Whatever
was needful for his friends when going to Pompeius, he supplied for them out of his own property.
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Roman Translations |
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These are my triumphs of the Latian war, Fruits of my
plighted
faith and boasted care!
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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Then, by permission from the Gods obtain'd, 100
To the Achaian Chiefs in circus met
Thetis
appointed
games.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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" To follow my meaning, think of what takes place, when for the first time at a
distance
one sees something in the landscape, such as a shrub or a heap of wood, at the moment when one does not yet know what " it " is.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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National
character
of the movement.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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While the bulk of the
garrison of Gergovia was occupied in intrenching the side
on which the assault was expected, the Roman general watched his
opportunity
to surprise another access less conveniently situated but at the moment left bare.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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Yet, right at the outset, there is an
obstacle
in our path.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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IX
I stood upon a high place,
And saw, below, many devils
Running, leaping,
And
carousing
in sin.
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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The
religion
is mine no longer--O thou, the cruel
idol of my soul.
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Stories from the Italian Poets |
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The
surrealist
took a hearty dislike to that humble cer- tainty on which the stoic based his ethics.
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Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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It is not proper for learned observors to forsake the Lord's words which comprise scriptures Cagama') and logic ('yukti') and accept the words of
ignorant
fools.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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After all, it is
courage in the face of reality that
distinguishes
such
natures as Thucydides from Plato: Plato is a coward
in the face of reality-consequently he takes refuge
in the ideal : Thucydides is master of himself,-
consequently he is able to master life.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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xii
distanced assessment of his position in the field of
contemporary
theory.
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Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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Thorpe, impatient for praise of her son, “I hope you have had
an
agreeable
partner.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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inevitable
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Seek ever to stand in the hard
Sophoclean
light And take your wounds from it gladly.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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45 / 117
Aryadeva - The
Treatise
of the Four Hundred Stanzas on the Yogic Deeds of Bodhisattvas [3.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 17:24 GMT / http://hdl.
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Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
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I can tell thee, that this Rehearser is not half so
terrible
a sellow as thou tak'st him to be !
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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The
artistic
effort to surpass itself could not turn into arbitrariness; it had to satisfy criteria of judgment.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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Inasmuch as it persists, it remains in a kind of proximity, a proximity that preserves what is remote as remote by commemorating it and turning its
thoughts
toward it.
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Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
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To which
is added, His
Metrical
Autobiography, &c.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
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I refer at present both to omissions and
commissions
of a more
important nature.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria copy |
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The more her words were questioned, the more she defended her captors ("I was like a fighting lion"); but the entire experience was deeply
disturbing
to her ("It was hell!
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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" The "capitalism" of the West arose from
specific
historical premises.
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Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography |
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The animal is more inclined to slip off the bait if it be full inside;
if it be empty it is
difficult
to shake it off.
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Aristotle |
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Far be it from me to desire you to believe them, or lay any great stress upon their authority, (in that you may do as you think fit) but to read them as a piece of necessary
furniture
for a wit and a poet; which is a very different view from that of a Christian.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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3:
Communist
China (New York: Vintage, 1967), 378-79- 508.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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In clouds descending, in midnight sleep, of many a face in battle,
Of the look at first of the mortally wounded, of that indescribable look,
Of the dead on their backs, with arms
extended
wide--
I dream, I dream, I dream.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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In his time, a Roman army and tribunes and propraetor were
destroyed
beyond the Rhine.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Smashed to bits,
Rescued by flight alone, he is as careless
As a simple child; 'tis clear that Providence
Protects
him, and we, my friends, will not lose heart.
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| Question: |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
|
The bomb is not one bit more evil than reality and not one bit more
destructive
than we are.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
|
Thinkest
thou that a dead man shall live again?
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| Source: |
St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
|
Sharon Turner himself cannot rank as a great historian;
and it might, perhaps, be
questioned
whether his proper place is
among historians at all.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v14 |
|
"
When Coriolanus, almost like one bewildered, rushing in consternation from his seat, offered to embrace his mother as she met him, the lady, turning from
entreaties
to angry rebuke, says : " Before I receive your embrace, let me know whether I have come to an enemy or to a son ; whether Iam in your camp a captive or a mother?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v02 |
|
In drafting the final version of the poem 'Psalm', Trakl adds a line which adopts precisely the redemptive
perspective
he denies himself in other poems: 'Schweigsam u ?
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| Source: |
Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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There were
isolated
readers who sensed that something promising was at work in this little book, but,
its immediate effect was to make its author appear to be as far his profession was ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
|
His
book is truer than history; for while based on
historical
records, it
reflects with life and color, not alone outward fact but also the work-
ings of minds and hearts.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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I have vowed the same
to the particular commodity of my kinsfolks and friends: to the end,
that losing me (which they are likely to doe ere long), they may
therein find some
lineaments
of my conditions and humours, and by
that meanes reserve more whole, and more lively foster the knowledge
and acquaintance they have had of me.
