It takes considerably more insight, however, to discern the primary political, economic, and discursive reasons why cars are so fuel inefficient, or why communities fail to provide housing for their more vulnerable members, or why much-needed food is thrown away instead of shipped where it is needed, or what
idiocies
start wars.
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'D' had not been
identified
at that stage.
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160 The Essay as Form
temporally embodied, the individual sciences insist stubbornly on the pre-critical job of definition - and do so for the sake of the undis- turbed
security
of their operation.
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tell me, is it he
That spreads and swells in puffed posterity,
Or blest with little, whose
preventing
care
In peace provides fit arms against a war?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Now, whether it were by peculiar grace,
A leading from above, a
something
given,
Yet it befell that in this lonely place,
When I with these untoward thoughts had striven,
Beside a pool bare to the eye of heaven
I saw a man before me unawares;
The oldest man he seemed that ever wore gray hairs.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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O how
charmingly
Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers blooming and luxuriant.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Accordingly,
to eat, to drink, to get up, to go to bed, to a
descendant
of Louis
XIV.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v24 - Sta to Tal |
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In our model, a potential
aggressor
demands concessions from the weaker party threatening a war.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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(4) Thus have I passed through natural
philosophy
and the deficiences
thereof; wherein if I have differed from the ancient and received
doctrines, and thereby shall move contradiction, for my part, as I affect
not to dissent, so I purpose not to contend.
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Bacon |
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"
concernino^
the conduct of
our troops.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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With well-scoured buckets on
proceeds
the maid,
And drives her cows to milk beneath the shade,
Where scarce a sunbeam to molest her steals--
Sweet as the thyme that blossoms where she kneels;
And there oft scares the cooing amorous dove
With her own favoured melodies of love.
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Ay, but soon ye woke up shrieking,
As a child that wakes at night
From a dream of sisters speaking
In a garden's summer-light,--
That wakes,
starting
up and bounding,
In a lonely lonely bed,
With a wall of darkness round him,
Stifling black about his head!
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Elizabeth Browning - 2 |
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Many anecdotes on this point are contained in
a
collection
called “The Little Flowers of St.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v29 - BIographical Dictionary |
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"
One is
beginning
to learn to joke and talk;
The other can already recite poems and songs.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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In this view
it would no doubt be a contradiction to suppose the causality of the
same subject (that is, his will) to be
withdrawn
from all the
natural laws of the sensible world.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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Granting that we should say yea to any single moment, we have then
affirmed
not only ourselves, but the whole of ex istence.
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The vehicles or vessels that would have to carry out the intrusion would furthermore be different in character from those
involved
in the "theater war.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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Wrapped in the mantle of the
unknown, appalling by their craft, their ferocity, their fiendish
cruelty, they seemed to the white settlers devils and not men;
no one could say with certainty whence they came, nor of what
tribe they were; and when they had finished their dreadful work,
they retired into a
wilderness
that closed over their trail, as the
waves of the ocean close in the wake of a ship.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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The
melodramatic
cast to the phrase "transformation of one's
being" ismore likely to be understood psychologically than spiritual
ly.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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Hurrah for
Tribunes
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Universal Anthology - v02 |
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Herein, the direct
realization
of thatness is very much more swift.
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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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The
beast, maddened with pain, turned and fled,
trampling
down many
in its fight, and Sikandar Khān bore the young king with him from
the field.
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Cambridge History of India - v3 - Turks and Afghans |
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^ ^^""^ ^^e Hardinefs of fuch an
cf the Perfian
Exchequer
flowed in.
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Demosthenes - Orations - v2 |
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Doubts which he
had never before felt,
struggled
in his bosom; gloomy forebodings
clouded his ever-open brow; the shade of Magdeburg seemed to hover over
him.
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Schiller - Thirty Years War |
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If you do not agree to abide by all
the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy
all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works in your possession.
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Ovid - Art of Love |
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This is an
inimyskilling
inglis, this is a scotcher grey, this is a davy, stooping.
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Finnegans |
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Escaping
the worldly a airs that stain,
8 Their minds are as calm as a white lotus.
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Hanshan - 01 |
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During the Reagan-Bush-Clinton era, from 1981 to 1996, the share of the
national
income that went to those who work for a living shrank by over 12 percent.
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Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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The poem that began by describing tribal lands depopulated and
buddilat
ahluhā wuḥūšan "their people replaced with beastly ones", ends with a simile of the strong preying upon the weak, in a circle of death (or "circle of life" for those at the top of the food chain like the eagle, or the monarchic predators we're supposed to root for in The Lion King.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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And
motion to and fro would not be unbroken, since
Aristotle
argues that
every time a moving body reached the end of its path, and the sense of
its movement was reversed, it would be for two consecutive moments in
the same place, and therefore at rest.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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Mirză
Muḥammad
of Qazwin.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v4 - Eastern Roman Empire |
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I hope I shall see you at the Club this
evening?
