In this case the
following
formula is valid: The more mod- ern, the more postmodern.
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Sloterdijk |
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The popular resistance to socialism, when presented to our people in its pure state, under a clear and simple label, has niade it necessary for its
advocates
to resort, more or less un- consciously, to a whole series of linguistic frauds.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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EEEii
I',ieE t
iEiEiiaEg?
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Luhmann-Love-as-Passion |
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But there is also a deeply
inescapable
kind of fence-sitting, which I shall call PAP (Permanent Agnosticism in Principle).
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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She
hath
perished
for ever.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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In such an inquiry, had we nothing to fall back upon but the chaotic mass of names of tribes and the
confusion
of what professes to be historical tradition, the task might
Lapps
cuAr.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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He had soon, to the
great diversion of the whole court, been drawn away from his plain
consort by a plainer mistress,
Arabella
Churchill.
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Macaulay |
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The old round with its four stages will
certainly
pass again.
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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Nature well known, no
prodigies
remain,
Comets are regular, and Wharton plain.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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'These
buttercups
shall brim with wine
Beyond all Lesbian juice or Massic;
May not New England be divine?
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James Russell Lowell |
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But were it
evident that unless we permit the Lacedaemonians to
overturn all Peloponnesus, we never can be able to
obtain this city, I should think it more eligible (if I
may so speak)
absolutely
to resign our pretensions
to Oropus, than to abandon Messene and Pelopon-
nesus to the Lacedaemonians.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Such “resolves of the multi tude” (pleh’ sa'ta) were not indeed strictly valid decrees of the people; on the contrary, they were at first little more than are the resolutions of our modern public meetings ; but, as the
distinction
between the comitia of the people and the councils of the multitude was of a formal nature rather than aught else, the validity of these resolves as autonomous determinations of the community was at once claimed at least on the part of the plebeians, and the
Icilian law for instance was immediately carried in this way.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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) formed a standard for the future, is shown by the facts, that the dis tribution of Asia into forty districts is
referred
to Sulla (Casslodor.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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By
interrogating
thought like this you can ?
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Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
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These are the reasons, too, why mothers are fonder of their
children
than fathers; bringing them into the world costs them more pains, and they know better that the children are their own.
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Aristotle copy |
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I can't tell;
I wish she had: his book 's the
eleventh
commandment,
Which says, 'Thou shalt not marry,' unless well:
This he (as far as I can understand) meant.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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& his hHorse proudly neighd; he smelt the battle
Afar off, Rushing back, reddning with rage the [[Eternal]] Mighty Father
Siezd his bright Sheephook studded with gems & gold, he Swung it round
His head shrill
sounding
in the sky, down rushd the Sun with noise
Of war.
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Blake - Zoas |
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For in the
presence
of his favourite, a man would choose to do anything rather than to get the reputation of being a coward.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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By a Monarch's heaven-struck fate,
By a disunited State,
By a
generous
Prince's wrongs.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Lo, the blaze
aspires!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Unfortunately
the systems staff will not be available until Monday, to apply fixes.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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Oungk<'lr Lobsang
Thrinley
(d.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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We are told that it will grad-
ually lead to the
recapture
of important
French and Belgian towns, and so we
believe.
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Jabotinsky - 1917 - Turkey and the War |
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39
This
temptation
is particularly strong in France.
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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142 Zeit ohne
Leidenschaft
/ Zeit fuer Balzac [December 13, 2013]
9.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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Who indeed as a girl was allured to the asperity of
monastic
conversation not by religious devotion but by thy command alone.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great
misunderstanding
of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Patrick, and called Midgna,3 whom he placed in
a hermitage called Disert Phadrig, while near it was a
fountain
and a church,
at a place called Cros Phadruig, in the western part of Ireland.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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A woman, too,
At the heavy castor drowses back in chair,
And from her
delicate
fingers slips away
Her gaudy handiwork, if haply she
Hath got the whiff at menstruation-time.
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Lucretius |
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All night long a vague wonder, born of
sleeplessness and intolerable discomfort, kept
stirring
m Dorothy’s mind Was
this the life to which she had been bred-this life of wandering empty-bellied
all day and shivermg at night under dripping trees?
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Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Chimene
Since life and honour then prove far too weak
To stop you
hastening
to your death, Rodrigue,
If ever I loved you, take revenge on me,
Defend yourself, from Don Sanche so wrest me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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'Thus are we wholly at the disposal
of His will, and our present and future
condition
framed and ordered
by His free, but wise and just, decrees.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Men were converted
to no other thing then to the Beleef of that which the Apostles
preached: And the Apostles preached nothing, but that Jesus was the
Christ, that is to say, the King that was to save them, and reign over
them eternally in the world to come; and consequently that hee was not
dead, but risen again from the dead, and gone up into Heaven, and should
come again one day to judg the world, (which also should rise again to
be judged,) and reward every man
according
to his works.