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| Question: |
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
|
'
"False tears true pity move; the king commands To loose his fetters, and unbind his hands:
Then adds these
friendly
words: 'Dismiss thy fears; Forget the Greeks; be mine as thou weft theirs.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
|
"You promised to tell me your history, you know," said Alice, "and why
it is you hate--C and D," she added in a whisper, half afraid that it
would be
offended
again.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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as we glide along,
For him suspend the dashing oar,
And pray that never child of Song
May know his
freezing
sorrows more.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Wherefore to no little amazement thine oblivion moves the tender beginnings of our conversion, that neither by reverence for God, nor by love of us, nor by the examples of the holy Fathers hast thou been
admonished
to attempt to comfort me, as I waver and am already crushed by prolonged grief, either by speech in thy presence or by a letter in thine absence.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
|
Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as Public Domain in the U.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
|
The chain wends its way up the beach, into the arid scrubland and
westwards
on towards the Kenya border.
| 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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Thou maruell'st at my words: but hold thee still,
Things bad begun, make strong
themselues
by ill:
So prythee goe with me.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
|
Yet, in good faith, some say that thee behold,
Thy face hath not the power to make love groan;
To say they err I dare not be so bold,
Although
I swear it to myself alone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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YE flaming Powers, and winged
Warriours
bright,
That erst with Musick, and triumphant song
First heard by happy watchful Shepherds ear,
So sweetly sung your Joy the Clouds along
Through the soft silence of the list'ning night;
Now mourn, and if sad share with us to bear
Your fiery essence can distill no tear,
Burn in your sighs, and borrow
Seas wept from our deep sorrow,
He who with all Heav'ns heraldry whileare 10
Enter'd the world, now bleeds to give us ease;
Alas, how soon our sin
Sore doth begin
His Infancy to sease!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Milton |
|
69
Come due belle e generose parde
che fuor del lascio sien di pari uscite,
poscia ch'i cervi o le capre gagliarde
indarno aver si veggano seguite,
vergognandosi
quasi, che fur tarde,
sdegnose se ne tornano e pentite;
così tornar le due donzelle, quando
videro il pagan salvo, sospirando.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
|
Vous êtes
ami de Robert
Forestier
et de Suzanne Delage.
| 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 |
|
An analysis and synthesis of
Domesday
Book.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v5 - Contest of Empire and the Papacy |
|
He advocates an exploratory form of cognitive psychotherapy which does not merely require exposure to the feared stimulus, but also encourages self-exploration so that emotions and the relationships which evoke them can begin to be linked together in a
meaningful
way.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bowlby - Attachment |
|
We who are
immobile
both see and know.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Yet there was present one person who still
wept for her, and this was Niobe's
illustrious
brother Pelops.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
|
sed quid non audeat annus 480
Eutropii
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
|
For there is no
chance or accident which does not give scope for the
exercise
of some
virtue, or for the employment of a special faculty.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Friedrich Schiller |
|
The swamp was subsequently named Da* Trach*, the
province
Tu'* Nhiên, the town Hà Mau*.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thiyen Uyen Tap |
|
Natural man is
replaced
by social man, or by the property-owning person, and all the inequalities which are maintained in his name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Education in Hegel |
|
The
harlot halts outside the city of Erech with the
enamoured
Enkidu,
while she relates to him the two dreams of the king, Gilgamish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
|
It is only by slow degrees that the people
generally
can reach Freedom of Thought.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
|
Your IP address has been
automatically
blocked from the address you tried to visit at www.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Devils |
|
"unharmed of the water" : the salt water was
supposed
to rot the hoofs of oxen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Moschus |
|
, "Anglo-French
Commercial
Rivalry, 1700-1750: the
Western Phase," Am.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
|
I’m
finished
with this notion of getting
back into the past.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
|
Both looked
repeatedly
at that
very world, which Anaximander had condemned in
so melancholy a way and declared to be the place
of wanton crime and at the same time the peni-
tentiary cell for the injustice of Becoming.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
|
Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
He
unlearns
all his useless modesty,
and turns little by little into the "man" or the
"graybeard" of Hartmann.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
|
And we,
departing
when the sun is low,
And the cicala hushed, which now alone
Is heard, shall bring her where her father keeps
I' the Spanish camp; meanwhile the lady sleeps.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
|
It may be recalled that from 1965 to 1967, an attempt by International Telephone and Telegraph (lIT) to acquire ABC was frustrated following a huge outcry that focused on the dangers of allowing a great multinational corporation with
extensive
foreign investments and business activities to control a major media outlerY The fear was that ITT control "could compro-
mise the independence of ABC's news coverage of political events in countries where lIT has interests.
