He decided in favour of Thetis, whereon Medea said,
“Cretans
are always liars” and cursed them that they should never speak the truth.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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Past the maze of trim bronze doors,
Steadily
we ascend.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The 'little pretty lady' seems to
have reciprocated his fondness, for she said that Prior made
himself loved by every living thing in the house-master, child,
servant,
creature
or animal.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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His conception
of what moral life should be is at the same time
broader and
stricter
than that of his predecessors.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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6 And the soothsayers, when they
commended
his birthday to the favour of the gods, declared that he would some day hold the supreme power, because some sacrificial victims were brought in from a farm of the Emperor Severus, which the tenants had made ready in order to do honour to the Emperor.
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Historia Augusta |
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And
dreadful
the blast of the trumpet.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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At length his
success imboldened him to declare those
intentions
which he had long
entertained secretly against the Olynthians.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Haec amem necesse est,
Ut
Veranniolum
meum et Fabullum.
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Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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Whatever occurs and whatever you experience, strengthen your
conviction
that they are all insubstantial and magical illusions, so that you can experience this in the bardo as well.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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They know perfectly well that never in the history of this country have they had less influence in
Washington
than since 1932, and they are not too certain that their influence there will increase appreciably in the forseeable future.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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But if you crown our prefent Therfites, do you
not imagine, the Grecians will treat you with the utmofl: De-
rifion and
Contempt?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
|
Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Aryan Civilization - 1870 |
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Ferte citi ferrum date | tela J scandite muros
( tela -- diastole before the SC, though per-
haps independently of those consonants; as the
pause between the two unconnected sentences
might here be
supposed
to have the same effect
on the final syllable of the foot, as it has on the
final syllable of a verse.
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Latin - Carey - Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana |
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3 His bringing into Macedon the
embassies
from Peloponnesus, &c.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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To a certain extent the dream is a
restorative for the brain, which, during the day, is called upon to meet
the many demands for trained thought made upon it by the
conditions
of a
higher civilization.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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She scolded him for
carrying
on like a little savage, and tried to teach him some respect for Diotima, Arn- heim, and the great honor of having a share in the.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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What is
difficult
to grasp about this work is not only its "content," if it has such, but also its very character as a work.
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| Question: |
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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It is quite impossible for a man NOT to have
the
qualities
and predilections of his parents and ancestors in his
constitution, whatever appearances may suggest to the contrary.
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Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Even Porrex his yonger sonne, Whose growing pride sore suspect,
That being raised equall rule with thee,
Mee thinkes see his envious hart
swell,
Filled with disdaine and with
ambicious
hope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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By thus anticipating our affections, he employs
a kind of
violence
which is the more powerful, as it is perfectly
conformable to our natural inclinations.
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| Question: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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mediator between my
unconscious
.
| Guess: |
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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There is reason to regard the invective exchanged in the late seventies and early eighties between intellectuals who suddenly
206 Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
sought to be 'postmodern' and their opponents who remained commit- ted to the modernist project as
symptomatic
of the rapidly shifting chronotope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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| Question: |
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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Universal Polemic, Machiavelli would
conclude
that the developmental conflict has been neutralized by an externalized, distorted hegemonic conflict.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
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And as one sees most fearful things
In the crystal of a dream,
We saw the greasy hempen rope
Hooked to the blackened beam,
And heard the prayer the hangman's snare
Strangled
into a scream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I
gathered
roses redder than my gown
And played that I was Saint Elizabeth,
Whose wine had turned to roses in her hands.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
|
According
to whether one is to be born male or female, one feels attachment and aversion to the mother and father.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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C'est une terrible connaissance, moins par
les souffrances qu'elle cause que par l'étrange
nouveauté
des
restrictions définitives qu'elle impose à la vie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie - v1 |
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When in Rome he formed a friendship with many eminent men of
letters, and his own
writings
attracted much attention.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v10 - Emp to Fro |
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ties, ni les miracles; mais il en
vint apre`s eux un grand nombre qui voulurent donner une ex-
plication toute naturelle a` la Bible et au Nouveau Testament, et
qui,