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Hobbes - Leviathan |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The
Princess
of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a gurgling spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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Ronsard |
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Nevertheless, he did refer to his own project as a theory: his task "is a question of forming a different grid of historical
decipherment
by starting from a different theory ofpower" (1990a: 90-91, emphasis added).
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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He thought
the Review had chosen its points of attack ill, as there must
doubtless
be
in every institution so old much to reprehend and carp at.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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”
He tasted, then, astonished, raised his head:
"But truly, this is
precious
wine,” he said.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 to v30 - Tur to Zor and Index |
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I have already hinted that the three supremacisms
correspond
to three extremisms that should be understood as three ways of overcoming resistance to a union with the One and Only.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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Butwhilethis
essen-
tial attribute of national sovereignty is claimed, a similar dis-
cretion is evinced, as to the extent to which this power should
be exercised.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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uni- versities, closely resembles the early modern
connection
between territorial states and academic mail systems (to pass over the structural identity be- tween middle Latin and my own pidgin English.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
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»
Quod cum fieret, et Dominus, et famuli, et ancillæ, a domo properantes,
forte obliti, infantem in cunis jacentem secum non auferent, Dæmones incip-
iunt commessari et vociferari, prospicereque per fenestras formis ursorum,
luporum, felium, et
monstrare
pocula vino repleta.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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HE MEGARA,
TRANSLATED
BY J.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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If anyone asks, say it was forgotten
Long and long ago,
As a flower, as a fire, as a hushed footfall
In a long
forgotten
snow.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow |
|
However, if you provide access
to or distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format
other than "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official
version posted on the
official
Project Gutenberg-tm web site
(www.
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The mouth cannot be sure
Of tasting anything in its bite
Unless your
princely
lover cares
In that mighty brush of hair
To breathe out, like a diamond,
The cry of Glory stifled there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:55 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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And
dreadful
the blast of the trumpet.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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And, of course, Plato's Academy closely followed this pattern,2 except for the fact that it almost totally excluded women,3 and established a long-lasting model up to the
nineteenth
century, when Oberlin College and Zurich University both rediscovered coeducation.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
|
To give some idea of what it could mean for a concept to be metaphorical and for such a concept to structure an everyday activity, let us start with the concept ARGUMENT and the conceptual metaphor
ARGUMENTIS
WAR.
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| Source: |
Lakoff-Metaphors |
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At last we came home, and she told her company next
day what a
pleasant
ride she had been taking.
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
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It should not only mean to change something in its
13
Sigmund Freud and Derrida
appearance, but also: to take it to a
different
place, to shift it elsewhere.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
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The state of Israel
proclaimed
in 1948 secularized the motif of tested survival.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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It is no
laughing
matter; THAT
ABOMINABLE MAHDI!
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| Source: |
Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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"
But even at that age my
language
was not understood--and great was
my astonishment.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Professor
Freud dis-
cussed the book with his friend and patient, Dr.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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The advocates of the con-
solidation
of power realize that consolidation may as well lead to Fascism and slavery as to the Promised Land, Nor are all of them too keen about the position of the individual man in the Soviet Union, although the Soviet's gallant resistance to the Hitlerite invasion has made it rather bad form, to discuss the status of power and freedom in the U.
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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Peace will descend on us, discord will cease;
And we, now so wretched, will lie
stretched
out
Free of old doubt, on our cushions of ease.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
|
It is
included
among Donne's_ Elegies _in
A18, A25, B, Cy, D, H49, JC, L74, Lec, N, O'F, P, S, S96, TCC,
TCD, W.
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Donne - 1 |
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Who would not have wept his woe over the dire tale of
Cypris’
love?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Bion |
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[Here, you might] object, "As for the fact that the Five Stages and the
Integrated
Practices, for the sake of that one who has achieved the magic body and aims for the clear light, state the private instructions of the predawn after midnight initiation [as] two enlightenments and two contemplations, is it that you can produce the objective clear light in that
very predawn, or not?
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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It is true, that from this a half- yearly rent' is drawn back, accruing from the dividends upon the stock: but as this rent arises from the employ- ment of the capital, by our own citizens, it is probable, that it is more than replaced by the profits of that employ- ment It is also likely, that a part of it is, in the course of trade; converted into the products of our country: and * it may even prove an incentive, in some cases, to emigra- tion to a country in which the character of- citizen is as easy td be acquired, as it is
estimable
and important.
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Much of the
constructive
philanthropy
of to-day must deal directly with the child,
the improvement of his conditions being the direct objective.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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There came a
drooping
maid with violets,
But the spirit grasped her arm.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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But the description as crisis would presuppose that it is
possible
to react by changing structures.
