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“[A]usterity-loving pundits and policy makers really are like medieval doctors who believed in treating illness by bleeding their patients, making the...”
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“Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of...”
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“[I]t is not particularly difficuly to move towards a solution the problem raised by Hume, which Kant believed he had solved. The belief in the...”
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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
The sea is calm tonight,
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
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I am twenty-nine, pocket flap folded
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And I am smiling I am looking out at a world that
I significantly re-created from inside
Out of...
Initiates into the Mysteries were forbidden to speak of their initiation. As expressed in the seventh-century BCE Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the revelations of the goddess to the Eleusinians are “awful mysteries which no one may in any way transgress or pry into or utter, for deep awe of the gods checks their voice.
Luther Martin, Hellenistic Religions
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