hmter Zeiten
Die
modernden
Felsen rings;
So bla?
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Trakl - Dichtungen |
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We under-
stand why so feeble a culture hates true art; it
fears
destruction
thereby.
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Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm
trademark
as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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[19] Aye, with my own miserable eyes I saw my
children
smitten of the hand of their father, and that hath no other so much as dreamt of.
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Megara and Dead Adonis |
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A form I saw with secret awe, nor ken I what it warns;
Pure as the snow, a gentle doe it seem'd, with silver horns:
Erect she stood, close by a wood, between two running streams;
And
brightly
shone the morning sun upon that land of dreams!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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74
And the doctrine of
Original
Sin.
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Literary and Philosophical Essays- French, German and Italian by Immanuel Kant |
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No clerk shall go out of the kingdom without
giving
security
that he will do nothing to the prejudice of the king or nation.
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Edmund Burke |
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s By this invention the past was
delivered
from the necessity of being grounded in a beginning event.
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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par ses
conceptions
comme
par un e?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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"^ It seems the site of their old church must be sought for not far from
the banks of the Liffey, and probably
somewhere
within the present county of Kildare,^ which forms the level plain of that river.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1 |
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It would be an easier task either to retain the
old
punctuation
and leave a reader to correct for himself, or to
modernize.
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John Donne |
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_ when we
speak of _two_ minutes, _two_ days, _two_ months as
required
for a
certain process to be completed, we are counting something.
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Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
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God love thee for the
sweetness
of thy word!
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Euripides - Electra |
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First she
regretted
the past.
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Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
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One could spend
paragraphs
trying to describe how the Arabic text's evocative proper names, grammatical oddities and allusions to the Qur'an and the classical tradition create in the reader's mind a single impression of countless blended subtleties.
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Translated Poetry |
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44, Donne enumerates this among
the curses that will overwhelm the sinner: 'There shall fall upon him
those sinnes which he hath done after
anothers
dehortation, and those,
which others have done after his provocation.
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| Question: |
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John Donne |
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But, in place of the woodpecker, he swallowed in his throat a scorpion and
bewailed
to Phorcus the burden of his evil travail, seeking to find counsel in his pain.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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As the conquest of the most difficult
enemy, the sudden
mastering
of an affection—
thus this denial appears; and so far it passes for
the summit of morality.
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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” will be
understood
only too well.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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Returning home by a
circuitous
route, I find the streets even more thronged than in the morning.
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Peter Vay - Korea of Bygone Days |
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XXV
The knight was wroth to see his stroke beguyld,
And smote againe with more
outrageous
might;
But backe againe the sparckling steele recoyld,
And left not any marke, where it did light, 220
As if in Adamant rocke it had bene pight.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I could hear his
voice in the hall, asking the way to the nearest
telegraph
office.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker |
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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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A child
of seven, he made courtly
repartees
to the Dowager
Empress.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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It is something which
penetrates
the nature of the human female, something with which the most animal-like mother is tinged, something which corresponds in the human female, to the characters that separate the human male from the animal male.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
|
Ten seconds later he was bowing
reverently
to a customer.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
Why did he bow? |
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
|
Or because you have not enough of light and warm
clothing
for your body?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v07 |
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Now the other stars are grouped in clear figures and brightly shine, but those beneath the hunted Hare are all clad in mist and
nameless
in their course.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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A
translation
of the
story reads: "The man who lived by the sea loved the sea-gulls.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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I have seen him stained with blood and powder,
To a whole army
bringing
pain and terror.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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Technological
as well as aesthetic analyses become fruitful when they compre- hend the tour de force in works .
| Guess: |
Critical |
| Question: |
Why do technological and aesthetic analyses become more fruitful when they comprehend the tour de force in works? |
| Answer: |
Technological and aesthetic analyses become more fruitful when they comprehend the tour de force in works because it allows them to recognize the intricate balance between art's illusory element and the technical challenges the artist faces in creating the work. This balance is essential in understanding the essence of the artwork and its aesthetic enigma. By comprehending the tour de force, analyses can better grasp the nuances of artistic performance, enabling them to formulate the work as a problem with competing demands and ultimately, do justice to the masterpiece. |
| Source: |
Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
|
Refuting other sectarians'
liberation
identified with the self]
L6: [a.
