'Tis sure no
pleasure
to be shot.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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' There are
fourteen
other
characteristics, but those are the more obvious.
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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A select collection of English Songs, with their original airs:
and a historical essay on the origin and
progress
of national song.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v04 |
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It is
achieved
methodically through the confrontation of historical categories and elements of aesthetic theory with artistic experience, which correct one another reciprocally.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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Therefore, "sarvajfiata ' is attained by obtaining the true
knowledge
of things in both the apparent ('samvrita') and the ultimate Cparamartha') sense.
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Bhavanakrama-Stages-of-Meditation-by-Kamalashila |
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Or a cynicism that collaborates with the
repression
of death, which is constitutive for the system in overmilitarized and overstuffed societies.
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Sloterdijk -Critique of Cynical Reason |
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[1] I cry woe for Adonis and say The
beauteous
Adonis is dead; and the Loves cry me woe again and say The beauteous Adonis is dead.
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Bion |
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An opportunity of interference in the domestic affairs of Kashmir
now
presented
itself.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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The
psychologist
Paul Bloom, another advocate of the 'religion is a by-product' view, points out that children have a natural tendency towards a dualistic theory of mind.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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The truth which Enlighteners want to
disseminate
arises through the force, without coercion, of stronger arguments.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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Here, he has been
overshadowed
by
Burns, and he hardly deserves to be so.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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There is
Nicostratus
the son of Theosdotides, and the brother of Theodotus
(now Theodotus himself is dead, and therefore he, at any rate, will
not seek to stop him); and there is Paralus the son of Demodocus,
who had a brother Theages; and Adeimantus the son of Ariston, whose
brother Plato is present; and Aeantodorus, who is the brother of Apollodorus,
whom I also see.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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110
The
discovery
of this mechanics triggers the euphoria that shapes the spiritual schools in statu naseendi, in Asia and Europe alike.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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Third, all busi- ness policies have been increasingly discussed and formulated in
*The FBI delegation was in Manchukuo during the
investigations
of the Lytton Commission engaged in negotiations with Japanese interests.
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Brady - Business as a System of Power |
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Since 1884 he has been
connected
with
the U.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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in the
invisible
world they exist without such a union, but purely as spirits.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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It
appears thenceforward as an individual virtue, as
an
absolute
entity, which it was not before, and
exercises the power and privileges of a sanctified
super-humanity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Nietzsche - v07 - Human All-Too-Human - b |
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In I907, Bergson's Creative Evolution
culminated
in the claim that the philosophically elementary functions of "perception, intellection, lan- guage" all fail to comprehend the process of becoming.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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A great man,--a man whom Nature has built up and
invented
in a grand style,--What.
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moulded |
| Question: |
exceptionalism |
| Answer: |
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Bayard, the second, spoke after his brother,
and said, with a decision and vivacity beyond his age,
that, inheriting from his father and a long line of
ancestors, a name illustrious in arms, and great exam-
ples of warlike virtues, he entreated him to approve of
his
imitating
them: that this was his inclination, and
that he hoped, by God's help, not to derogate from the
glory of those of his house, whose great acts he had
often heard cited.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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He will go to another man's house and borrow barley, or sometimes bran ; and
moreover
will insist upon the lender delivering it at his door.
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| Question: |
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Universal Anthology - v04 |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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Childrens - Longfellow - Child's Hour |
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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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| Question: |
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Aristotle - Nichomachaen Ethics - Commentary - v2 |
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By
giving public proof that the forces of this state are
well appointed and complete for action; but that in
this our procedure we are
determined
to adhere in-
violably to justice.
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Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
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Can you attribute
my delay to contemptible
motives?
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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3 See "Acta
Sanctomm
Hibemise," v.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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His plays number some hundreds,
and he borrowed his
materials
from Cervantes,
Boccaccio, and any other author he found avail-
able.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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'"
Where the
divinity
of the author disappeared, women who write appeared, as irreducible as they are unread.
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KittlerNietzche-Incipit-Tragoedia |
|
A
sympathetic
study, with flashes of brilliant criticism.
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| Source: |
Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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_The Winter's Come_
Sweet chestnuts brown like soling leather turn;
The larch trees, like the colour of the Sun;
That paled sky in the Autumn seemed to burn,
What a strange scene before us now does run--
Red, brown, and yellow, russet, black, and dun;
White thorn, wild cherry, and the poplar bare;
The sycamore all
withered
in the sun.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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I don't think that Lord
Crediton
cared very much for
Cyril.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde |
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2nd edn, to which is
added Lady Susan and fragments of two other
unfinished
tales.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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Men are
extremely
inclined to the passions of hope and fear:
a religion therefore that had neither a heaven nor a hell could
hardly please them.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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n, en este ensayo
tratare?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Hans-Ulrich-Gumbrecht |
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Weeks later his mind
reverted
to the scene.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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If
anyone wishes to
understand
what the auda-
cious man of Rome, with his bodyguard of
Jesuits, can make out of a noble country, let
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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It is not my intention to detain the reader by any long
dissertation
on
the subject of money.
