Titles of this kind may be attractive for
superficial
reflection and useful for public rela- tions, but they can hardly accompany any serious interest.
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Useless
remedies
abandoned
if nature
wished it not
I would
take myself
for one dead
balms mere
consolations for us
- doubt
then not, their
reality!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Have forth and call the yeomen out,
For somewhere,
somewhere
close about
Full soon a Thing must come to be
Thine honest eyes shall stare to see --
Full soon before thy patriot eyes
Freedom from out of a Wound shall rise.
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Sidney Lanier |
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[Note on text:
Italicized
stanzas are indented 5 spaces.
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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These are the days when birds come back,
A very few, a bird or two,
To take a
backward
look.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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towards the head of
Windermere
and Ambleside.
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William Wordsworth |
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Wiseman's installation did mean, in
fact, a new move in the Papal game; it meant an advance, if not an
aggression--a
quickening
in England of the long-dormant energies of the
Roman Church.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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From the pale
primrose
or gold-colored furze-broom,
I discover thy blue gems, spread so lowly
Beneath some solitary thorn adown the valley,
Hardly rearing thy head from the ground.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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' If, as they saw nothing but
‘false
wit,' 'awkward
numbers' and so forth, in the one case, he sees nothing but senti-
mentality and 'jingle,' in the other, then we can class him and
find him wanting.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v13 |
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For Example, do you think the love of
Exercises
is as good, as it is fine, or are you of Opinion that it is neither fine nor good ?
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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Any steady servant of a friend of his was soon
considered
as a sort of friend
too, and was sure to have a kind little colloquy to himself at coming and
going.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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^^ Inconjunction,pro- bably, with his
disciple
St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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Thirdly, the type of
investigation
that appears in this speech, as Sinnius Capito suggests, which is part of the duty and practice of a senator.
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Roman Translations |
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The fertile ground for cynicism in
modernity
is to be found not only
in urban culture but also in the courtly sphere.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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The volume
referred
to here is prob- ably Finanzia nuova, which Pound trans-
103.
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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Finally, in order to remove all disturbing recollection of the Apostolic struggles out of the way of the union of
parties desired by both sides, the Acts of the Apostles gave an ideal picture of the Apostolic age, in which the two party
Jewish
Epistle of James, so far made
concession
to the followers of Paul that spite of its rejection of Paul's doctrine of justi
?
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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I would fain
Reply in hope--but I am worn away,
And Death and Love are yet
contending
for their prey.
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Shelley copy |
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The discussion of the first six
occupied
two days.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
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As for will and
testament
I leave none,
Save this: "Vers and canzone to the Countess of
Beziers
In return for the first kiss she gave me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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A serene and
passive calm with the absolute clearness and distinctness of
successive impressions, in each of which he was for the time wholly
absorbed, are the
peculiar
characteristics of Goethe.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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But in my
experience
it's the other
way round.
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The Trial by Franz Kafka |
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As the teacher of thinking self-perception, he removed himself and his
students
into a theoretical sanatorium where no other measures were on the agenda other than exercises of clarification in the purest air of detailed descriptions.
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Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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" "But what was this
mistake to which your ladyship so often
alludes!
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life
composed
so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it .
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T.S. Eliot |
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χλαίναν δεν έχω• και ο θεός μ' εγέλασε να μείνω
με τον χιτώνα•
τώρα
πλειά πώς θα σωθώ δεν βλέπω».
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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When the
creation
was new and all the stars shone in their first
splendour, the gods held their assembly in the sky and sang 'Oh,
the picture of perfection!
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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The idea of killing off the
incorrigibles
and the born criminals
is easily conceived, and Diderot, in his Letter to Landois,
maintained that it was a natural consequence of the denial of
free-will, saying: ``What is the grand distinction between man
and man?
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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n de la
conexio?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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Men, women, in crowds
Hurry on--the fire shrouds
And blinds all their eyes
As,
besieging
each gate
Of these cities of fate
To the conscience-struck crowd,
In each fiery cloud,
Hell appears in the skies!
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Hugo - Poems |
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which was
concealed
behind
' Mr.
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Fletcher - Lucian the Dreamer |
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Especially does he
admire this passage, wherein the author, after a long discussion, ends in
these terms: "If, as pretend the
philosophers
of old time, who are also
the greatest and most illustrious, we have a soul immortal and divine, it
behoves us to think, that the more it has persevered in its way, that is to
say, in reason, love, and the pursuit of truth, and the less it has been
intermingled and stained in human error and passion, the easier will it be
for it to raise itself and soar again to the skies.
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Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
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"
"Yea, Lord, I hear his carol's
wordless
voice;
And well may he rejoice
Who hath not heard of death's discordant noise.
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Christina Rossetti |
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, Schillers Macbeth
mit dem
Original
verglichen, Trautenan, 1889.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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"My finger, pointed
at this man, would have hurled him from his pulpit into a
dungeon,--thence, peradventure, to the
gallows!
