" 'Tis Love That
Conquers
All the World.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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Luhmann's ingenious impulse was to show how growth in the performance capacity of subystems in modern 'society' - whether in politics, business, law, science, art, the church, sport, pedagogy or the health system - depends on a constant increase in its self-referentiality, to the point of its
transition
into a state of complete self-referential closure.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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How else to explain the following little joke, by a recent editor of the London Daily
Telegraph?
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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Pierre
finds the princess far exceeding all that had been said of her: in-
spired by her beauty, he enters the lists and
conquers
all his com-
batants, as much by his skill and agility as by his strength; and to
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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But if we are not to be led into false beliefs,
it is
necessary
to realise exactly _what_ the mystic emotion reveals.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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This libel he
declared
he had
cobbett's trials.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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My friends, ye who believe in
Dionysian
music,
ye know also what tragedy means to us.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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By examining the number of these causes, we can descend to the differentiation of powers or of effects produced by the first cause through the intermediate causes down to the closest and lowest ones, by restricting the
universal
cause, which, itself, does not attend to any one available
4 Aristotle, De anima, ?
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Este é um sono como o que pesa
inutilmente
sobrei o corpo nas grandes insônias da alma.
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Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
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All the riches of life and nature, all
antiquity—arts, mythologies and sciences—pass
before his eager eyes, his deepest desires are
aroused and satisfied, Helen herself can hold him
no
more—and
the moment must come for which
his mocking companion is waiting.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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We encourage the use of public domain
materials
for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Most
recently
updated: March 2, 2018.
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Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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writes word that she could not get the young lady to assign
any cause for her
extraordinary
conduct, which confirms me in my own
previous explanation of it.
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Austen - Lady Susan |
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Our
Christian
duty at all times apply
And give relief to the poor and sick, those who die.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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In other respects Pug exhibits only the
characteristics
of the
inheritor of the devil's comedy part, the butt or clown.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The paradox of egalitarianism had never been exagger- ated more convincingly than during the heyday of Bolshevism: the alpha dogs of classlessness achieved their plan to
accumulate
all of the power in their hands.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-26 05:03 GMT / http://hdl.
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Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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"sweet horror" that propels the baroness to sleep with her maid in the same
83
Others ridicule, while shuddering at the thought, the
Once the sublime takes shape, it
displays
a new side, from which
room.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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In broad outline, we may say that two oblique lines appeared
in the original
structure
of Weininger's personality make-up.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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The
Mahasamghikas
whom Samghabhadra refutes.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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God has plucked my
choicest
flower,
And many others, by the hour.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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" In
this respect, however, all shame has vanished—from
the public as well as from the Master's mind: he is
allowed, not merely to cross himself before the
greatest and purest creations of German genius, as
though he had perceived something godless and
immoral in them, but people actually rejoice over
his candid confessions and
admission
of sins—more
particularly as he makes no mention of his own,
but only of those which great men are said to have
committed.
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Nietzsche - v04 - Untimely Meditations - a |
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e half, or a
hundreth
of seche
1544 As I am, o?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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There is no evidence
that Ovid was specially adverse to the cult of
Apollo, which
symbolized
Augustus's cherished
ideals.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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Rossetti, we come to the great sonnet-
sequence named 'The House of Life'; a
brimming
century of poems,
which embody in splendid imagery and harmonious measure the
1
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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]
[Variant 4: Inserted in the
editions
1798 to 1820.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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He would clutch the wall
With his
bleeding
fingers, if she should fall
He could catch, and hold her, and make her live!
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Amy Lowell |
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Es ist ein Heidekrug, den am
Nachmittag
ein Be-
trunkener verla?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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Swift is at his best in these pieces of sincere affection for the
woman whom he loved
throughout
her life.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09 |
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The time is now propitious, as he guesses,
The meal is ended, she is bored and tired,
Endeavours
to engage her in caresses
Which still are unreproved, if undesired.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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What it does mean is that
like tends to mate with like--called
assortative
mating.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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The gold, silver, jewels and the land thus formed are brought together and piled in heaps by the winds which are
produced
by the force of actions.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
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Jungitur et
prteceps
mundus utrlique nive ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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How can I get
unblocked?
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Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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conse-
quences
attending
it were no less savour-
able to Ousanque, than they were; to the
child.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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Of her
learning
we have the testimony not only of Abelard but of the Abbe de Cluny and St.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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It seems to be a letter written by the
prisoner
to--to somebody.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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It is the busi ness of the
speculative
philosopher to mark the proper ends of government.