| Guess: |
claims |
| Question: |
Why is the refutation focused on sectarians' liberation in relation to the self? |
| Answer: |
The refutation is focused on sectarians' liberation in relation to the self because the passage argues that neither the aggregates nor the person can be considered as truly existent reliance, which is necessary for achieving nirvana and liberation from rebirth. Instead, the passage suggests that liberation should be accepted as a mere imputation. The argument centers around the idea that it is not possible for a person to exist independently from these aggregates and still achieve liberation, as such a concept would be self-contradictory and illogical. |
| Source: |
Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
|
He
accosted
me:
"Sir, what is this?
| Guess: |
asked |
| Question: |
Why did he address the speaker by asking, "Sir, what is this?" |
| Answer: |
He addressed the speaker by asking, "Sir, what is this?" because he heard little voices calling out "Good bye! Good bye!" in the darkness, and he wanted to know what the situation was or what was going on. |
| Source: |
Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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terni 56
tunc_ O
61
_bachantis_
GOR || _eheu_ Bergk: _heue_ ?
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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Both the one and the other maketh men whole ; but the former removes them from
sickness
into health, the latter preserves them in this health.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v1 |
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From Fiffe, great King,
Where the
Norweyan
Banners flowt the Skie,
And fanne our people cold.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Awareness
arises nakedly as self-occurring primal knowing.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
|
The usage "brings to language"
employed
here is now to be taken quite
literally.
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| Question: |
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
|
What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed
as he found no
difficulty
in moving.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For
familiar
hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Still,itcan
hardlybe
denied thatin manycases examinationpapers and especiallydissertations showan amountofworkand care whichbyfarsurpassthosewhichwere submitted50 or 60 years ago at what have recentlybeen called "elite" universities.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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The curse of heaven lies upon our head:
'Tis
dedicate
to ruin.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Friedrich Schiller |
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The upshot is the final triumph, the
redemption
of a soul.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bertrand - Saint Augustin |
|
We see the general drift: every
individual gets
sacrificed
and serves as a tool.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
|
Then [when in prison] I had the feeling that the
Communists
never lied.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lifton-Robert-Jay-Thought-Reform-and-the-Psychology-of-Totalism |
|
rich und Basel sind dem
originellen
Werk gewidmet.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Publications.1447-2006 |
|
I must decline
To
circulate
such coin.
| Guess: |
accept |
| Question: |
Why does the speaker feel the need to decline circulating the coin? |
| Answer: |
The speaker feels the need to decline circulating the coin because they believe that doing so would work to their brother's injury and make him unhappy. They cannot content themselves with the happiness that the court offers and doesn't want to serve a prince in that capacity. |
| Source: |
Friedrich Schiller |
|
As the
troopers
found out.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
|
Printed in
GreatlBritain
by
BKWIN BBOTHEBS, IJinTED, THB ORKSHAM FREES, -WOKING AND LONDON
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
|
Two later works derived from that period, Rene, and Atala, evidencing the new sensibility, greatly influenced the
development
of the Romantic Movement in France.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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To
them has been added an
important
passage from _A Challenge at Tilt_,
1613.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
|
' 'Surrealism', says Mezer, 'starts from realities distinct from the
conscious
and the unconscious and goes towards the synthesis of those components.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sartre-Jean-Paul-What-is-literature¿-Introducing-Les-Temps-modernes-The-nationalization-of-literature-Black-orpheus |
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"A
Cultural
History o fLatin America.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
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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(One of these, in keeping with the
fundamental
technical char- acter of modernity, was the alliance of empower- ment and facilitation of life, which would ultimately lead to the consumer society of today.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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In its
capitalistic
interpretation, the currents of desire blossom with incomparably more power-something that is gradually admitted as well by those who had bought socialism stocks at the exchange of illusions, stocks of which one will keep several exam- ples like the yellowed German one-billion Reichsmark bills from the year 1923.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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This
interpretations
featurehas been ignored,and the understandingof the natureof Western
societywhich,afterall, has made science and scholarshippossible and has
them has been
concentrationon
its protected institutionally, replaced by
defects.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nolte - Thoughts on the State and Prospects of the Academic Ethic in the Universities of the Federal Republic of Germany |
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In their baronial feuds and single fields,
What deeds of prowess
unrecorded
died!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
|
The fine slender shoulder-blades:
The long arms, with tapering hands:
My small breasts: the hips well made
Full and firm, and sweetly planned,
All Love's
tournaments
to withstand:
The broad flanks: the nest of hair,
With plump thighs firmly spanned,
Inside its little garden there?
