The conceptoffascismis
difficultto
establishbecause it relates toa phenomenonthatismarkedbyparadoxes.
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On all sides the new sove reignty
revealed
itself.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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How could it have really got in brains like ours,
the brains of men of
aristocratic
ancestry, of men
of fortune, of men of good natural endowments, of
men of the best society, of men of nobility and
virtue ?
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
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It makes my blood boil like the springs of Hecla,
To see men let these
scoundrel
sovereigns break law.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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But it was an admir-
able preparation for
political
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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“Your brother will not mind it, I know,” said she,
“because
I heard him
say before that he hated dancing; but it was very good-natured in him
to think of it.
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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Now it was all over, and
he had literally nothing to do, no Party work of any descrip -
tion, until
tomorrow
morning.
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Orwell - 1984 |
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No
villainy
is about to be perpetrated.
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Sovoliev - End of History |
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Again, morals and right cannot be considered as
separate
things.
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Hegel Was Right_nodrm |
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94 Der Enthusiasmus der
romantischen
Tradition.
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Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
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You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
and
discontinue
all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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The Polish poet
Alexander
Wat revealed the logic of cold-blooded fury in his conversations with Czeslaw Milosz: "But blood in the abstract, blood you don't see, blood on the other side of the wall.
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Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- April 27, 1943
I think quite simply and definitely that the
American
troops in N.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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Des rencontres
comme celles de Gisèle n'étaient pas seules à
accentuer
mes doutes.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - v6 |
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The next poem to be
published
was 'Psalm', dedicated to Karl Kraus, which appeared in the issue of 1 October 1912.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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There are two divisions in this church yet visible --most
probably
the nave and choir.
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Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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The air of
passionless
hauteur charac-
teristic of the fine patrician face was there as of old, and so was
the Italian beauty, which the helmet rather increased; but more
- it may have been a jealous fancy, or the effect of the brassy
shadow in which the features were at the moment cast, still the
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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But to press too far
into it cannot but cause a dissolution and
overthrow
of the spirit of
man.
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Bacon |
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Nor is it every contribution, called voluntary, which
is
according
to the free will of the giver.
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copyright
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Meredith - Poems |
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Whenever you cross the line-
preferably
never, but the timing is up to you.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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“Cassidony”
: the Everlasting or Golden-Tufts.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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At Maxin I lost fifteen thousand men by pig-
headedness, and ignorance, because I did not see
that Marshal Daun had
advanced
with his army.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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As the sun got higher, their sleep became lighter, and so
they
gradually
one by one awoke.
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Dickens - David Copperfield |
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The
explanations
of fascism as nihilism (Rauschning, etal.
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When pleasant blasts gently stirred
the woods the motion of the branches made a continual delightsome
melody, like the sound of wind instruments in a solitary place: a
kind of clamour also was heard mixed with it, yet not
tumultuous
nor
offensive, but like the noise of a banquet, when some do play on wind
instruments, some commend the music, and some with their hands applaud
the pipe, or the harp.
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Lucian - True History |
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But, close behind,
I heard a voice, which, like the western wind,
That whispers softly through the summer shade,
These solemn accents to mine ear convey'd:--
"Man is a falling flower; and Fame in vain
Strives to protract his momentaneous reign
Beyond his bounds, to match the rolling tide,
On whose dread waves the long
olympiads
ride,
Till, fed by time, the deep procession grows,
And in long centuries continuous flows;
For what the power of ages can oppose?
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Petrarch |
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You will see me any morning in the park
Reading the comics and the
sporting
page.
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T.S. Eliot |
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First, as we have seen,
Epictetus
is cited explicitly in chapter 3 4 .
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Benevolence, yet lingering in a
few bosoms, makes some faint expiring struggles, till at length
self-love resumes his wonted empire and lords it
triumphant
over the
world.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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DESERT POOLS
I LOVE too much; I am a river
Surging with spring that seeks the sea,
I am too
generous
a giver,
Love will not stoop to drink of me.
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Sara Teasdale - River to the Sea |
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Who came in the
character
of a priest?
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The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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--Did you come
Only because you thought I might be
bullied?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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”
To
describe
the tone of utter despair, the recklessness as to
the effect her words would produce, is impossible.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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Tempore enim hiemis abor-
tus, mare et terras aquis et
tempestatibus
lurbat.
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Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary |
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[1153] Study all the signs
together
throughout the year and never shall thy forecast of the weather be a random guess.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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What guilty spirit, in what
shrubbery
dim,
Heard not the stirring summons of that hymn?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Aufflackert
ihr Sterne in meinen gewo?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF
CONTRACT
EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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HEALTH AND LIFE ARE' UP;
SICKNESS
AND DEATH ARE DOWN
He's at the peak of health.
