Over and above the contradictions and difficulties involved in the operation of at least two governmental systems and many private systems of U.S. news communication and dissemination systems in foreign areas, there is the further problem of additional U.S. facilities.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Solution of the Cosmological Idea of the Totality of the Dependence of Phenomenal Existences In the preceding remarks, we considered the changes in the world of sense as constituting a dynamical series, in which each member is subordinated to another—as its cause.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

As Light reflected by a Lens quick-silver'd on the backside makes the Rings of Colours above described, so it ought to make the like Rings of Colours in passing through a drop of Water.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

There is a point of diseased mellowness and effeminacy in the history of society, at which society itself takes the part of him who injures it, the part of the CRIMINAL, and does so, in fact, seriously and honestly.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

PORTER. Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second cock: and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.
— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Concerning cowardice and daring, see III.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

so thinke I, the Deuill will be reddie to imitate God, as well in that as in other thinges: which is much more possible to him to doe, being a Spirite, then to a mighty winde, being but a naturall meteore, to transporte from one place to an other a solide bodie, as is commonlie and dailie seene in practise: But in this violent [pg 039] forme they cannot be carryed, but a shorte boundes, agreeing with the space that they may reteine their breath: for if it were longer, their breath could not remaine vnextinguished, their bodie being carryed in such a violent & forceable maner, as be example: If one fall off an small height, his life is but in perrell, according to the harde or soft lighting:
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

[This concise and difficult sentence is not well explained by any of the commentators.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

In these, lo and behold, I find myself unwillingly involved, for one New England habit has not been abandoned—that of consulting the wife of minister and doctor, even if holes are afterward picked in the result, and in this case a daughter stands in the wife's place.
— from People of the Whirlpool From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife by Mabel Osgood Wright

In a quarter of an hour Akim had reached Lizaveta Prohorovna's house, had galloped up to the front door, jumped out of the cart and dashed straight into the entry.
— from Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

On the third day therefrom the gray wall of the Cumberland that ran with frowning inaccessibility on their right gathered its flanks into steep gray cliffs and dipped suddenly into Cumberland Gap.
— from Erskine Dale—Pioneer by Fox, John, Jr.

He could not turn defeat to victory, but he could, and did succeed in snatching honour out of that pit into which the other leaders, and especially his master, had let it drop.
— from The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless

"The machine creates any desired situation in the auditor's mind?"
— from Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night by Algis Budrys

"You're her cousin, and Derrick says in the woman's past life will be found the motive for the crime."
— from The White Room by Fergus Hume

in the centre, by one of his claws, A dead spider is hanging surrounded by flaws
— from The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses by J. C. Manning

He took us down very comfortably along Dee side in a four horse omnibus, driven by himself, and gave me the box seat by his side.
— from Twenty-Six Years Reminiscences of Scotch Grouse Moors by William Alexander Adams

Therefore, the few remaining timbered fronts of London are gone or going; only recently some picturesque old red-roofed houses, in the close vicinity of New Oxford Street, were condemned and destroyed; Staple Inn, indeed, has been saved and patched up, owing to the prompt action of a band of public benefactors.
— from Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook

He writes: 'So far as I know the "vegetarians" of this country are decidedly superior in endurance to those feeding on animal tissues, who might [Pg 84] otherwise be expected to equal them; but these "vegetarians" would be still better if they not only ruled out animal flesh, but also eggs, the pulses (peas, beans, lentils and peanuts), eschew nuts, asparagus, and mushrooms, as well as tea, coffee and cocoa, all of which contain a large amount of uric acid, or substances physiologically equivalent to it.'
— from No Animal Food; and Nutrition and Diet; with Vegetable Recipes by Rupert H. Wheldon