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[http://www.humanistictexts.org/al_ma'arri.htm Al-Maʿarri's poems (in English)]
Abu al-'Ala' al-Ma'arri
?Ndebele painting comes from a context of architecture. It is the painting of the house.
Esther Mahlangu
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M. R. Kale, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.53790/page/n235/mode/2up Kalidasa's Kumarasambhava Cantos I-VII] (Bombay: Standard Publishing Co., 1917)
Kālidāsa
A Sudra, whether bought or unbought he may do servile work; for he was created by the Self-Existent (Svayambhu) to be the slave of a Brahmana.
Kunwar Narain
The early Indo-Aryans could no more have thought in modern terms of the race prejudice than they could have invented the airplane.
Chokha
[http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zen/fm/fm.htm Biographical Information about Sengcan as well as the Hsin Hsin Ming itself]
Sengcan
[http://etext.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv2-70 Extended discourse in Dictionary of the History of Ideas]
Socrates (footballer)
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[https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000196/files/975_15935.html Japanese original text] of Hōjōki on Aozora Bunko
Chōmei Kamo
[http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/mzb/mzb04.htm The Hsin Hsin Ming (Verses on the Faith Mind) translated by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki]
Sengcan
[http://artofwar.thetao.info/japan/gorinsho.htm Complete text (in Japanese)]
Miyamoto Musashi
There shall be freedom of speech and debate in parliament and that freedom shall not be impeached or questioned in any Court or place out of parliament " [https://3news.com/news/full-text-speech-delivered-by-speaker-bagbin-at-november-6-press-conference/]
Osei Tutu II
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Putting Sachin Tendulkar's latest feat in a strictly cricketing context would not be fair to the sportsman. His achievements in the world of cricket need to be seen on a par with efforts in any other field - science, art, literature, etc - to push the frontiers of human excellence.
Sachin Tendulkar
[https://archive.org/stream/sextusempiricusa17556gut/17556.txt Full text of Pyrrhonic Sketches online]
Sextus Empiricus
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
Mercè Rodoreda
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The European feminist imposed the false argument “Rape is to women what lynching is to Blacks”. Women in the text suffered from double domination and double enslavement by the colonial phallocratic.
Awa Thiam
Well – yes – no. I mean, nowhere in particular.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o