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| Source: |
Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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With
what
astonishment
must the Apollonian Greek
have beheld him!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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Send him away,
Smiling and gay,
Shining and florid,
With his bald
forehead
!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v03 |
|
At
that age one does not see the hook
sticking
out of the rather stodgy bait.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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[Hegel, Early
Theological
Writ- ings, p.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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" The dying statesman exclaimed, "Yes, 'thy rod-thy staff,'
-but the fact, the fact I want;"
for he was not certain
whether the words that had been
repeated
to him were intended
as an intimation that he was already in the dark valley.
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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THE CHILDREN'S PSALM-HOOK
mote on
Strength
comes to us to face all manner of
.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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He checked himself in his exultation to demand, "But is
there
anything
the matter, Janet, that you come to meet me at such an
hour?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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A Roman lady named
Fabiola, in the fourth century, founded in Rome as an act of
penance the first public hospital; and the charity planted by that
woman's hand overspread the world, and will
alleviate
to the
end of time the darkest anguish of humanity.
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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Accord- De Dignotione et Curatione
cujusque
Animi Peccato
ingly, his Commentaries have always been con- rum (vol.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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For this task, he was
peculiarly
well equipped.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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For, as was said before, he does not seek to
instruct
them, but to display himself.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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"
" Thanks, Madam, I'm just now taking my
snuff,"
Quoth the
impudent
chap.
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| Source: |
Childrens - Child Verse |
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We
penetrate
bodily this
incredible beauty; we dip our hands in this painted element; our
eyes are bathed in these lights and forms.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v09 - Dra to Eme |
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There are many who
drift into the monkhood, and who seem to have left the secular world, but
who only use
Buddhism
as a bridge to fame and gain.
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| Source: |
Shobogenzo |
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While Nature, sovereign of this gnarl'd realm,
Lurking in hidden
barbaric
grim recesses,
Acknowledging rapport however far remov'd,
(As some old root or soil of earth its last-born flower or fruit,)
Listens well pleas'd.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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If this date were correct the
connection
with the fall of Antioch would no longer exist.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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The third royal possession is the
precious
queen who is very beautiful and adorned by a variety of jewellery.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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He also picked out the most accomplished men, who were best fitted to rule and govern the whole nation, and he
appointed
them to be priests, whose duty was continually to attend in the temple, and employ themselves in the public worship and service of God.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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As if he said in plain speech; ‘Thou didst promise thyself security of peace in hope, and therefore thou wast glad for thine assurance as for the light, nor ever thoughtest for thyself to be
oppressed
with tribulation.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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And if this be only Trophonius's pit, the lemures,
hobthrushes, and goblins will certainly swallow us alive, just as they
devoured
formerly
one of Demetrius's halberdiers for want of bridles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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the ideas of conscience and of honor, he was unable to find either
a physical basis » or an animal
origin”
for them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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So our little menu has a little
something
from here and a little something from there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Trakl - Word Trucks- I and You; Here and There; This and That |
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Ay, though I were that
laughing
shepherd boy
Who from Mount Ida saw the little cloud
Pass over Tenedos and lofty Troy
And knew the coming of the Queen, and bowed
In wonder at her feet, not for the sake
Of a new Helen would I bid her hand the apple take.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Charmides |
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five bushels of it, and then he had done his day's work, and got his day's pay - threepence and an
allowance
of food.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Marx - Capital-Volume-I |
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If you want to gain a
reputation
for
respectability you have merely to take them down to supper.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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Cease your sobbing; learn duly to support your
distinguished
good
fortune.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Works |
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This new,
conscious
civilization is killing the
other which, on the whole, has led but an unreflective animal and plant
life: it is also destroying the doubt of progress itself--progress is
possible.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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Cox and other writers, accounts are given violent tempests, and torrents rain, which deluged the land, tore forest trees by the roots, and prostrated the houses and churches, chiefly the
province
Ulster, the month March, 1486, and the
year 1491; the lands Ireland, during the summer and harvestsea sons, were deluged with rain, that was impossible save the
other.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Four Masters - Annals of Ireland |
|
35
This messenger of glad tidings” died as he lived
and as he
taught—not
in order “to save mankind,"
but in order to show how one ought to live.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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A still simpler division may be made, one that
separates
