Haven't I your
confidence?
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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I give the sentences, as they stand in the sermon,
premising only that I was speaking
exclusively
of miracles worked for
the outward senses of men.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-12-24 14:45 GMT / http://hdl.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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In what sense can time be
present?
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The-future-cannot-begin-Niklas-Luhmann |
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Likewise, at the sacrifices and when entering the temples he
stationed
him at his side and he ordered the others to yield precedence to him.
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Roman Translations |
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The effect destroys the cause;
Therefore
the cause is not permanent.
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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He then seized their property, and so by the deaths of these two he instilled great fear into the others, who were forced to give him
everything
they had, as a ransom for their lives.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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In reality,
the
libertine
whose life is sullied but whose
page is pure, is, like Chaucer's pardoner, much
more beneficial for the morals of posterity.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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The
solution
of it is a shepherd’s pipe dedicated to Pan by Theocritus.
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Pattern Poems |
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" If this be a
fortuitous
coincidence, it is also one of
the most extraordinary in literature.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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And he had nothing to say, nothing easy--
He
mentioned
ten million men, mentioned them as having gone west,
mentioned them as shoving up the daisies.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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A flowery
kingdom?
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Stephen Crane - Black Riders |
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This
attachment
was very soon transformed
## p.
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Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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And Betty's most
especial
charge,
Was, "Johnny!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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[ Art thou not my slave & shalt thou dare
To smite me with thy tongue beware lest I sting also thee,]
Who art thou Diminutive husk & shell* [
Broke from my bonds I scorn my prison & yet I love]
If thou hast sinnd & art polluted know that I am pure*
And
unpolluted
& will bring to rigid strict account
All thy past deeds [So] hear what I tell thee!
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Blake - Zoas |
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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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Austen - Persuasion |
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The landlocked port, a work well worthy kings,
That takes whole fleets within its
sheltering
wings;
Swamps, sterile long, all plashy, rank, and drear,
Groan 'neath the plow, and feed whole cities near;
The river, perilous to field and farm,
Its channel changed, can now no longer harm,-
These, and all earthly works, must pass away;
And words, shall they enjoy a longer day?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v13 - Her to Hux |
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I imagined that they would be disgusted, until, by my gentle
demeanour and
conciliating
words, I should first win their favour and
afterwards their love.
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Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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_
It is now a commonplace of
criticism
that the epoch of Charles II.
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Thomas Otway |
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91
al Occidente,
dejandose
caer en la mar por la
cumbre de unos montes.
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Lope de Vega - Works - Los Pastores de Belen |
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Behind the bright red counter a girl in a tall white cap was
fiddling
with an ice-box, and
somewhere at the back a radio was playing, plonk-tiddle-tiddle-plonk, a kind of tinny
sound.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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I ask for a moment's
indulgence
to sit by thy side.
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Tagore - Gitanjali |
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The End
Throughout the echoing chambers of my brain
I hear your words in mournful cadence toll
Like some slow passing-bell which warns the soul
Of
sundering
darkness.
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Amy Lowell |
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puff-puff I" I looked out and
saw some
trailing
white filmy clouds, which
67
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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He fought
his battle out in the silence and solitude of his room,
while, as a relief from the monotonous snows of the
northern capital, his memory returned to translucent
blue Italian skies, to the roses of the Palatine, the glowing
colours of
classical
Rome among which walks Iridion1.
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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All things that are, or being have, or those that mutely lie,
Have each its course to follow out, or object to descry;
Contributing
its little share to that stupendous whole,
Where with man's teeming race combined creation's wonders roll.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--and how much more
falsity is still
necessary
to me that I may therewith always reassure
myself regarding the luxury of my truth.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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As the presiding deities, the two goddesses were called Thesmophoroi (Bringers of the Divine Law) because the introduction of grain cultivation was considered the origin of
civilized
life.
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Ancient-greek-cults-a-guide |
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Barretier was now advanced to the latter end of his twelfth year, and
had made great advances in his studies,
notwithstanding
an obstinate
tumour in his left hand, which gave him great pain, and obliged him to
a tedious and troublesome method of cure; and reading over his
performance, was so far from contenting himself with barely
transcribing it, that he altered the greatest part of the notes,
new-modelled the dissertations, and augmented the book to twice its
former bulk.
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Samuel Johnson |
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However, some
commentators
put them togeth-
er and they read much better so.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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exis-
tence, 471
im Westen nichts neves,
426
ima vada noctis abscurae
107
immacolata, 500
immaculata, 429
Imperator
ait, 556 Imperator .
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A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II |
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Overconfidence
attracts
new danger.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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For as soon as we
discover
evidence of an electronic communica- tion device around the person's neck, or behind her ear, then she turns from an uncanny figure of foolishness into somebody who is privileged to spend time with a beloved one, say, on her way to work.
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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[1282] For what has the unhappy mother of
Prometheus
in common with the nurse of Sarpedon?
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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"
"No, no; it is, it is his very own
writing!
