The true problem of bad faith stems
evidently
from the fact bad faith is faith.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Man, even in very inferior
degrees of civilization, does not stand in the presence of nature as a
helpless slave, he is not willy-nilly the
absolute
servant of nature.
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Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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Armossene il pagano il capo e il collo,
che non lasciò, pel duol ch'avea, di torlo;
pel duol ch'avea di quella che gli sparve,
come sparir soglion
notturne
larve.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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O thou goodly cask, that wast brought to light at the same time with me
in the consulship of Manlius, whether thou containest the occasion of
complaint, or jest, or broils and maddening amours, or gentle sleep;
under whatever title thou
preservest
the choice Massic, worthy to be
removed on an auspicious day; descend, Corvinus bids me draw the
mellowest wine.
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Horace - Works |
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Muốn ghi chép văn vật thật đầy đủ,
dường
như còn phải đợi thời.
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stella-02 |
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The break that occurs i n metanoia i s thus a kind o f
renunciation
or sacrifice of the self, of one's "old" self, in the name of truth and salvation (ibid.
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Foucault-Key-Concepts |
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Mother or any of
the shopkeepers’ wives would have died of shame if
they’d
had bugs in the house.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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He could be characterized as the earliest example of declassed or
plebeian
intelligence.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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178), andthatoccasionally
theycondemnedtheJewsas
themurdererosfChrist.
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Nolte - The Nazi State and the New Religions- Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity |
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"
`But tel me now, sin that thee
thinketh
so light
To chaungen so in love, ay to and fro, 485
Why hastow not don bisily thy might
To chaungen hir that doth thee al thy wo?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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This winter, however, I have made many
revisions
and now
it plays well enough to give me pleasure.
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Yeats - Poems |
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Wittgenstein goes on to investigate this seeming
presentness
o f the future in the machine as symbol: "When does one have the thought: the possible movements o f a machine are already there in it in some mysterious sense?
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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He was of middle
size and of
ordinary
build.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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The concept of the Anti-Train became a symbol of a life-force
allowing
for the witnessing of the genocide.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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4 And so Aemilianus was
constrained
to assume the imperial power, knowing well that he would have to die in any event.
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Historia Augusta |
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And in
this way my thesis is to be
understood
and con-
## p.
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Nietzsche - v05 - Untimely Meditations - b |
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And the
distinction
is not quite so much against the
candour and common sense of the world as appears at first; for a very
narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper.
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Austen - Emma |
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Robert would even like to equalize some opportunities for Negroes-up to a certain point-so that they may be
encouraged
to suppress passive wishes and acquire a "goal in life.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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In many cases, this type of subjectivity's manifested through the assertion and
construction
of an "I" that acts as a "voz de la tribu" (Ca?
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Trakl - T h e Poet's F ad in g Face- A lb e rto G irri, R afael C ad en as a n d P o s th u m a n is t Latin A m e ric a n P o e try |
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)
The
fragments
over into nothingness,
With tears unavailing
Bewailing
All the departed beauty.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The
wondrous
night the pensive King revolves.
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Marvell - Poems |
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_With a Portrait of
Nathaniel
Field, from the Picture at Dulwich College.
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Thomas Otway |
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naval vessels that could have led
straightforwardly
into general war.
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Schelling - The Manipulation of Risk |
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The Romans may have been sufficiently
familiar with
tradition
to take these matters for granted.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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Gods are fond of ridicule: it
seems that they cannot refrain from
laughter
even
in holy matters.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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But we with silks, not cruels,
With sundry
precious
jewels,
And lily-work will dress thee;
And as we dispossess thee
Of clouts, we'll make a chamber,
Sweet babe, for thee,
Of ivory,
And plaster'd round with amber.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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While it is
difficult
to explain why all that electronic discussions produce, at best, is a level of intel- lectual mediocrity, we all know that this is the case - and somehow inevitably.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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Seumas O'Sullivan
condescends
to publish the 'sheet' Alba,
he didn't like the anthrax.
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Samuel Beckett |
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Antipathetic to the French Revolution, he
travelled
to North America in 1791.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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Seeing the bottom of the boat turned upwards, Finbarr suspecting the cause called the inhabitants of the surround- ing
district
to come armed with pikes and forks.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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And with all their craft and cunning,
All their skill in wiles of warfare,
They perceived no danger near them,
Till their claws became entangled,
Till they found
themselves
imprisoned
In the snares of Hiawatha.
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Longfellow |
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To
Zephyrus
(West Wind)
81.