theories according to whether they are reductionist or systemic.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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I never take care, yet I've taken great pain
To acquire some goods, but have none by me:
Who's nice to me is one I hate: it's plain,
And who speaks truth deals with me most falsely:
He's my friend who can make me believe
A white swan is the blackest crow I've known:
Who thinks he's power to help me, does me harm:
Lies, truth, to me are all one under the sun:
I
remember
all, have the wisdom of a stone,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Thou hast
enlightened
me more than
much reading.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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*
* Antigonus
suggests
that he, too, like the frog, had learnt wisdom and become a better poet since he had become a wine-drinker.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Greek Anthology |
|
The reader may draw a
parallel
with the Constitution of the United States.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Turing - Can Machines Think |
|
Where is breaking of the Wheel
produced?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-2-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
|
"I have only just now discovered,"
continued
he, "how
difficult it is to meet with a fair creature, of whom one can say,
'This is, indeed, _the_ one; here is, at last, perfection.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
|
]
A clod with rugged, meagre, rust-stained, weather-worried face,
Where care-filled
creatures
tug and delve to keep a worthless race;
And glean, begrudgedly, by all their unremitting toil,
Sour, scanty bread and fevered water from the ungrateful soil;
Made harder by their gloom than flints that gash their harried hands,
And harder in the things they call their hearts than wolfish bands,
Perpetuating faults, inventing crimes for paltry ends,
And yet, perversest beings!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Tacitus indeed
gave a masterly sketch of the Germans, about one hundred years
after Christ: but he was an outsider at best, and seems to have drawn
largely from the accounts of others; scholars are not agreed that he
himself ever
sojourned
in Germany.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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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.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
|
Este «im perio» sólo puede pensarse en singular y tiene estricto
carácter
ecuméni co.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
|
Pagans are slain, a thousandfold, in crowds,
Left of five score are not two
thousands
now.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
|
Unfortu-
nately, obedient to the order of the day, he wrote
exclusively in Latin ; so did another prominent writer
of the
fifteenth
century, John Ostrorog, the first author
from the ranks of the lay aristocracy.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
|
The philosophy of
Plato is more
poetical
than that of Kant,
the philosophy of Mallebranche more reli-
gious; but the great merit of the German
philosopher has been to raise up moral dig-
nity, by setting all that is fine in the heart,
on the basis of a theory deduced from the
strongest reasoning.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Madame de Stael - Germany |
|
All Nature's tribes to thee their diff'rence owe, and changing seasons from thy music flow
Hence, mix'd by thee in equal parts, advance Summer and Winter in
alternate
dance;
This claims the highest, that the lowest string, the Dorian measure tunes the lovely spring .
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orphic Hymns |
|
The Zai- batsu are predominant in the heavy
engineering
industry.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Brady - Business as a System of Power |
|
Unfortunately
the systems staff will not be available until Monday, to apply fixes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
|
The only people to whose
opinions
I listen now with any
respect are persons much younger than myself.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
|
O Music, Music, breathe
despondingly!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
|
At least, it had not united
Englishmen
in
a single church.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v03 |
|
I have
been doubting and
considering
as to what I ought to tell you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Persuasion |
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To be sure, singing the Divine O ce or saying the Ave Maria might have powerful--and, indeed, manifold--spiritual, emotional, and even corporeal e ects:
stirring
the soul to contrition for sins, melting the heart to greater devotion, ravishing devout souls and causing them to receive spiritual gi s, making the heart joyous and sweet, driving away evil spirits, and overcoming the bodily and spiritual enemies of the church.
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The
ultimate
reality of things, their emptiness of inherent existence, a synonym of Thatness.
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161 Earlyin1950,theNationalSecurityCouncilandJointChiefsofStaffconcludedthat"the strategic importance of Formosa [Taiwan] does not justify overt
military
action," and Truman told a press conference, "The United States government will not provide military aid or ad- vice to Chinese forces on Taiwan.
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_B_ drops the 'shine' after
'through'; and _S96_ reads:
May in you, through your face, your hearts
thoughts
see.
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From the circumstances of this stratagem, the nymph Echo has been supposed by the poets to be the mistress of Pan; and hence also all pointless and
imaginary
fears are called panics.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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You
abstemious
old person of Rye!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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{1e} A
disturber
of the border, one who sallies from his haunt in
the fen and roams over the country near by.
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But to assert that such a being necessarily exists, is no longer the modest enun ciation of an admissible hypothesis, but the boldest declaration of an apodeictic certainty ; for the cognition of that which is
absolutely
necessary, must itself possess that character.
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Gently make haste, of Labour not afraid;
A hundred times consider what you've said:
Polish, repolish, every Colour lay,
And
sometimes
add; but oft'ner take away.
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And this partly accounts for the needless ramifications of
Dickens’s
novels, the awful
Victorian ‘plot’.
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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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Meredith - Poems |
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That's a
profound
mistake.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I thrust through antique blood and riches vast,
And all big claims of the
pretentious
Past
That hindered my Nirvana.
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