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Man is made great or little by his own will;
Because I am true to mine
therefore
he dies!
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Friedrich Schiller |
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But still the
above, in my opinion, is what the public would think of the matter,
_and my friends of the press could lay it
entirely
to the literary
account_.
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Selection of English Letters |
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Few of the independent
concerns
out of which
the trusts have been formed, were listed on the
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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Tell me, did thy graces
Fly
discontented
hence, and for a time
Did rather choose to bless another clime?
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Robert Herrick |
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Plutarch devotes a fairly lengthy section of the biography to the exploits of
Archimedes
in that conflict, as well as the famous mathematician's other achievements.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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The censorship still allowed the paper to publish manifestos of opposition groups and a
pastoral
letter critical of the regime.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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No, mother, we must die:
Since such is the reward of innocent lives;
Such the
alleviation
of worst wrongs.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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None felt stern Nature rocking at his feet,
And yawning forth a grave for those who lay
Upon their bucklers for a winding-sheet;
Such is the
absorbing
hate when warring nations meet.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Latium once reduced, it remained to
determine
the lot of the
vanquished.
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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Arnold's active
mind was diverted from political and theological
speculations
to the
study of philology, and to historical composition.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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_Ri-mat
ilat_Nin-sun should be
rendered
"The wild cow Ninsun.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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'
WOODNOTES II
_As
sunbeams
stream through liberal space_
_And nothing jostle or displace,_
_So waved the pine-tree through my thought_
_And fanned the dreams it never brought.
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Emerson - Poems |
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So what if medieval Christians
believed
their o -repeated saluta- tions of the Virgin brought her great joy and them a sweet taste to the mouth?
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Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
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Ifthe mind can dwell
according
to our wishes, this is
one-pointedness.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
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She must not make it a
more decided subject of misery to him, by a
melancholy
tone herself.
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Austen - Emma |
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He is a
constant
friend.
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Kalidasa - Shantukala, and More |
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Their conduct in the
Hannibalic
war, ii.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.5. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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"27 What is the ontological status or the
intentional
claim of a dream exposing
the world and not our psychology?
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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This would be a radical standardization and reduction of manufacturing costs, but it would also cost billions of dollars to replace all the television and film systems on the planet, which means that it will pass to the Japanese
electronics
industry.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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Pure reason has therefore nothing left but nature in general, and the completeness of
conditions
in na ture in accordance with some principle.
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Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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As the Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Steven
Weinberg
said, 'Religion is an insult to human dignity.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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The censorship still allowed the paper to publish manifestos of opposition groups and a
pastoral
letter critical of the regime.
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Manufacturing Consent - Chomsky |
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_105
THIRD CITIZEN:
You seem to know the
vulnerable
place
Of these same crocodiles.
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Shelley |
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— the man who, they say, carries about with him the gods of his country, and took up on his
shoulders
his old worn-out father !
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Universal Anthology - v03 |
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A
destructive
revolution was not inevitable in the nature
of things, but resulted from the incapacity of the rulers
and nobility.
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Outlines and Refernces for European History |
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Vindication
of the Duke of Guise 1683.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Nothing, at the time, appeared
more
unlikely
than that a candidate (if candidate I could be called)
whose professions and conduct set so completely at defiance all ordinary
notions of electioneering, should nevertheless be elected.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Nothing, at the time, appeared
more
unlikely
than that a candidate (if candidate I could be called)
whose professions and conduct set so completely at defiance all ordinary
notions of electioneering, should nevertheless be elected.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Come rimane
splendido
e sereno
l'emisperio de l'aere, quando soffia
Borea da quella guancia ond' e piu leno,
per che si purga e risolve la roffia
che pria turbava, si che 'l ciel ne ride
con le bellezze d'ogne sua paroffia;
cosi fec'io, poi che mi provide
la donna mia del suo risponder chiaro,
e come stella in cielo il ver si vide.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Reply to Objection 3: When many
movements
arise from one cause, it does
not follow that they all regard chiefly that which the cause regards
chiefly, but only the first of them.
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Summa Theologica |
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Ah, but I had given over to despair
The mind in me, I ground the stubborn tribes,
I quarried them like rocks and broke them small
And ground them down to
flinders
and to sands;
But never gleamed the jewel-stone therein,
Naught but the common flint of earth I found.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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1 Since Schroder and Husserl did not distinguish, in the way Frege did, between the Sinn and Bedeutung of an expression, we have thought it best in this paragraph to preserve the actual German where these terms or (more commonly) their cognates with 'sinnig' and 'deutig' occur in quotation from these authors, or where Frege himself uses the latter in
alluding
to their views.