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Orphic Hymns |
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"
We doubt if even the most uncompromising advocate oi "industrial democracy" would wish such
decisions
to be made by a vote of the government employees engaged in producing iron and steel.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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That will neuer bee:
Who can
impresse
the Forrest, bid the Tree
Vnfixe his earth-bound Root?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
This
powerful
appeal was in vain.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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Daumier, gravé
d'après le remarquable
médaillon
de M.
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Baudelaire - Les Epaves |
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And I know thy foot was covered 5
With fair Lydian
broidered
straps;
And the petals from a rose-tree
Fell within the marble basin.
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Sappho |
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_1072
Argo]Argos
edition 1822.
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Shelley copy |
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It either assumes something concerning reality and Being, as these had become known in some other sphere--that to say, as were impossible to ascribe the opposite
attributes
to or the proposi tion means: that the opposites should not be ascribed to it.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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The
distinction
between writers and e?
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Foucault-Live |
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DƯƠNG CHẤP TRUNG 楊執中7
người
huyện Kỳ Hoa phủ Hà Hoa.
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stella-02 |
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For a public as functionally
illiterate
as our own, scientific socialism must be watered down to a few slogans.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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+ Keep it legal
Whatever
your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Burke - 1790 - Revolution in France |
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bar byed pa dpal gsang ba grub
pa zhes bya ba
Tibetan cited as: gsang ba grub pa
Author:
Mahasukhanatha
(Padmavajra) I dpal mgon po bde ba chen po Tohoku no.
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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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And weary was the long patrol,
The thousand miles of
shapeless
strand,
From Brazos to San Blas that roll
Their drifting dunes of desert sand.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He put his companions at their ease and drew them out; he would ask one about one's health, how one looked after oneself, how one was eating and
drinking
and all about oneself.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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yEngus' Festilogy,
Tygrida the mother of
seventeen
sons and
of five daughters.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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the nymph in beauteous grief appears,
Her eyes half-languishing, half-drown'd in tears;
On her heav'd bosom hung her
drooping
head, 145
Which, with a sigh, she rais'd; and thus she said.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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He puts his action
far enough from home: the Spaniards are
conquering
Chili.
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| Question: |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - The Epic |
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In the mean time, a sudden charge was sounded; the foot
soldiers
in an entire body sallied out of the camp, and the concealed troops poured down from the heights, where they had been posted, against the enemy's rear.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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It will then be
time to sign a pact of
friendship
with the remaining world-
power, in preparation for another attack.
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| Source: |
Orwell - 1984 |
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Jinnah a letter which
embodied
the terms which could form
the “basis for settlement.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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From this, we conclude that the void does not exist in the sense of a space with no matter in it, but rather a void is a space in which
different
bodies move and succeed each other.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Merely managing a corporation well, then, does not
represent
a social contribution.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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Has not the time
leisure?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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No hay en la tierra interés There's no joy left on earth
que si la daña me cuadre; if the wickedness is done:
primero seré buen padre, I'll be a good gentleman,
buen
caballero
después.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
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MARMADUKE Ay, what shall we
encounter
next?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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171-186 / Brazilian
translation
in Floema / Caderno de Teoria e Histo?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
|
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Man And Superman, by George Bernard Shaw
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MAN AND
SUPERMAN
***
***** This file should be named 3328.
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Man and Superman- A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw |
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And make us happy in the darting bird
That
suddenly
above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Frost - A Boy's Will |
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136 NOTES-
of compliment is implied in the
preceding
verses,
in the intimations that her love and fears, had over-
come her wonted energy, and self-possession.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Hubbard - Poems |
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Monstrous
old whale!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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Charles Fox, the Concluding Part of the Ame-
than profundity in his thought, and he makes History: a
Quarterly
Magazine for the Student rican Revolution, Vol.
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| Source: |
Athenaeum - London - 1912a |
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I have a dim
remembrance
of that man:
He was a bold and reckless character,
A sun-burnt Ishmael!
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Moreover, if all nations were
agree about certain
religious
matters, for instal
the existence of a God (which, it may be remarke
is not the case with regard to this point), th
would only be an argument against those affirme
matters, for instance the existence of a God; th
consensus gentium and hominum in general can
only take place in case of a huge folly.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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I’m like a magnet that pulls nails out of a rotten old ship – I have the curious ability to attract people from the
intellectual
scene who function completely as non-drivers.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Poetry in
Translation
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Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem et de Jerusalem a Paris
(Record of a Journey from Paris to Jerusalem and Back)
With a selection of engravings and lithographs from nineteenth-century travelogues by
celebrated
artists such as
Edward Dodwell Esq, F.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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" [At the moment of
agreeable
sensation, the anuiaya of desire (rdga) is in the process of arising, utpadyate; it has not yet arisen, utpanna.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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When I have sat down I forget to rise, and
have more than once
overheard
one asking another, when I would be gone.