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E'en as a furtive gift, sent, some love-apple, a-wooing,
Leaps from breast of a coy maiden, a canopy pure ; 20
There forgotten alas, mid vestments silky reposing,
Soon as a mother's step starts her, it hurleth adown :
Straight to the ground, dash'd forth ungently, the gift
shoots headlong ;
She in tell-tale cheeks glows a
disorderly
shame.
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Narsinga
here in num'rous legions bold,
And here Oryxa boasts her cloth of gold.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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18 It is the daily line of writing that forms the artist, the daily self-denial that forms the ascetic, the daily
encounter
with the power needs of other humans that forms the diplomat, and the
321
THE EXERCISES OF THE MODERNS
daily joy at the willingness of children to be stimulated that forms the teacher.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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They have not
perished
- no!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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--my
thoughts
do twine and bud
About thee, as wild vines, about a tree,
Put out broad leaves, and soon there's nought to see
Except the straggling green which hides the wood.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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copyright
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Quand du regard il
rencontrait
sur sa
table la photographie d’Odette, ou quand elle venait le voir, il avait
peine à identifier la figure de chair ou de bristol avec le trouble
douloureux et constant qui habitait en lui.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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SLOTERDIJK: We should never forget that acts of terror like September 11 or the
explosions
in Atocha Station in Madrid are closely related to the Western entertainment industry.
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Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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I brake thy
bracelet
'gainst my will, II.
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From this conclusion emerges modern
`chemical
war', as an attack on the vital functions of the enemy that depend on the environmento?
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About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it
universally
accessible and useful.
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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For he shall not persuade his father that the Lemnian thunderbolt of Enyo – he the sullen bull that never turned to flee – smote his own bowels with the gift of his
bitterest
foe, diving in sorrowful leap on the sword’s edge in self-wrought slaughter.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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"Then madness took him, and men declare
He mowed in the
branches
as ape and bear,
And last as a sloth, ere his body failed,
And he hung as a bat in the forks, and wailed,
And sleep the cord of his hands untied,
And he fell, and was caught on the points and died.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I call anything else that goes to make up the content of a sentence the
colouring
of the thought.
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As the Sun with glory and grace
In his face,
Benignantly
hot,
Graciously radiant and keen,
Ready to rise and to run,--
Not without spot,
Not even the Sun.
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Even the world admires,
When age, expiring, for a moment totters
Upon the marble margin of a tomb,
To see a wife--a pure and dove-like angel--
Watch over him, soothe him, and endure awhile
The useless old man, only fit to die;
A sacred task, and worthy of all honor,
This latest effort of a faithful heart;
Which, in his parting hour,
consoles
the dying,
And, without loving, wears the look of love.
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I, a two-formed poet, will be
conveyed
through the liquid air with no
vulgar or humble wing; nor will I loiter upon earth any longer; and
superior to envy, I will quit cities.
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Horace - Works |
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In between, the thought crosses her mind: "Between
Nietzsche
and Wagner stood Jewry!
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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There are many natural harbours along the Malabar
coast all the way from Bombay southward, but the
precipitous
and forest-
ed Western Ghāts impede communication with the interior.
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Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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With an vntitled Tyrant, bloody Sceptred,
When shalt thou see thy
wholsome
dayes againe?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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If we had a quick voyage it would be no
to our miscredit wi' the owners, or no hurt to our traffic; an' the Old
Mon who had served his ain purpose wad be
decently
grateful to us for no
hinderin' him.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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VI
In Reading gaol by Reading town
There is a pit of shame,
And in it lies a
wretched
man
Eaten by teeth of flame,
In a burning winding-sheet he lies,
And his grave has got no name.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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rissable, elle jette un regard en arrie`re , vers les
<<
plaisirs
terrestres et vers ses compagnes mortelles.
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was
standing
up
In the black dock's dreadful pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
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Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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A little boy and girl whose mother was ill
and inaccessible were overheard by their aunt
holding the following
pathetic
consultation on
the subject of their nurse's unkindness to them:
"What shall we do?
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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Moreover, the dual meaning of reality both as an operation that
actually
occurs, that is, is observable, and as the reality of society and its world which is generated in this way, makes it clear that the concepts of operational closure, autonomy and construction by no means rule out causal influences from outside.
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He exalted Heracleia, and
included
praise for Tius and Amastris, the city which she had founded in her name.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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He won 50,000
sesterces
29 times; of these, one was with a seven-horse team.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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Upon the banks a scurf
From the foul steam condens'd,
encrusting
hung,
That held sharp combat with the sight and smell.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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”
“How
delightful
that will be!
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Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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When first my courser's race begun,
I wished the goal already won;
But now I doubted
strength
and speed:
Vain doubt!