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Gottlob-Frege-Posthumous-Writings |
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When the Marathas (says their historian) proceeded beyond their boundary,
to collect revenue and make war were synonymous;
whenever
a village resis-
ted, its officers were seized, and compelled by threats, and sometimes by torture,
more or less severe, to come to a settlement; money was seldom obtainable, but
securities from bankers, with whom all the villages had dealing, were prefer--
able, as they were exchanged for bills payable in any part of India.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period |
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rs savages against manIacs
and VIce versa Alfred sorted out hundreds, ttthings,
They probably
murdered
Erlgena, Athelstan gon Yllden rere, after 925
Aunt Ethelfled had been lIterate, Canute for alleVIatIon of Alp tolls
Gerbert at the astrolabe better tha.
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Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound |
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Post (1992) has similarly argued that depression in adult life may
originate
with environmental trauma that is encoded in brain changes in protein and RNA, on the analogy of the 'kindling' phenomenon in epilepsy in which the sensitivity of brain cells becomes progressively greater with each seizure, so that what starts as a response to an environmental stimulus becomes eventually an intrinsic feature of the brain.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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ga are believed to have widened the "great"
Mahayana
path.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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In the days when the nobility had manly
passions, they amused themselves with tournaments which counter-
feited war; now it was dancers who,
mingling
with the nobles,
wore the colors of their ladies in fêtes counterfeiting tourna-
ments!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 - Lev to Mai |
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So he told her, saying, Thus and thus it must be, and we that
survive will
accompany
you to the river-side.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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Are they not
heavenly
— those bright fields ?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v03 - Bag to Ber |
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He sees
nothing
attractive
in me; not even youth--only a few useful mental
points.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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) Barba arrived at the head of a large force of Italians and Triarius the Roman general advanced and started to besiege Apameia; the citizens of Apameia
resisted
as much as they could, but finally they opened their gates and let the Romans in.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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) Barba arrived at the head of a large force of Italians and Triarius the Roman general advanced and started to besiege Apameia; the citizens of Apameia
resisted
as much as they could, but finally they opened their gates and let the Romans in.
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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Let my despair burst forth, at liberty,
Your speech has now too long
restrained
me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Around, around, they waltzed and wound;
Some wheeled in
smirking
pairs;
With the mincing step of a demirep
Some sidled up the stairs:
And with subtle sneer, and fawning leer,
Each helped us at our prayers.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Finden from
drawings
by J.
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Byron |
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But however you got it, you did for a time more or less justify keeping it, on the ground that you exported good
government
or better government than the natives would have had without England.
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Ezra-Pound-World-War-II-Broadcasts |
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procul igneus horror
thoracum,
gladiosque
tegat vagina minaces.
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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Sociologists of religion put it quite bluntly: people keep believing
everywhere
else, but in our society we have glorified disillusionment.
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Sloterdijk - You Must Change Your Life |
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WHAT should a husband do whose wife is sought,
With anxious fondness by
another?
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La Fontaine |
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20
I, TOO, CAN WRITE--and, at a pedant's frown,
ONCE poured my fustian rhetoric on the town:
And idly proved that Sylla, far from power,
Had passed, unknown to fear, the tranquil hour:--
Now I resume my pen; for, since we meet 25
Such swarms of
desperate
bards in every street,
'Tis vicious clemency to spare the oil,
And hapless paper they are sure to spoil.
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| Source: |
Satires |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Childrens - Book of Poetry |
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What blessing shall the bard entreat
The god he hallows, as he pours
The
winecup?
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He came Dublin, and was married Gyda, sister
daughter
Aulaf Quaran, Danish prince, and stated that he was converted the Christian faith, and resided long time Ire land.
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previous
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The leading men of Jājpur sent an
envoy to ask him to formulate his demands, and on
learning
that
he required elephants sent him seventy-five.
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2 The Fimbrian soldiers were
concerned
that their leaders would regard them as disloyal because of their crime against Flaccus, and they secretly sent to Mithridates, promising to desert to him.
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The Germans, with their reverence for
everything that came from the court, intentionally
took the
chancery
style as their pattern in all that
they had to write, especially in their letters, records,
wills, &c.
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187 See Foot, Wrong War, 230, and A Substitutefor Victory: The
Politics
ofPeacemaking at the Ko- rean Armistice Talks (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990).
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It
wasn’t
so in the
old days.
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He
is
waiting!
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uchacriti-
as serves in a twofold as a theoryofstruggle, Enlightenment way:
que,
weapon against a hardened,
conservativelycomplacent
conscious- ness, and as an instrumentfor practiceand self-assurance.
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Thou maruell'st at my words: but hold thee still,
Things bad begun, make strong
themselues
by ill:
So prythee goe with me.
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Syme, the man of whom he said "he never wasted a drop
of ink or blood," and whose character he has drawn in one of his
most
charming
biographies.
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Why was it that the
ancients
prized this Tao so much?
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" "And have you
nothing else to
request?
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Most Arab
commentators
give this poem the sort of banal, inexcusable explication that reduces this poem and others like it by Umar Ibn al-Fāriḍ to a mere mystical code that needs decipherment.
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Writing not only creates a telecommunicative bridge between known friends, who at the time of the
transmission
live in a geographical proximity to one another; but it sets in motion an unpredictable process.
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