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| Source: |
Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
|
stert vom Schlummer des Laubs, dem dunklen
Gold
verfallener
Sonnenblumen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Dichtungen |
|
One cardamom means
"jealousy;" but when any article is
duplicated
in an object-letter,
it loses its symbolic meaning and stands merely for one of a number
indicating time, or, if incense, curds, or saffron be sent also,
place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
The
relations
between Author and Publisher
in the Seventeenth Century.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
|
There came one who
understood
not these things.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
|
I was struck most by her
voice, wherein I found the remembrance of the most
delicious
contralti,
as well as a little of the hoarseness of a throat continually laved with
brandy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
So soon as repose from terror came to his freed 201
CLAUDIAN
et rigidae sedere comae, non distulit atrox
iussa deae ; sociis, quae viderat, ordine pandit 235
Coniurat barbara pubes nacta ducem
Latiisque
palam descivit ab armis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
|
' An imme~ and bewildering grab-bag of fag-endo of philooophy, wrillen in a
naively
thrilling
and pugnaciouJ tone wlliclt mwt haw: pIe'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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The concept of the Anti-Train became a symbol of a life-force
allowing
for the witnessing of the genocide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
|
The good air of the
Euganean
mountains failed to re-establish the health
of Petrarch.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
|
By the word
“unhistorical”
I mean the power,
the art of forgetting, and of drawing a limited
horizon round one's self.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
|
37) that both
explanations
of the word vipaka are correct.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
|
HE MEGARA,
TRANSLATED
BY J.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Megara and Dead Adonis |
|
This conception now seeks to be defined, and this, in
addition to the tendency to extend itself, is the
objective
ground
of a requirement of speculative reason, namely, to have a more precise
definition of the conception of a necessary being which is to serve as
the first cause of other beings, so as to make these latter knowable
by some means.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
|
The Congress reaction to this “virulent repression unworthy of
a civilised government” was its decision at the Ahmedabad Session
of the Congress in 1921 to start
individual
and mass civil disobe-
dience.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
|
"
To any one interested in the present
condition
and
future prospects of the world's relations with the
Soviet Union this debate in Commons must be of in-
terest.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1931 - Fighting the Red Trade Menace |
|
- Many a long-buried gem
sleeps in shadowy oblivion
far from
pickaxes
and drills:
in profound solitude set,
many a flower, with regret,
its sweet perfume spills.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
|
That Saint Ernan belonged to the northern half of Ireland; and, he appears to have been distinguished, as one of the clerics, to whom the Roman clergy addressed a
celebrated
letter,* in reference to the Paschal controversy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5 |
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Thine is the
plentiful
bosom that feeds us,
Thine is the womb where our riches have birth.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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" In reality, however, Egypt's power in
proportion
both to Israel alone and to the rest of the Arab World has gone down about 50 percent since 1967.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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The establishment of absolute power
may have been a
necessity
for the State,--all writers
seem to agree in saying so.
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Ovid - 1865 - Ovid by Alfred Church |
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The motive for
honouring
a pledge can be found only in man ; for a woman does not understand the binding force of a given word.
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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By February 1945, the Ruhr was just about
completely
iso- lated.
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brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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Thus, I
am
necessarily
a man of Fate.
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Nietzsche - v17 - Ecce Homo |
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It is preserved in his Precis de decomposition, this book of peculiar
exercises
that, as I intend to show, formulates the true charter of modern 'culture' as an aggregate of undeclared asceticisms - a book that exceeds any binding.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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In gret mischeef and sorwe sonken
Ben hertis, that of love arn dronken,
As thou peraventure knowen shal, 5115
Whan thou hast lost [thy] tyme al,
And spent [thy youthe] in ydilnesse,
In waste, and woful lustinesse;
If thou maist live the tyme to see
Of love for to
delivered
be, 5120
Thy tyme thou shall biwepe sore
The whiche never thou maist restore.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Thence
they made the perilous journey by land to their place of starting,
and finally reached
Marseilles
eleven months after their voyage
began.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v02 - Aqu to Bag |
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Nothing can show more plainly the necessity of doing something, and the
difficulty of finding something to do, than that Butler was reduced to
transfer to his hero, the flagellation of Sancho, not the most agreeable
fiction of Cervantes; very suitable, indeed, to the manners of that age
and nation, which
ascribed
wonderful efficacy to voluntary penances; but
so remote from the practice and opinions of the Hudibrastick time, that
judgment and imagination are alike offended.
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Samuel Johnson - Lives of the Poets - 1 |
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Secondly, the very concept of
occultism
carries with it the
idea that knowledge must be a secret thing, limited to a small circle of initiates.
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Orwell |
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Even if you were to have met me in person, I would have had no
superior
advice to give you, so bring it into your practice in every moment and in every situation.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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“I cannot see that London has any great
advantage
over the country, for
my part, except the shops and public places.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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