conside?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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Rhetoric's imperialism has reached such a pitch recently that critical alarms have been sounded, urging 'attenuations' of its epistemic claims and challenging its
ambitions
as a 'uni- versalized,' 'promiscuous,' 'free-floating' 'interpretive meta-discourse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Public Work of Rhetoric_nodrm |
|
When Keppler had discovered the har-
monic laws that regulate the motion of the
heavenly bodies, it was thus that he expressed
his joy:--" At length, after the lapse of
"eighteen months, the first dawn of light
"has shone upon me; and on this remark-
"able day I have
perceived
the pure irradia-
"tion of sublime truth.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Germany |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
|
Have we hit rock bottom or are we still going down
further?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
|
On the left was Ariaeus, Cyrus's second in command, and the rest of the
barbarian
host.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v04 |
|
Carthage had imposed her sovereignty upon all the ancient
Phœnician establishments in this part of the world, and had levied
upon them an annual contingent of
soldiers
and tribute.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
|
Unless you prepare
yourself
with the attitude that your death could happen at any time, you cannot achieve the great aim that is surely needed at the time of death.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
|
Blocks
automatically
expire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - The Idiot |
|
He was
unmistakably
making up to the
mamma.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
|
But it did not die away, it grew more and
more distinct,--a shambling step that curiously stopped at
intervals
and
kicked the fallen leaves.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
|
"
In the Bhdsya of the third line, Paramartha says, "By chu ft (sthiti) one should
understand
subhaikdgrya, because chu ft is another name for samddhi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
|
For God's
possible
is taught by His world's loving,
And the children doubt of each.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
|
10*— Vổ nữ công, là phải biết maf vá thẬu dệt nẩu ân, náu uống :
Tử dảy uỏl đến
TỈỘC
nhồ,
\in con châm c ĩ, nghe mà giữ lo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
|
Though God be our true glass, through which we see
All, since the being of all things is he,
Yet are the trunks, which do to us derive
Things in
proportion
fit, by perspective
Deeds of good men; for by their living here,
Virtues, indeed remote, seem to be near.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
|
And in
Brandenburg and Prussian
Pomerania
Junkertum retained
its grip on the government.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robertson - Bismarck |
|
can embrace my dear and beloved Brother and
Companion
with more Joy in the Field of suffering, than ever could have done, had met him crowned with the Lawrels of Victory the Mercy to die with such a Friend, and such a valiant Souldier of Jesus, who hath kept his Garments clean.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
|
;
Pomifer |
autum|nus
fru|ges ef|fuderit; | et moi.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
|
59 Carl Dallago, 'Otto
Weininger
und sein Werk', Der Brenner, 3 (1912/13), 1-17 (p.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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To Coleridge there was as much
difficulty
in belief as in action, for
belief is itself an action of the mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
|
Never, my dearest Alicia, was I so
provoked
in my life as by a letter
this morning from Miss Summers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
|
The
sambhogakaya
here is said to be the lord of all beings on earth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
|
It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
|
In short, as [Longcenpa has said] in the Great Chariot (shing-rta chen-
mo):
On the path, one would not require the two
provisions
of the greater vehicle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
|
You must be a
sentimental
old bachelor for my sake.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
|
293
Review of Gell's
Geography
of Ithaca, etc.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
Connectedness in fact
provides
something of a scheme for classifyingcompellentthreatsandactions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
|
Where is the work of your home-born
sculptors
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
|
How Rockefeller became acquainted with Gates, why he decided to make him his
philanthropolic
adviser, is a revealing story.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
|
) tout le loisir de la questionner,
prolongeait son
déshabillage
dans sa chambre.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
|
However, he seems not
consistent
in his subsequent account of our St.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
|
"
Zeitschrift
filr Betriebswirtschaft (1938), pp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Brady - Business as a System of Power |
|
"God
never, nowhere,
conceived
it, for Himself everywhere and ever
liveth.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
|
Didn't you
yourself
tell me repeatedly that there is no greater hap- piness for human beings than to make others happy?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
|
Is it not ordered
cleverly?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Amy Lowell |
|
He was also, through his mother, the grandchild of that Publius Scipio who
conquered
Hannibal and the Carthaginians.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
|
As though it were said in plain words; ‘Let Him come, Who, that He may snatch from the death of the flesh and of the spirit, us, that are debtors thereto, may, though no debtor,
discharge
the death of the flesh.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
|
1
2
2-3
3
4
4
: : :
5
::
The four sub-continents of Asia
Ceylon ; Colombo, the strategic centre of British sea-power in the Indian
Ocean
The Malabar and Coromandel coasts ; the Western and Eastern Ghāts
The Carnatic ; Travancore ; Cochin
The Gap of Coimbatore or Pālghāt
The plateau between the Ghāts; Mysore
Climate of the southern extremity of India
Madras ; some causes of the comparative isolation of southern India
Burma, the connecting link between the Far East and the Middle East
The geography of Burma
The geography of Bengal
Calcutta
Countries of the Himālayan fringe
Valley of the Brahmaputra
The Plain of the Ganges and Jumna
Central India
The situation of Bombay
The Marāthā country ; Hyderābād ; the Deccan plateau
The Central Provinces ; Baroda
:
Kāthiāwār and Cutch
The Himālayan barrier
Rājputāna ;
historical
importance of the great Indian desert and the Delhi
0
Gateway
The north-west frontier
The plain of the Indus
Routes leading into N.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v1 |
|
)
There is a tourney toward; your enemy
Has
challenged
you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Helen of Troy |
|
Quaenam te mala mens, miselle Ravide,
Agit
praecipitem
in meos iambos?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
|