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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To what extent is this
practice
followed
in the United States?
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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of conscience
associated
with all that
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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My heart was filled with a deep
Melancholy
to see several drop-
ping unexpectedly in the midst of Mirth and Jollity, and catching
at every thing that stood by them to save themselves.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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The things were
magnified
by the water in the tumbler, and they
were grinning at me like the teeth in a skull.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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By historical I
understand
ad hoc the unity resulting from the tragedy enacted and written, as well as the unity resulting from the epic both enacted and written.
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| Question: |
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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The curved brow of
Apollo was like the sun's disc
crescent
over a hill at dawn, and his feet
were as the wings of the morning, but he himself had been cruel to
Marsyas and had made Niobe childless.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I see thee gracefu',
straight
and tall,
I see thee sweet and bonie;
But oh, what will my torment be,
If thou refuse thy Johnie!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:17 GMT / http://hdl.
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Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
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Taste, however,
gradually
formed itself.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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19
You walked by the
riverside
path with the full pitcher upon your
hip.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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When that knowledge dawns, he
directly
enters (the 'bhumi').
| Guess: |
What didst thou say, Word: Submit |
| Question: |
Question: Submit,question,question |
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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—634),
faithful
allies of Rome in the third 156-120.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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In 1869
Missouri
sent him to the
United States Senate, where his service was both solid and brilliant.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
|
9 He then pitched his camp at the
distance
of five miles from Carthage, that they might view from the walls of the city the destruction of their most valuable possessions, the devastation of their lands, and the burning of their houses.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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The three reorganized banks have an average 25 percent capital adequacy ratio and NPLs are below double digits, but earnings are
thwarted
from low demand and steep operating expense.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kleiman International |
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» (Elle dit cela comme si elle m'avait reconnu tout de
suite dans le salon, mais la vérité est qu'elle m'avait reconnu dans
la rue et m'avait dit bonjour, et plus tard Mme de
Guermantes
me dit
qu'elle lui avait raconté comme une chose très drôle et
extraordinaire que je l'avais suivie et frôlée, la prenant pour une
cocotte).
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| Question: |
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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As we have shown, these simplifying
assumptions
work well for broad aggregates such as the S&P 500 and over the long run; but they are not very useful for shorter periods of time and/or when applied to narrower clusters of capital.
| Guess: |
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Nitzan Bichler - 2012 - Capital as Power |
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He was accused of being exces- the son of Claudius Felix, once
governor
of Judaea,
sively addicted to the pleasures of the table, of perished with his wife.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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He himself is recognized by Peleus on
reaching
the Molossi.
| Guess: |
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Hesiod |
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Then the democracy conquered in questions of principle, and in return for that victory conceded the highest offices of state to its two
confederates
; now it had become more practical and grasped the supreme civil and military power for itself, while concessions were made to its allies only in subordinate points and, signifi cantly enough, not even the old demand of Pompeius for a second consulship was attended to.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Two
generations
of analysts as well as patients have been plagued by the tendential confusion of the secretive with the uncon- scious.
| 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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"
This said,
Patroclus
to the battle flies;
Great Merion follows, and new shouts arise:
Shields, helmets rattle, as the warriors close;
And thick and heavy sounds the storm of blows.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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t This Paper was one of those
published
three times a-week, " on the evenings of the inland post nights.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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No me ha quedado suficiente mente claro qué son diadas o espacios surreales multipolares, por no
647
hablar ya de que supiera reproducir cómo viven los pueblos bajo sus así lla mados baldaquinos imaginarios, las culturas ciudadanas tras sus muros in munizantes y las poblaciones
liberales
en sus invernaderos del mimo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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"
The
Tortoise
said quietly, "I accept your challenge.
| Guess: |
woman; unicorn; President; |
| Question: |
What is the challenge? Who challenged the Tortoise? |
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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Such
difference
doth a few months make.
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| Source: |
Bryon - Don Juan |
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QUEEN'S SACRIFICE 349
sured brain weight in an attempt to develop an ideal of each sex-con- cede that "in actual
experience
neither men nor women exist," but only the mixed relationships or differential differences to which quantitative description alone does justice.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
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"
"That is all I want," said Candide, "for I
intended
to marry her, and I
still hope to do so.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Candide by Voltaire |
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A wild story of
struggle
for faith and freedom in the Balkan penin-
sula.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1922 - Polish Literature in Translation, a Bibliography |
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It also holds for the difference between the expectations of a critical elite and what the
population
at large is able to understand,
is therefore a typical product of memory: it has forgotten most
--it seeks to create a kind of "requisite variety" in the cybernetic
reach as a (recognizable) quotation, work is put together.