| Guess: |
armor |
| Question: |
What's planted in the garden? |
| Answer: |
It is not clear what is planted in the garden from the given passage. |
| Source: |
Villon |
|
" Already, the fact that a movement cap- tured in differential equations dictates those laws of movement
already elevates such a theory discernably over the belatedness of
literary descriptions or
painterly
representations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Drunken |
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It implies the project of
transposing
the entire life of work, wishes, and expression of the people that it has captured into the immanence of purchasing power.
| Guess: |
capturing |
| Question: |
what isn’t purchasable? |
| Answer: |
The passage does not provide specific information about what isn't purchasable. |
| Source: |
Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
|
It may only be
used on or
associated
in any way with an electronic work by people who
agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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And then the rollers groaned under the sturdy keel as they were chafed, and round them rose up a dark smoke owing to the weight, and she glided into the sea; but the heroes stood there and kept
dragging
her back as she sped onward.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appolonius Rhodius - Argonautica |
|
Nothing whatsoever is new, nothing is
different
than it was, except arriving back at where you started.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Spiritual-Song-of-Lodro-Thaye |
|
"
"When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of
thoughts
be laid at last,
The man of flesh and soul be slain
And the man of bone remain?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
We sought each other out and went on
and on together,
exploring
the Fairy Castle.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
|
may'st thou ever sleep as sound,
As softly smile, while o'er thy little bed
Thy mother sits, with
fascinated
gaze
Catching each placid feature's sweet expres-l-sie/*.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Carey - 1796 - Key to Practical English Prosody |
|
By alone I mean without a
material
being, and my cat is a mystic companion, a spirit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aquinas - Medieval Europe |
|
TO ----
1
The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see
The wantonest singing birds
Are lips--and all thy melody
Of lip-begotten words--
2
Thine eyes, in Heaven of heart enshrin'd
Then
desolately
fall,
O!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
|
Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
Neither was your cruelty
satisfied
with a plain and common death; for he was hanged upon a tree.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
|
It was his friend Gautier,
with the plastic style, who
attempted
the well-nigh impossible feat of
competing in his verbal descriptions with the certitudes of canvas and
marble.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
|
Different
explanations of Chariton’s constant use have
been advanced.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
|
In the middest of the market-place is a well, by them called Careotis,
and two temples adjoining, the one of falsehood, the other of truth,
which have either of them a private cell
peculiar
to the priests, and
an oracle, in which the chief prophet is Antiphon, the interpreter of
dreams, who was preferred by Sleep to that place of dignity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lucian - True History |
|
" For Socrates/Plato, see Document 26: "An Intellectual on Trial")
Unfortunately, this Athenian Golden Age was derailed by the disastrous Peloponnesian War, a terrible
conflict
between the two superpowers of the time, Athens and its longtime rival polis Sparta.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
|
In reality, the comrade in question was
inspired
quite simply by a desire for revenge, as I subsequently learnt.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hitler-Table-Talk |
|
"
In the mean time, till all these
alterations
could be made from the
savings of an income of five hundred a-year by a woman who never saved
in her life, they were wise enough to be contented with the house as it
was; and each of them was busy in arranging their particular concerns,
and endeavoring, by placing around them books and other possessions, to
form themselves a home.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
|
The star that rules my
luckless
lot,
Has fated me the russet coat,
An' damn'd my fortune to the groat;
But in requit,
Has blest me with a random shot
O' countra wit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
|
His "Flight from Siberia"
is
translated
into English.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
|
Pretty much every day, I receive some messages in which
students
tell me that they have a real necessity to talk to me, that they would consider it a great favor and privilege if I set up a meeting with them - and then they continue by letting me know the time and the electronic addresses under which they will be "available.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
|
"
"When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of
thoughts
be laid at last,
The man of flesh and soul be slain
And the man of bone remain?