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Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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That is, to put it very crudely, I can speak of the
contemporaneity
of these three contemporaries even when they are long dead.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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La era
incipiente
de la técnica acumulativa y de la antropología
segura de sí misma ya no quiere saber más de trascendencias ni de
globos celestes.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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_
"To
prostitute
his voice for base renown,
And ravish from the Greeks a parsley crown.
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Satires |
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'Nay,' he answered; 'but he's not angry: he seemed rarely pleased indeed;
only I made him impatient by speaking to him twice; and then he bid me be
off to you: he
wondered
how I could want the company of anybody else.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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But it is easier to explain the occasional suppression
of a revealing title than to
conceive
a motive for inventing such
a gloss.
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John Donne |
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HISTORICAL
BEAUTIES
for YOUNG LADIES, intended to
lead the Female Mind to the Love and
Practice of Moral" Goodness; designed
principally for the Use of Ladies' Schools,
by Mrs.
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Childrens - Tales of the Hermitage |
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54 OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY
man, the Reading, the Telephone, the Telegraph
and the General Electric companies, like the
New Haven, buy steel
products
from the Steel
Corporation.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The other animals understood how to vote, but could
never think of any
resolutions
of their own.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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When many of the Thracian nobility, out of hatred towards Diēgylis, fled to him, they were kindly received; but Diēgylis, when he heard of this, tortured the hostages left by those who had fled with the most
grievous
torments.
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| Source: |
Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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Cornelius
Sulla and
the murder of his son he became one of the candi- Q.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c |
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The old colonel took his place; and at a com-
mand from him in a
somewhat
low voice, the men, except a
detail left to hold the horses, moved into company-front facing
the guns.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v19 - Oli to Phi |
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The most remote
Most wild
untrodden
path, in all the tract
'Twixt Lerice and Turbia were to this
A ladder easy' and open of access.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It has never been
corrupted
by cyclic existence, nor has it ever been improved by going beyond suffering.
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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--Did you eat
afterwards?
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
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36
And truly this defect has been attended with
unspeakable
inconveniences; for not to mention the prejudice done to the commonwealth of letters, I am of opinion we suffer in our health by it.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Alas, his whole
estate and life depended on his hatchet; by his hatchet he earned many a
fair penny of the best
woodmongers
or log-merchants among whom he went
a-jobbing; for want of his hatchet he was like to starve; and had death but
met with him six days after without a hatchet, the grim fiend would have
mowed him down in the twinkling of a bedstaff.
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais |
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"
In this speech Demosthenes may be said to fore-
shadow the general
character
of his foreign 'policy.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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Those vows, those perfumes, those
infinite
kisses,
will they be reborn, from gulfs beyond soundings,
as the suns that are young again climb in the sky,
after they've passed through the deepest of drownings?
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Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
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This brings us to the third stage in the relation of
civilian
violence to warfare.
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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His
character
was simple and temperate, and had none of
the vice or indulgence which was afterwards associated with the name of
Epicurean.
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| Source: |
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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Scarce is there an hour in the night,
When sleep does not take its flight,
And I think of thee,
How many
thousand
times
Thou gav'st thy heart to me.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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L’église de Balbec, du XIIe et XIIIe siècle, encore à
moitié romane, est peut-être le plus curieux
échantillon
du gothique
normand, et si singulière, on dirait de l’art persan.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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He only produces lengthy extracts from the Ger-
manophobe
articles
of the Russian press.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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For induction is an argument, which by means of some admitted truths
establishes
naturally other truths which resemble them.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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Ah, Claus, those
premiums!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
This way and that, in many a wild festoon
Ran riot,
garlanding
the gnarled boughs
With bunch and berry and flower thro' and thro'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v02 |
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It was
to the following effect :-- _
"I said," he tells us, "that the dismay of those
who suppose that Philip could still count on the
Thebans must proceed from an
ignorance
of the real
state of the case.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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Mark this, thou unprofaned Nature:
thou hast grown old, and for thousands of years
this starry sky has spanned the space above thee—
but thou hast never yet heard such
conceited
and,
at bottom, mischievous chatter as the talk of the
present day!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v03 - Future of Our Educational Institutions |
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Cumulonubulocirrhonimbant heaven electing, the dart of desire has gored the heart of secret waters and the poplarest wood in the entire district is being grown at present, eminently adapted for the requirements of pacnincstricken humanity and, between all the goings up and the whole of the comings down and the fog of the cloud in which we toil and the cloud of the fog under which we labour, bomb the thing's to be domb about it so that, beyond indicating the locality, it is felt that one cannot with advantage add a very great deal to the
aforegoing
by what, such as it is to be, follows, just mentioning however that the old man of the sea and the old woman in the sky if they don't say nothings about it they don't tell us lie, the gist of the pantomime, from cannibal king to the property horse, being, slumply and slopely, to remind us how, in this drury world of ours, Father Times and Mother Spacies boil their kettle with their crutch.
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Finnegans |
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American polls suggest that atheists and agnostics far out- number religious Jews, and even
outnumber
most other particular religious groups.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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Constitution disregarded; the country
distracted
by rebel-
lions and civil wars until 1851.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Outlines and Refernces for European History |
|
Gabriel descends again to earth, the stars silently saluting him with
a
universal
morn.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
|
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.