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Edmund Burke |
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For it will not worry itself about the past, nor care whether
things
happened
or did not happen.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Behind her burned
The sky, held by the open kiln of the town
In a great breath of fire, yellow and red,
From out the
festival
streets, and myriad links.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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le constitute a
peaceful
sub-game perfect equilibrium.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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awake, awake, utter a song: Arise Barak, and
lead
captivity
captive, thou Son of Abinoam.
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William Wordsworth |
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Whatever
in this peace was yielded to the Protestants was
always under condition.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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The great Dharma King sent them both three
measures
ofgold dust and seven bowls of gold and other gifts, asking for blessings and predictions.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And these six were the first rulers among them, who were all along making war with the Egyptians, and wanted gradually to
eradicate
them.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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The picture is drawn of a Soviet attack, say, on Greece or Turkey or West Germany, and the
question
is raised, would the United States then launch a retaliatory blow against theSovietUnion?
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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"And God alone knows what would become of us if feelings did not appear in swarms, these loves and hates and
sufferings
and goodnesses that give the illusion of being unique to eve:ry individual.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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Herman watched the proceedings with a curiosity not
unmingled
with
superstitious fear.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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as thou liv'st in all this sky and sea
That likewise
lovingly
do live in thee,
So melt my soul in thee, and thine in me,
Divine Tranquillity!
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Sidney Lanier |
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The bride crying
laughed, and laughing cried, because the catchpole was not
satisfied
with
drubbing her without choice or distinction of members, but had also rudely
roused and toused her, pulled off her topping, and not having the fear of
her husband before his eyes, treacherously
trepignemanpenillorifrizonoufresterfumbled tumbled and squeezed her lower
parts.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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And I and all the souls in pain,
Who tramped the other ring,
Forgot if we
ourselves
had done
A great or little thing,
And watched with gaze of dull amaze
The man who had to swing.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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Methinks
our virtue will hold out
till they come again.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
|
“Too steep:”—the slang expresses that defect of an ardent genius, carried
above itself, and out of the air we breathe, both in its
grotesque
and in
its gloomy imaginations.
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Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang |
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--why sleep you so
heavily?
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Hesiod |
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Men must recognise that they are subject to the Prince, and
must
reverence
the Emperor and Lord of the world, for he
rules over temporal things in God's place, and as men must do
what God commands, they must also accept the commands of
Caesar, " sine repugnatione.
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Thomas Carlyle |
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Quien haya sufrido tan bárbaro duelo,
Quien noches enteras contó sin dormir [870]
En lecho de espinas, maldiciendo al cielo,
Horas
sempiternas
de ansiedad sin fin.
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| Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Spenser - 1592 - Apologie for Poetrie |
|
There is
likewise
another river that runs by it, which, though
it is not great, yet it runs pleasantly, for it rises out of the same
hill on which the town stands, and so runs down through it and
falls into the Anider.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
|
It
lingered
in my heart but could not rise
The word that would have wrought the sweet surmise Which turns to godliness the common clay.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
|
Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-06-10 07:18 GMT / http://hdl.
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| Source: |
Jabotinsky - 1922 - Poems - Russian |
|
48 The Anonymous Poet of Poland
nation, lurking behind the unhappy boy's enforced out-
ward respect for an unworthy father, flashes out when in
answer to the trite question, "What had he been doing
with himself since
December?
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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10 After the
division
of the Macedonian empire among the followers of Alexander, he carried on several wars in the east.
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Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae |
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He was, however, of a restless disposition, and on coming to
Venice made the
acquaintance
of Fra Paolo and the seven, probably in
the hope that the Republic of Venice would be freed from the Court
of Rome.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
|
The
applause
of contemporaries, however, is not always justified by the
verdict of after-times, and does not always secure an immortality of
renown.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Whiter she is than Helen was,
The
loveliest
flower of May,
Full of courtesy, sweet lips she has,
And ever true word does say.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
|
But
SCIENCE,
GENETICS
AND ETHICS
31
?
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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And I flowed in upon thee, beat them off ; 1 have been
intimate
with thee, known
thy ways.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Ripostes |
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Eftsoones
he perced through his chaufed chest 375
With thrilling point of deadly yron brand,
And launcht his Lordly hart: with death opprest
He roar'd aloud, whiles life forsooke his stubborne brest.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Warlike
dissensions
arose between Maguire and the tribe of Torlogh Maguire.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
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But in experiencing these same delusions, the content of which re- inforced his
fantasies
of rescue, Father Luca was clinging tenaciously to his own life force, and at the same time warding off his basic fear.