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| Source: |
Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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When it was too much taken notice of, that the
king himself had not that esteem or consideration of
the council that was due to it, what they did or or-
dered to be done was less valued by the people;
and that disrespect every day improved by the want
of gravity and justice arid constancy in the proceed-
ings there, the resolutions of one day being reversed
or altered the next, either upon some
whispers
in
the king's ear, or some new fancy in some of those
counsellors, who were always of one mind against
all former orders and precedents ; the pride and in-
H 4
104 CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF
1666.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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'' What
unconceals
itself (must not always but) can be brutally overwhelming.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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community of the Brethren of the Common Life, that is to say, a reli- gious community whose objective, whose ascetic ideal, was very clear, since its founder, someone called Groote, was closely linked to Ruysbroek the Admirable, and
therefore
well informed about the four- teenth century movement of German and Rhenish mysticism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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), without any attempt on the part of editors or
commentators
to
reduce it to the form of a verse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Satires |
|
Most developing counties were not an
imminent
risk but often flashed warnings with the measures, which will always be cast within the global market structure on near-term shifting ground, the Bank suggests.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kleiman International |
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Just as our little earth, so far as we can guess,
is the noblest body in the solar system, so this ancient
multiform Europe, on however great a scale international
intercourse may take place, and in any conceivable future,
will always remain the heart of the world, the home of all
creative culture, and
therefore
the place where all the
important questions of political power will be decided.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - Life and Works |
|
8
Luhmann and Derrida
rising from it only for
repeated
burials.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
|
The dense
untouched
forest over-
hung both banks of the crooked little crack, and one could
believe that human creatures had never intruded there before.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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They simply put them with the other documents and
point out that, for the time being, questioning and observing the
accused are much more
important
than anything written.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Trial by Franz Kafka |
|
Only when these verdicts have all been written down and sealed will the
randomizing
codes in the computer be broken.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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When I arrived, however, I found already assembled
on the pier a crowd, whom the
coastguard
and police refused to allow to
come on board.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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It is by Helice that the
Achaeans
on the sea divine which way to steer their ships, but in the other the Phoenicians put their trust when they cross the sea.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aratus - Phaenomena |
|
The social
ostracism
and ridicule he had to
face cannot have disturbed his lofty soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
|
Mưu hì* nhún lác, trơ quây
đồỉ
sang.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Phong-hoá-tân-biên-phụ-Huấn-nữ-ca.ocr |
|
Her fingers fumbled at her work, --
Her needle would not go;
What ailed so smart a little maid
It puzzled me to know,
Till
opposite
I spied a cheek
That bore another rose;
Just opposite, another speech
That like the drunkard goes;
A vest that, like the bodice, danced
To the immortal tune, --
Till those two troubled little clocks
Ticked softly into one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
|
When I recount thy
worshippers
of yore
I tremble, and can only bend the knee;
Nor raise my voice, nor vainly dare to soar,
But gaze beneath thy cloudy canopy
In silent joy to think at last I look on thee!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
Sweet friend, for me now go to the window
And gaze on the stars from earth below
And see how I am your true
messenger!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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rable proportion of those who are properly the money lend- ers of a country, who, from that spirit of caution which usually
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this description of men, will incline rather to vest their funds in mortgages on real estate, than in the stock of a bank, which they are apt to consider as a moreprecarious security.
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Jean Justice and Amy Tatko then
meditate
on two places--Charlotte, North Carolina, and a high school class- room in Vermont.
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For we know that the Jews were at that time hated of all the world, and especially of the Romans, and with hatred was coupled extreme
contempt
of them.
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But such
generalities
upon foreign historians are empty with out some fuller justification for the writer's impressions.
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S , Russia and the Peace, The
Macmillan
Company, N.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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Et vacuum Zephyri
possidet
aura nemus.
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Latin - Bradley - Key to Exercises in Latin Prosody and Versification |
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With throat unslack'd, with black lips bak'd
Agape they hear'd me call:
Gramercy!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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' After they had expressed their delight, he gave orders that the best
quarters
near the citadel should be assigned to them, and that preparations should be made for the banquet.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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_On the Banks of the Sumida_
Windy evening of autumn,
By the grey-green swirling river,
People are resting like still boats
Tugging
uneasily
at their cramped chains.
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John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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That sword
Shrink into a
sceptre!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Waves were welling, the
warriors
saw,
hot with blood; but the horn sang oft
battle-song bold.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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It would
presently
pass.
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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though his artless strains he rudely sings,
And throws his hand
uncouthly
o'er the strings,
He glows with all the spirit of the Bard,
Fame, honest fame, his great, his dear reward.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Neither the
creative nor the militant artist in him was ever
diverted from his purpose by
learning
and culture.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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T' arrest the
fleeting
images, that fill
The mirror of the mind*--
* Cowper, Task, book 2.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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Their drop of white blood is the
sole asset
they’ve
got.
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