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| Source: |
Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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510; the
scholiast
knows of no such feats in connexion with him; and the feats ascribed to him by authors ap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Theocritus - Idylls |
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Not simply war and peace, moreover, but
international
politics in gen- eral was to be understood through study of the states and the statesmen, the elites and the bureaucracies, the subnational and the transnational actors whose behav- iors and interactions form the substance of international affairs.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
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The ghetto was the gateway to
Auschwitz
for many prisoners.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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Living Rome, the
ornament
of the world,
Now dead, remains the world's monument.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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He and the poet, arm in arm, still talking
together
as they went
along, proceeded to the spot.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The Literary World - Seventh Reader |
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Even though you practice in such a way that there is not even as much as a hair tip of a
concrete
reference point to cultivate by meditating, do not stray into ordinary deluded diffusion, even for a single moment.
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Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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Tzetzes in the twelfth century, in his huge poem, nearly
thirteen
" chiliads " in length, gives Lucian, of course, his due place among some four hundred authors cited, from Homer down to Byzantine times.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Allinson - Lucian, Satirist and Artist |
|
" Unfortunately, such a
sovereign
conception cannot be acquired overnight and is not free.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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I think
that’s
just silly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
|
It is a Great Bliss that is experienced
although
it cannot be identified (as this or that).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wang-ch-ug-Dor-je-Mahamudra-Eliminating-the-Darkness-of-Ignorance |
|
Other
trumpets
joined in
the clamor — all from the rear, none forward; — from the latter
quarter only a rising sound of voices in tumult heard briefly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Giostrar da sol a sol volea ciascuno,
e preso e morto
rimanere
inante
ch'incontra un sol volere andar più d'uno.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso |
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And as hieroglyphics were
before letters, so parables were before arguments; and nevertheless now
and at all times they do retain much life and rigour, because reason
cannot be so
sensible
nor examples so fit.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bacon |
|
But they have never proved that they had
the right to
confound
them; and when they have shown, what is not
difficult to understand, that we form a part of nature, they forget, on
the other hand, that we are excepted from nature by all the charac-
teristics that constitute the normal definition of humanity.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Homer - Odyssey - Greek |
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Please pay
attention
to our dessins.
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Thy mighty combatant to thee Conveys the meed of victory ,
That bids the herald ' s loud acclaim
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20 father Acron
Join with thy new -built walls name
From Pelops and Enomaus pleasant seat Pallas our loved city guardian pride
The victor comes with festal hymn greet Thy solemn grove and fair Oanus tide The native lake the sacred source
Whence Hipparis directs course And pours the thirsting host lave
Thro long canals his fruitful wave Transported down whose rapid tide
Beams for the stable fabrics glide
When Psaumis rears the wonderous pile
Lightens his country woes and
renovates
her smile But labor still and cost his steps attend
Whose virtue strives gain this glorious end Around his path uncertain hazards wait
And clouds obscure the mighty combat fate Yet when his persevering toils succeed
nation voice confirms the wisdom the deed
Hear Earth protecting Sovereign Jove
Who dwell enthron
the Cronian mount whose care
And
And Ida
Protects hear thy suppliant prayer
Who breathing his Lydian reed
Implores thee still crown this state with valor meed
Alpheus widely
flowing wave
venerable cave
clouds above
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He
promised
'a new start'.
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Our sensations are purely passive, whereas all our percep-
tions or ideas spring from an active
principle
which judges.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 - Rab to Rus |
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Could I but conquer this hell of
discontent
-- this fire
of love that now consumes my heart, then might I rest
in peace.
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Catullus - Lamb - A Comedy in Verse |
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12), he or she could be
everyone
or
anyone.
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The traditional class-system of the estates of the
realm and the organization of government de-
pendent from it the King upheld more strictly
than his father; he helped with
instruction
and
ruthless coercion, with gifts and loans, as often
as the role which was prescribed for the peasant,
the citizen, or the nobleman in the household of
the nation no longer seemed to suffice him.
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Some hams
hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial, and the barrel of beer
in the
scullery
was stove in with a kick from Boxer's hoof, -otherwise
nothing in the house was touched.
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Just so man's boasted strength and power
Shall fade before death's lightest stroke,
Laid lower than the meanest flower,
Whose pride oer-topt the oak;
And he who, like a blighting blast,
Dispeopled worlds with war's alarms
Shall be himself
destroyed
at last
By poor despised worms.
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I'faith, so they should--for if she be but twenty now, she
may double her age before her years will
overtake
her face.
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"Now I'm
opening out like the largest
telescope
that ever was!
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
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He
seldom travels without a set, and suitable attendants; and (what
I think seems a little to savor of
singularity)
his horses are not
docked; their tails are only tied up when they are on the road.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v21 to v25 - Rab to Tur |
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Through ones' meditation one has achieved a slight insight into
emptiness
and mistakes it for a great realization.
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