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Byron |
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If one takes their function as seri- ously as is absolutely necessary in the face of their significance for the material
equipping
of modern existence, one observes that what they offer is frequently no less than world improvement in discreet amounts - such as the late medieval invention of eyeglasses, without which reading and living in the Gutenberg era would have been inconceivable.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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After what has been said, it should now be
apparent
why, within the scope of such a theory, such significance is attached to the post-war period of all things for moderating and controlling cul- tural units.
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It is outside finan-
cial advice which the
railroad
needs.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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None of your fine
speeches!
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Of his freedom he is proud,
And scorns those strict
restraints
all men must bear
Who hope to govern others.
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Many acts are called bad
that are only stupid, because the degree of
intelligence
that decided
for them was low.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Talkingtree
and sinningstone stay on either hand.
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Finnegans |
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And thus
This canst thou guarantee: soul's primal germs
Maintain
between them intervals as large
At least as are the smallest bodies, which,
When thrown against us, in our body rouse
Sense-bearing motions.
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Lucretius |
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Whether he thun-
dered against British tyranny on the seas, or urged the recog-
nition of the South-American sister republics, or attacked the
high-handed conduct of the military chieftain in the Florida war,
or advocated protection and internal improvements, or assailed
the one-man power and spoils
politics
in the person of Andrew
Jackson, or entreated for compromise and conciliation regarding
the tariff or slavery; whether what he advocated was wise or
unwise, right or wrong, there was always ringing through his
words a fervid plea for his country, a zealous appeal in behalf of
the honor and the future greatness and glory of the republic, or
an anxious warning lest the Union, and with it the greatness and
glory of the American people, be put in jeopardy.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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A brief narra- tive of the history of
European
technology should entail nothing less.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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Add one thing more, and all thou sayest is true ; Thy want and wish of them is
vanished
too :
Which, well considered, were a quick relief
THE BUGBEAR OF DEATH.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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All choices and actions issued from the self have their own causes and conditions, but there is a way to
transcend
it all.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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Cicero wrote in vain
that his forces were insufficient to resist the Parthians, an invasion
by whom appeared imminent: the consuls refused to occupy the Senate with
his claims, because they were
unwilling
either to go themselves to
undertake so distant a campaign, or to permit others to go in their
place.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - b |
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And thus the German is
not to be judged on any one action, for the indi-
vidual may be as
completely
obscure after it as
before.
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We lack a
dependable
clock in the sky.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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And Aspasia, the friend of Socrates, imported great numbers of
beautiful
women, and Greece was entirely filled with her courtesans; as that witty writer Aristophanes relates [ Acharn_524 ], saying that the Peloponnesian war was excited by Pericles, [570] on account of his love for Aspasia, and on account of the girls who had been carried away from her by the Megarians.
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Athenaeus - Deipnosophists |
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And so I have shown
you whence the first and
chiefest
delight of man's life springs.
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Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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But bringing close to him her visage fair, She
whispered
: —
" Smite not, for thou hast no sword,
Speak not above thy breath, for one loud word
May slay both thee and me.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Liddell Scott -1876 - An Intermediate Greek English Lexicon |
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In this new part, Ulysses saw his two and twenty friends represented as sitting on cushioned and canopied thrones,
greedily
devouring dainties and quaffing deep draughts of wine.
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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The prison truly found we shut with all diligence, and the keepers
standing
at the door; but when the prison was opened, we found none within.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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That must have prompted the Papal cryptographerto reply that his tedious labor of replacing letter after letter with yet other letters would, alas, not be so easy to
mechanize
as print- ing presses or the printer's case.
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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A BULL FIGHT
A procession of noble boys, fantastically dressed as _toreadors_, came
out to meet her, and the young Count of Tierra-Nueva, a wonderfully
handsome lad of about
fourteen
years of age, uncovering his head with all
the grace of a born hidalgo and grandee of Spain, led her solemnly in to
a little gilt and ivory chair that was placed on a raised dais above the
arena.
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What if I file this mortal off,
See where it hurt me, -- that 's enough, --
And wade in
liberty?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Epeius of Phocis has given unto the man-goddess Athena, in requital of her doughty counsel, the axe with which he once overthrew the upstanding height of god-builded walls, in the day when with a fire-breath’d Doom he made ashes of the holy city of the Dardanids and thrust gold-broidered lords from their high seats, for all hew was not numbered of the
vanguard
of the Achaeans, but drew off an obscure runnel from a clear shining fount.
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Pattern Poems |
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org
We
apologize
for this inconvenience.
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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Wilt thou then serve the
Philistines
with that gift
Which was expresly giv'n thee to annoy them?
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