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
|
| Answer: |
|
| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
|
Neither was your cruelty
satisfied
with a plain and common death; for he was hanged upon a tree.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
|
, and opium, it seems, is able in
this, as in other instances, to
counteract
her purposes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater |
|
" This
reflection
of
his own scared him as if it had been spok
of his sire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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" After some debate he
was content that he should write,
provided
that he
would promise to write nothing but what he should
first see, and would still bring the answers to him
which he should receive; to which the other con-
sented.
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Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions will
be renamed.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Here Thetis' face is ruffled by
A gentle wind; the waters lie
Not in dead calm, but o'er the main
A
peaceful
liveliness doth reign,
Bearing gay yachts before a breeze
Cool as the air that floats with ease
From purple fan of damozel
Who would the summer heat dispel.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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L Let me tell you how we are situated; Hirtius was at my house yesterday evening; he
explained
what Antonius' intentions were - utterly base, you may be sure, and untrustworthy; for he said that he could not possibly give me my province, and also that it was not safe for any of us to be in Rome, so excited were the feelings of the soldiers and the people.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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But if that remains his normal
condition, then his
consciousness
of his household becomes acute and
over-wrought, making him fly at every stranger passing near his house.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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their objective content those standards from which
Heidegger
distinguishes them.
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Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
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In him, these things
demanded
approbation: he was a fine advocate for owners of property; he seldom shifted judges; he was loyal to friends; he became angry without injury or danger to anyone; he was quite cautious, to be sure.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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But Logicians and Commonly all Men are used to say, that there are some
_Spiritual_, some
_Corporeal_
substances.
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Material |
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Why do logicians and most people believe that there are both spiritual and corporeal substances? |
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Logicians and most people believe that there are both spiritual and corporeal substances because substances are understood as the subjects of acts or accidents, and different substances are perceived as subjects of very different acts or accidents. Therefore, it is reasonable and customary to call those substances by different names, such as spiritual and corporeal, and examine if those different names signify different or the same thing. |
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Descartes - Meditations |
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Instead, he entered the
University
of Vienna, thus
causing a rift between his father and himself.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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"He goes on to state, that years passed by, and both his old school-
friends found him out, and came and claimed a share in his good
fortune,
according
to the school-day vow.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And now I see no necessity why I should assigne any other _Author_ of
these _Ideas_ but _my self_; for if they are _false_, that is, represent
things that _are not_, I know by the _light_ of _nature_ that they
proceed from _nothing_; that is to say, I harbour them upon no other
account, but because my _nature_ is
_deficient_
in something, and
_imperfect_.
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defective |
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Why does the author believe that they themselves are the source of these Ideas, and how does this relate to the concept of falsehood and their own nature being deficient and imperfect? |
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The author believes that they themselves are the source of these Ideas because they see no necessity to assign any other author to them. If the Ideas are false, meaning they represent things that do not exist, the author knows by the light of nature that they proceed from nothing, resulting from the deficiency and imperfection of their own nature. If the Ideas are true but have very little reality, the author still sees no reason why they should not be the author of these Ideas.
This relates to the concept of falsehood and their own nature being deficient and imperfect because they acknowledge that they might harbor false Ideas due to the limitations of their thoughts and understanding. Therefore, their nature is considered deficient and imperfect, as they are unable to perfectly perceive certain aspects of the world and represent them accurately in their Ideas. |
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Descartes - Meditations |
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The onset of the smiling response around four weeks marks the
beginning
of the cycles of benign interaction that characterise the relationship between the baby and his caregivers.
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Bowlby - Attachment |
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of Asiatic Studies, there is going to be another in the coming issue (6 weeks more):
translation
of Wen-fu.
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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My head and my back are aching, and even my
thoughts
seem to
be in pain, so strangely do they occur.
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Dostoevsky - Poor Folk |
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'] The lesson of this holy man's Acts shows us, that in all times some of the greatest saints have been born with poor
surroundings
and
prospects in life.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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