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"Material about Hitler at the webpage"

"I want to describe the Body as a Book, a Book as a Body, and this Body and this Book will be the first Volume of Thirteen Volumes."

"I can frankly affirm that I have written with malice toward none and with charity for all. ...I have tried—so far as erring human judgment permits—to lift the issues out of the plane of personal selfi…"

"House of Incest: Exile from the Family" in Modernist Women's Literature on women of the Left Bank"

"Everyone who has read your book are unanimous in their judgment. They all think it is politically harmful for us. There is no point in giving it for an evaluation to the writers Fedin, Leonov, Ehrenbu…"

"In Truman Library speech, Annan says UN remains best tool to achieve key goals of international relations"

"Turgot Page by Paulette Taïeb"

"If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields."

"This book is the account of a personal experience — so personal that for four years I could not bring myself to write it. It is different from anything else I have ever written. My other books have be…"

"The criminal clearly wasn't expecting to find me there. He looked back at me with an expression of sheer balaclava written all over his face."

"'He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear;' it was no delusion! What is written is written, and he that readeth let him understand."

"Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity. … There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of developm…"

"A difference of opinion with regard to measures to be taken against Spain, of the highest importance to the honour of the crown, and to the most essential national interests, and this founded on what …"

"There is seldom a line of glory written upon the earth's face, but a line of suffering runs parallel with it; and they that read the lustrous syllables of the one, and stoop not to decipher the spotte…"

"The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously…"

"If any of my readers set out with the notion that that all races of men think and act much in the same way as educated Englishmen, the evidence of superstitious belief and custom collected in this wor…"

"Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but they are starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has b…"

"Thus, even if we accept that the people are deviously neurotic rather than outright irrational, we still must specify exactly how they believe that the rest of us can be fooled by them. Throughout the…"

"A translator has divided loyalties. He has a duty to his author, a duty to his reader and a duty to the text. The three are by no means identical and are often hard to reconcile."

"For all their focusing on the all-purpose bogey of Hindu nationalism , it is remarkable that Indian Marxists and their Western disciples have completely failed to study this ideology. During my Ph.D. …"