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"Spinoza - Multilingual texts at BDSweb"

"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."

"A book that reveals the mind is worth more than one that only reveals its subject."

"With Alexander the stage of Greek influence spread across the world."

"I punched out Kathleen Hanna... Sonic Youth brought her. I punched her, and she screamed, "I'll take you on, any college in America, any feminist debate," and I said, "But Kathleen, that means you're …"

"In reading this author and comparing him with Epictetus, I have found that they are assuredly the two greatest defenders of the two most celebrated sects of the world, and the only ones conformable to…"

"These people, who have since antiqui possessed the most distinguished litteras in the northern part of the world, choose now to walk upon calfskin or to eat calfskin rather than to read the old words …"

"If I read a book it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only…"

"Maimonides/Rambam from the Jewish Virtual Library"

"Donald Trump came into office and killed the. ...hat partnership had serious flaws. It was written in secret, by corporate lobbyists and by lawyers involved in the trade business. It was so secretive …"

"It was Italian playwright and screenwriter Ennio Flaiano who first spoke to Fellini of Fernando Pessoa during their collaboration on I Vitelloni . Fellini claimed, however, that it was not until he lu…"

"This face seemed full of suffering, despair, confusion, so that I became uneasy again... It seemed like tiredness and defeatism spread from him to everyone close by."

"Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for granted. It is an act of understanding that can never be observed, n…"

"Take his depiction of the recent boom of right wing bloggers. The strip begins with a large man posting pro-war messages on his blog. When an e-mail asks him why he doesn’t enlist if he’s so supportiv…"

"She is like a great writer, with the power to read people; I was influenced by her. But hers wasn't a life where you could sit indoors with books."

"Literature is the new foreplay."

"Full English text of The Fatal Eggs"

"Katherine Mansfield at the New Zealand Book Council"

"Just released in 1994 is Christina Hoff Sommers’s landmark study, Who Stole Feminism?, which uses ingenious detective work to unmask the shocking fraud and propaganda of establishment feminism and the…"

"Let no man.. despair because he thinks the task too great for him; what man has done man can do, and just in proportion as we extend our aid to those whom we can help, so will those who have already a…"