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Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement
violates
the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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| Source: |
French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And finally the general public Was warned that political democracy could be preserved only if "economic power" were
distributed
among us, presumably in equal doses.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
'
Anoon
withouten
more delay,
Withouten daunger or affray,
I bicom his man anoon, 2035
And gave him thankes many a oon,
And kneled doun with hondis Ioynt,
And made it in my port ful queynt;
The Ioye wente to myn herte rote.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
|
Charles Krauthammer and other neoconservative ideologists describe the uni- lateralism of the United States, which is ready to kill, a little more
discreetly
as "democratic realism.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Rage |
|
Trông theo nào thấy đâu nào
Hương thừa
dường
hãy ra vào đâu đây.
| Guess: |
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
|
154 In a report to the Diplomatic Committee, Lazare Carnot suggested that the
simplest
means of establishing a universal republic would be "to establish within the bounds Nature has traced for us [such] prosperity [that] .
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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Immediately
he began to revile and
attack his enemy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
|
She showed the same love to all, to the servants as well as to her
spiritual
daughters, to beggars, and to the sick.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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Our greatest danger today may be that we yield too large a proportion of our professional world to the bare exchange of information through
electronic
media.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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But a new project occurred; he
must have
Robinson
Crusoe's parrot
in Robinson Crusoe's bower.
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Childrens - Frank |
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It steals the time
required
for the consumption of fresh air and sunlight.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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"
I bore it--bore it like a man--
This
agonizing
witticism!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
The length of time spent in
Blistering
is given as follows: if from eighty bushels ofsesame seeds one seed were removed each
?
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| Source: |
Kalu-Rinpoche-Foundation-of-Buddhist-Meditation |
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Well would it have been for me, perhaps, had I never relapsed
into the same mental disease; if I had continued to pluck the flower and
reap the harvest from the cultivated surface, instead of delving in the
unwholesome quicksilver mines of
metaphysic
lore.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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I doubt whether we can identify our- selveswithP&stan inquitethewaywecanidentifyourselves with Great Britain, no matter how many
treaties
we sign during the next ten years.
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
|
He
promises
his loyal
wife an immortality in song, with Alcestis and
Andromache, -- and, let us not forget, with
Corinna.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
|
"
In Will's time, waiters were not the smart spruce fellows as they are of the present day ; a clean white apron served all the
purposes
of a napkin to wipe the glasses ; and it is with this insignia of office, and a pair of snuffers pendent from the apron-string, that our little coffee-house politician is delineated.
| Guess: |
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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Everything
was so blissful that Chungawo was quite distracted from thoughts of his wife.
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_Apicius_
(cf.
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Satires |
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It was compromise that planted the seat of national
government on what was then the
rpalarial
banks of the Potomac.
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Alvin Johnson - 1949 - Politics and Propaganda |
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There is no doubt that
Virginius
is the
best acting tragedy that has been produced on the modern stage.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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The
Doctrine
should not.
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[85] When To-no-Chiujio had gone, Genji picked this
flower, and sent it to his mother-in-law by the nurse of the infant
child, with the following:--
"In bowers where all beside are dead
Survives alone this lovely flower,
Departed
autumn's cherished gem,
Symbol of joy's departed hour.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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Tolerance -- thus it ran -- may be
expected by Christians, but no
political
rights on
any account from a Sovereign who owes his throne
to the Osmans.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Grace Ellery
Channing
Stetson and the New York _Tribune_:--"_Qui
Vive_?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Bốn
phương
phẳng lặng, hai kinh vững vàng.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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In spite
of all the sentimentalism of the prisoners' aid societies, I
believe that a foreman will always be in the right if he chooses
an honest workman for a vacancy in his workshops in
preference
to
a discharged prisoner.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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Its uto- pian
formulation
warrants rational behavior toward different (predictable and unpredictable) future presents, at least in the form of coherent negation.
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As Christ in the parable of the rich young man
demands the abandonment of all treasures, so in this book the poet sees
the coming of the Kingdom, the fulfilment of all our longings for a
nearness to God when we have become simple again like little children
and poor in
possessions
like God Himself.
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Rilke - Poems |
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