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Detached but present; rare but classical.

Oxford
Joined March 2011
O wΓ€r’ ich eine Maus, wie wollt’ ich mich verstecken, wΓ€r’ ich so klein wie Schnecken, so krΓΆch’ ich in mein Haus! – Mein Kind, was werden wir nun sprechen?
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I have to give a sermon next Saturday morning. I’m wavering between an Emersonian musing that will alienate most of my audience and a sort of dictionary entry on the word נזם, with examples of usage
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I have to give a sermon next Saturday morning. I’m wavering between an Emersonian musing that will alienate most of my audience and a sort of dictionary entry on the word נזם, with examples of usage
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This globe makes me think of Indonesia in a completely new way 😯
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If you’re a hammerhead shark, all you can see is nails to poke your own eyes out with
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which would you say have been around longer
79%hammerhead sharks
21%flowering plants
33 votes β€’ Final results
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Sorry to remind you of the passage of time but the Sopranos series finale will be 10 years old as of next June. What a letdown that still feels like…
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In Oxford people don't speak foreign languages, they "have" them
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I recommend this approach because 1. Speaking a foreign language might tire you out or make you look like a nerd. You might also make mistakes 2. If you think of learning a language like obtaining a precious object, it's yours to keep without any more work
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β€œThe Bible is not a history book” is a statement that makes the speaker seem broadminded, but is in fact misleading and dogmatic, in that it assumes away the possibility that people might really once have understood a book like this as their own and the world’s true history
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A more straightforward thing to say might be β€œThe history told in the Bible is mostly false.” β€œThe Bible does not contain only historiographical material” β€œMany religious believers today do not think of the biblical history as history in the ordinary sense”
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β€œI can’t remember if we get an hour more or less of sleep tonight” I would simply sleep as long as I need to rest from the labours of the day
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Aww, a young man from Arlington just called in to NPO Klassiek to request his favourite piece by Cornelis Dopper
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β€œI hope everyone enjoys it as much as I do. Bedankt.”
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You’ve got to take your best friends’ last names out of your phone. Show them some affection!
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Martin Luther riffing on Jerome and women (Weimarer Ausgabe, Tischreden I, n. 445)
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