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| Source: |
Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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God's house is the Church: as yet it
contains
evil men, but the beauty of God's house is in the good, is in the holy : this beauty of Thine house have I loved.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
|
A more relaxed relationship does not necessarily become a more intellectually and aesthetically
productive
one.
| 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 |
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_The Young Daimyo_
When he first came out to meet me,
He had just been girt with the two swords;
And I found he was far more
interested
in the glitter of their hilts,
And did not even compare my kiss to a cherry-blossom.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Fletcher - Japanese Prints |
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For as moderate distress gives vent to tears, so excessive sorrow checks them, since that grief itself is as it were made void of grief, which by
swallowing
up the mind of the person afflicted, takes away the sense of grief.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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Some degree of self-approbation is always the reward of diligence; and I
cannot, therefore, but consider the laborious
cultivation
of petty
pleasures, as a more happy and more virtuous disposition, than that
universal contempt and haughty negligence, which is sometimes associated
with powerful faculties, but is often assumed by indolence when it
disowns its name, and aspires to the appellation of greatness of mind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
|
His versatility is shown in the rare combination of
sentiment with the most
practical
and clear view of affairs.
| 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 |
|
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst - North of Boston |
|
What provision of the
Constitution
may not be changed
by amendment except with the consent of the State con-
cerned?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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» Nous étions
arrivés
dans des
quartiers plus populaires et l'érection d'une Vénus ancillaire
derrière chaque comptoir faisait de lui comme un autel suburbain au
pied duquel j'aurais voulu passer ma vie.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
|
Philocrates
made his Defence ;.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
|
It is true that transcendental consciousness arises in a particular phase of our history and civilization, in a particular situation; but it is also true that, once arisen, it
manifests
itself as a constituting and not a constituted thing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Live |
|
Of course I don't know the present
situation
in China.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
|
First, the assembling of several individuals of typical capacity
never affords a guarantee of collective capacity, for in
psychology a meeting of individuals is far from being equivalent
to the
aggregate
of their qualities.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
|
The raids that began in the fall of 1943 by B-29's based in China, and supplied entirely by air transport over the "hump" from India, were on much
too small a scale to have
strategic
significance.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
|
Between
ourselves, it is not at all
necessary
to get rid of "the soul" thereby,
and thus renounce one of the oldest and most venerated hypotheses--as
happens frequently to the clumsiness of naturalists, who can hardly
touch on the soul without immediately losing it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
|
He was afraid that these horribly
distressing
screams might get even louder, and re- membered that such a fit might be stopped by an angry shout or .
| Guess: |
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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Onecouldalmostdrawaclosedcurvedline on a globe with
everything
inside it Soviet bloc and everything outside it not.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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His impatient looks devour
Oft the humble and the poor;
And, seeing his eye glare,
They drop their few pale flowers,
Gathered with hope to please,
Along the
mountain
towers,--
Lose courage, and despair.
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Emerson - Poems |
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That which had
been deemed almost impossible —that a conservative should
take up the reforming ideas of the Gracchi, and should become the champion of equal rights for the Italians—had nevertheless occurred ; a man of the high aristocracy had resolved to emancipate the Italians from the
Sicilian
Straits
to the Alps and the government at one and the same time,
and to apply all his earnest zeal, all his trusty devotedness
to these generous plans of reform.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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’ Finally, through
In a strenuous meditation,
his sheer ‘urge for the highest’,3 Abraham arrives at the concept of an absolutely sublime,
powerful
and otherworldly God who rules over the stars and thus transpires as the foremost, mightiest, only god.
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Sloterdijk - God's Zeal |
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I love to see the cottage smoke
Curl upwards through the trees,
The pigeons nestled round the cote
On November days like these;
The cock upon the
dunghill
crowing,
The mill sails on the heath a-going.
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John Clare |
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"--"Dare
you vent your
insolence
on me, convicted felon that you are?
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Scriptori Erotici Graeci |
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And when I sing my songs my
neighbours
come not to listen.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I see no way by which man can escape from the
weight of this law which pervades all
animated
nature.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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Foucault
develops a very original reading of Socrates by reading Xeno- phon, Plato and Plutarch jointly as sources on Socrates' character and way of life.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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As has been
very truly said, “the situation was such that the different parties, ap-
plying pressure in different directions,
paralysed
one another and stopped
the wheels of the chariot of state.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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This head-strong Writer, falling from on high,
Made
following
Authors take less Liberty.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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Darcy, it
determined
her not to attend her
cousins to Rosings, where they were engaged to drink tea.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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The French army had
effaced the disgrace of their defeat at
Deutlingen
by a brilliant
campaign, and had kept the whole force of Bavaria employed upon the
Rhine and in Suabia.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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Flaunt away, flags of all
nations!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The tragedy that has
befallen
the speaker's people, at the hands of a stronger party, is chiastically echoed in the final eagle-simile used to characterize the speaker's mount, in which a bird of prey strikes and brutalizes a fox, pillaging his heart to take to her eyrie.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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The
professor
began to juggle gravely with the terms pure science and
applied science.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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But
you’ve
got that deep-
down mystical feeling that somehow a man without money isn’t worthy of you.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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