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#1 The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world. The spirits who are stopped in time retain their youth, mystery, and beauty. They may also still hold their pain, eternally.
#2 Women in academia are typically cut off from the domestic sphere, and thus from the conservative impulses that underlie this sort of folktale.
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#1 I was not pretty, and my mother did not like me. She did not think I was huggable, and she did not call me beautiful. I was too tall and ungainly. My arms and legs were too long, and I kept upsetting things.
#2 I had passed the examinations and was applying to the Jewish Preparatory School in Budapest. I was excited about the prospect of living in Budapest and meeting...
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#1 The problem of technics and its relation to culture and history first emerged in the nineteenth century. The eighteenth century, with its fundamental skepticism, had posed the question of the meaning and value of culture. But after Napoleon, the machine-technics of Western Europe grew gigantic, and we had to face the question in earnest.
#2 The aim of mankind is to relieve the...
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#1 The history of the early church is often told through the accounts of various books that were written about it. But many historians today don't believe in evidence, and instead argue that since absolute truth must always elude the historian's grasp, evidence is inevitably nothing but a biased selection of suspect facts.
#2 The world's first missionaries were...
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#1 The Freedom Sunday service at First Baptist Church, Dallas, was attended by thousands. But not everyone was happy about the billboards advertising the event, which quoted pastor Robert Jeffress as saying, America is a Christian nation.
#2 Americans hold a variety of orientations toward the intertwining of Christianity and American civil society. While most Americans...
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#1 Termites are an example of an organization that is able to adapt to change. They are small in size compared to the house they occupy, and they fiercely resist any outside interference. They object to changes in their environment because exposure to light and air kills them, and any movement of the underpinnings ruins the whole structure of tunnels and channels.
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#1 The traditional view of the Alamo defenders is that they were the highest minded of freedom fighters who died in defense of liberty, republican government, and democratic principles. However, many of the men who fought for Texas liberty were slave-owners.
#2 The Mexican government, unlike the American government, was opposed to slavery. The first Americans to settle...
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#1 I was standing on the parade ground, where the prisoners were mustering for the roll call. I had not fetched my coffee as I did not want to force my way through the crowd. My thoughts were not on the dangers lurking on such occasions, but on last night's talk.
#2 The people in the Ghetto had information that the people in the camp did not have. They were able to piece together...
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#1 Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned: the dynamics of faith are the dynamics of man's ultimate concern. Man, like every living being, is concerned about many things, but man has spiritual concerns that are extremely important and cannot be ignored.
#2 Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. The content matters immensely for the life of the believer,...
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#1 I began lecturing on A Course in Miracles in 1983. I was thirty-one years old. I was living in Los Angeles, and as anyone who was around at the time can testify, there began to be talk about a new, mysterious, and very scary disease that was spreading.
#2 I remember the pain, but I also remember the love. The people who were dying, and the people who were there to...
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#1 The Ka'ba is a small, nondescript sanctuary in Mecca that the pagan Arabs refer to as the Cube. It is where the gods of pre-Islamic Arabia reside. The pilgrims who visit the Ka'ba rotate around it seven times, some pausing to kiss each corner of the sanctuary before being swept away by the current of bodies.
#2 The pre-Islamic Arabs were not a unified group, but rather...
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#1 Priska's parents, Emanuel and Paula Rona, ran a kosher cafés in Zlaté Moravce, a town in the Slovak Republic. Her mother was a goodwife and cook, and her father was a strict disciplinarian who spoke German or Yiddish with her mother whenever he didn't want his children to understand.
#2 Priska, the daughter, was the fourth in line. She was named Piroska at birth...
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#1 A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything else in a person's life. Your beliefs define your vision of the world, your behavior, and your emotional responses to other people.
#2 The problem is that many of our most cherished beliefs about the world are leading us to kill one another. We cannot tolerate the possibility that certain ideas might lead...
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#1 Hitler's theory was that humans were simply animals, and the racial struggle for survival was a German campaign for dignity. He understood that Germany did not feed itself from its own territory in the 1920s and 1930s, but knew that Germans would not have starved if they had tried.
#2 Hitler believed that the American dream was the German people's dream, and that...
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#1 I was going to be part of a human evolution project co-managed by the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and the University of Tübingen. In the middle of all the upheaval that comes with taking on a new position, I got a phone call from Nikolai Spassov, the director of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia, Bulgaria.
#2 Spassov had found the fossilized...
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#1 Frederick Albert Cook, the second youngest son, was five years old when he saw his father in the coffin. He grew up loving the outdoors, and would spend nights under the stars. He never forgot the struggle to survive, and learned how to swim.
#2 Frederick Cook, the inventor of the milk delivery truck, was a medical student at Columbia University. He was able to get...
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#1 The earliest known evidence of the belief in ghosts is from the third millennium bc, when a clay tablet was found that contained the word ghost. However, we must suspect ghostly presences that existed much earlier than this.
#2 The first examples of simple inhumation, the deliberate creation of a space in which to deposit and cover a corpse, are only evident after...
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#1 In January 1889, Motilal Nehru, a lawyer from the north Indian city of Allahabad, traveled to Rishikesh, a town sacred to Hindus, up in the foothills of the Himalayas on the banks of the sacred river Ganga. There, he met a famous yogi who gave him a son, Jawaharlal Nehru, who would become one of the most remarkable men of the twentieth century.
#2 The young Jawaharlal...
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#1 Some Christians still worry that heathen hordes will one day arrive on American shores, armed with guns and knives, to crush our Christian way of life and destroy the American church. But instead of finding any evidence of Christianity in this country, they find the worship of actors, politicians, athletes, and imaginary figures on television.
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#1 The city of Jerusalem was the center of Jewish life for nearly 500 years, from the Persian period until the Roman Empire destroyed it in 70 C. E.
#2 The house of David and the house of God came together in Jewish tradition. The Second Temple was rebuilt by the returning exiles and the Hasmoneans, and it reached its height of splendor under Herod the Great.
#3 The...
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