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| Source: |
Samuel Johnson |
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When nature fails, and day and night
Divide thy works no more,
My ever
grateful
heart, O Lord,
Thy mercy shall adore.
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| Source: |
Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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The contributors to Der Brenner valued the
critique
of language.
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| Source: |
Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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If nine times you your
bridegroom
kiss,
The tenth you know the parson's is.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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I ask you to put
yourselves
in his place.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
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-----
"Here
Reynolds
is laid".
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oliver Goldsmith |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-27 04:56 GMT / http://hdl.
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Demosthenes - 1843 - On the Crown |
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KANT really wished to prove
that, starting from the subject, the subject could not be proved--nor
the object either: the possibility of an
APPARENT
EXISTENCE of the
subject, and therefore of "the soul," may not always have been strange
to him,--the thought which once had an immense power on earth as the
Vedanta philosophy.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Niezsche - Beyond Good and Evil |
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The fresh autumnal night is
silently
spreading its grey veil of mist over the white city.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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In other words, the
remaining
poems show practically the
same virtuosity as the mature works.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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I
see how closely she
observes
him and Lady Susan, poor girl!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
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There is no use
glossing
over it in translation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Greek Anthology |
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Sweet Philomel, the bird
That hath the
heavenly
throat,
Doth now alas!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Browne |
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Concerning the
ideological
show trial as trial of absolution, see this volume, page 167.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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But you possess the affection of all your
subjects
by the help of the good counsel which God bestows upon you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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In this way the awareness which is the indivisible union of
appearance
and emptiness is the very identity of Threefold Being, the actual state of the primordial nature.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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" This was
by far the highest toned form of government submitted to
the convention, and as it intermingled
injuriously
the dif-
ferent departments, and derived them all from the first le-
gislative branch, would have resulted in an odious and in-
tolerable tyrarny, in which the executive and senate
would have been the creatures and mere instruments
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v2 |
|
This
island was only a great cheese well pressed (as we afterwards found
when we fed upon it), about some five-and-twenty
furlongs
in bigness:
the vines were full of clusters of grapes, out of which we could crush
no wine, but only milk: in the midst of the island there was a temple
built dedicated to Galatea, one of the daughters of Nereus, as by the
inscription appeared.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lucian - True History |
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It was at these Pimodan gatherings, which were no doubt much less wicked
than the participants would have us believe, that Baudelaire encountered
Emile Deroy, a painter of skill, who made his portrait, and encouraged
the
fashionable
young fellow to continue his art studies.
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The country, however, between
the Ebro and the Pyrenees was still free, and its tribes were
not only the natural allies of the Romans, but had also, like
the Saguntines,
received
from Roman emissaries promises
of speedy assistance.
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THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY GRAIL
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figure in
likeness
of a child, and the visage was as red and as
bright as any fire, and smote himself into the bread, so that
they all saw it, that the bread was formed of a fleshly man, and
then he put it into the holy vessel again.
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_Farmer's Boy_
He waits all day beside his little flock
And asks the passing
stranger
what's o'clock,
But those who often pass his daily tasks
Look at their watch and tell before he asks.
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~ xcxt VO(l(crf-tCX1:"OC ~eeL
W d / appear to be tetarteron tokens
not
affectIng
the aureus vel pactum pretIum augens
and a few words about hoardIng xcx.
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[341] Thus he spake; and the young heroes turned their eyes towards bold Heracles sitting in their midst, and with one shout they all
enjoined
upon him to be their leader; but he, from the place where he sat, stretched forth his right hand and said: "Let no one offer this honour to me.
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Good day to you,
gentlemen!
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As for vows, [279aJ they are the twelve
ascetical
practices such as living at the foot of a tree, and so on.
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If he was wanted at Lima, he was
on the
Atlantic
in the next fleet.
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This
island was only a great cheese well pressed (as we afterwards found
when we fed upon it), about some five-and-twenty furlongs in bigness:
the vines were full of
clusters
of grapes, out of which we could crush
no wine, but only milk: in the midst of the island there was a temple
built dedicated to Galatea, one of the daughters of Nereus, as by the
inscription appeared.
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The cruel Parcae are to us unknown;
We wond'rous magick pow'rs have often shown;
But wretched, spite of this, appears our lot
Death never comes, though various ills we've got,
For we to human
maladies
are prone,
And suffer greatly oft, I freely own.
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