If all rebellions were to be successfully repressed today and forever, free-market autoc- racy's violence against humanity would be with us more unre-
strained
than ever--as is indeed happening.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
|
Islamism, in
its turn, appeared
immensely
superior amidst the debased reli-
gions of Asia.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
|
After doing much literary
work abroad, he
returned
in 1734 to Paris.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
|
77)
The fateful days of the German
revolution
lasted from January 9 to 12, 1919.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Critique-of-Cynical-Reason |
|
Ein-
brach ein roter Schatten mit flammendem Schwert
in das Haus, floh mit
schneeiger
Stirne.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Trakl - Dichtungen |
|
Objection 1: It would seem that one can be
compelled
by one's father's
command to marry.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Summa Theologica |
|
It is true, that the bodies of the
faithfull, after the
Resurrection
shall be not onely Spirituall, but
Eternall; but in this life they are grosse, and corruptible.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hobbes - Leviathan |
|
Do you wish her named by some slanderer
As
receiving
the murderer of her father?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
|
The robin is the one
That
speechless
from her nest
Submits that home and certainty
And sanctity are best.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
|
Only for the
carriers
in this place of reality is their conscience free for acting based on individual reason.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
|
Gorm and Murrogh with their
combined
forces and a large fleet sailed to Wales, and, having plundered the
country, they took away an immense quantity of silver and other booty, but Murrogh having attempted to appropriate the spoils himself, Gorm resisted, and they fought great battle, which
Murrogh was defeated.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
|
However
a few designing men may rise in consequence, and advance
their private interests by such expedients, the people at
large are sure to be the losers in the event, whenever they
suffer a departure from the rules of general and equal just-
ice, or from the true principles of
universal
liberty.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
|
not dazzled with their noontide ray,
Compute the morn and evening to the day;
The whole amount of that
enormous
fame,
A tale, that blends their glory with their shame;
Know, then, this truth (enough for man to know)
"Virtue alone is happiness below.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
|
I liked him as much for his
terrible
ill
temper, as for his happy knack at making a blunder.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
|
Call her back,
Torvald!
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
|
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English Scholars of Paris
crusade, nor wrote its history; he paid his fine and he stayed at
home to help the king to keep the peace in his native land, and
to write the
Itinerary
and the Description of Wales.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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These set upon us with two ships
furnished
and fought with us, and
wounded many, casting at us instead of stones the seeds of those
gourds.
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Lucian - True History |
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But, though he
borrowed
with
equal freedom from Euripides, Tasso, and Shakespeare, his efforts
were almost uniformly unsuccessful.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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Had not my feelings decided against
you--had they been indifferent, or had they even been favourable, do you
think that any
consideration
would tempt me to accept the man who has
been the means of ruining, perhaps for ever, the happiness of a most
beloved sister?
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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Virtue could not be anything but sensuality if it were
the
entertainment
of our senses and fond desires; and Apicius
had been the noblest of all the Romans, if feeding and great ap-
petite and despising the severities of temperance had been the
work and proper employment of a wise man.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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No more doll's
decorations
for me!
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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sujeto
quanto puede alcanzar limite humano,
porque es locura hablar en lo secreto
Del pecho
inescrutable
soberano ,.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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2 Liah Greenfeld rightly remarks that "to say that
nationalism
is the modern religion has become a cliche?
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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And that I was a maiden Queen
Guarded by an Angel mild:
Witless woe was ne'er
beguiled!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Marcus' project was di erent: he was writing r himself To translate or to adapt
terminology
would distract him om his goal.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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"
"But I have already mastered the second part; only I wished to stand
firm and unshaken--as firm when asleep as when awake, as firm when
elated with wine as in
despondency
and dejection.
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Epictetus |
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SpIrIts struck the nIght watches
they say CHUNTI Invented thIs clockwork
The Red Caps called theIr candIdate Mmg Ouan as If emperor
Left
monkhood
and put manhood on
to end the lme of GhengIz khan
Yuentchang ceased bemg hochang took Ito Yen wIthout pIllage
and passed over Klang rIver
conquered the TalpIng prOVInce
Comet m Tchang star, over Tal Mlng shone the meteor broom-shaped
Mmg commg out of South Country, In 35 years' dIssolution CHUNTI ceased from the throne
DIed YukiOU of more than ten wounds Now m Chang-tou was rUIn
the hIgh house of KUBLAI cast down Came MIng slowly, a thousand, an hundred thousand
the pIrate Kouetchln came to hun
At court, eunuchs and grafters
among mongols no man trusted other The empress' folk In Corea kIlled off kmg Peyen Of MING were now 2.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Until then Hitler's personal hold on the Reichswehr cannot be
regarded
as absolutely secure in any and every emergency.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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Photographs
of
all phases of Soviet life.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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'Twas he whom, amid nightly shades,
Whilst
Morpheus
his approach delays,
She mourned and to the moon would raise
The languid eye of love-sick maids,
Dreaming perchance in weal or woe
To end with him her path below.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Yes, you are
dripping
like a mermaid; pull my
cloak round you: but I think you are feverish, Jane: both your cheek and
hand are burning hot.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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