Philisophy does not begin in an experience of wonder, as ancient tradition contends, but rather, I think, with the indeterminate but palpable sense that something desired has not been fulfilled, that a fantastic effort has failed.
Infinitely Demanding –…
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Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
Philisophy does not begin in an experience of wonder, as ancient tradition contends, but rather, I think, with the indeterminate but palpable sense that something desired has not been fulfilled, that a fantastic effort has failed.
Infinitely Demanding –…
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
Philisophy does not begin in an experience of wonder, as ancient tradition contends, but rather, I think, with the indeterminate but palpable sense that something desired has not been fulfilled, that a fantastic effort has failed.
Infinitely Demanding – Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance, Simon Critchley (2007)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
“Remember me to all my friends and relations – I wish you and others of the family as many as can write to write to me often and tell me about every thing and any thing,” Henry Watson begged his father, “about every body and thing I care any thing about.”
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
“Remember me to all my friends and relations – I wish you and others of the family as many as can write to write to me often and tell me about every thing and any thing,” Henry Watson begged his father, “about every body and thing I care any thing about.”
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
“Remember me to all my friends and relations – I wish you and others of the family as many as can write to me often and tell me about every thing and any thing,” Henry Watson begged his father, “about every body and thing I care any thing about.”
Ebony & Ivory – Race, Slavery and the Troubled History of America’s Universities, Craig Steven Wilder (2013)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
Plane’s due to take off in a few minutes.
Brother West – Living and Loving Out Loud – A Memoir, Cornell West with David Ritz (2009)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
Plane’s due to take off in a few minutes.
Brother West – Living and Loving Out Loud – A Memoir, Cornell West with David Ritz (2009)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
Plane’s due to take off in a few minutes.
Brother West – Living and Loving Out Loud – A Memoir, Cornell West with David Ritz (2009)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
We are a nation living with two sets of laws, one public law as guided by the Constitution and a second, invisible text that exists between the lines of that document.
American Coup – How A Terrified Government Is Destroying The Constitution, William M.…
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
We are a nation living with two sets of laws, one public law as guided by the Constitution and a second, invisible text that exists between the lines of that document.
American Coup – How A Terrified Government Is Destroying The Constitution, William M.…
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
We are a nation living with two sets of laws, one public law as guided by the Constitution and a second, invisible text that exists between the lines of that document.
American Coup – How A Terrified Government Is Destroying The Constitution, William M. Arkin (2013)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
In his magisterial work A Study of History, British historian Arnold J. Toynbee tells the story of how civilizations rise and fall through the dynamics of challenge and response.
Who Stole The American Dream?, Hedrick Smith (2013)
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In his magisterial work A Study of History, British historian Arnold J. Toynbee tells the story of how civilizations rise and fall through the dynamics of challenge and response.
Who Stole The American Dream?, Hedrick Smith (2013)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
In his magisterial work A Study of History, British historian Arnold J. Toynbee tells the story of how civilizations rise and fall through the dynamics of challenge and response.
Who Stole The American Dream?, Hedrick Smith (2013)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
Yesterday morning as I was about to enter the lecture hall, I was stopped by a Christian student who asked me in a voice eager with malice, “Have you heard about the Emperor Theodosius?”
Julian, Gore Vidal (1964)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
Yesterday morning as I was about to enter the lecture hall, I was stopped by a Christian student who asked me in a voice eager with malice, “Have you heard about the Emperor Theodosius?”
Julian, Gore Vidal (1964)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
Yesterday morning as I was about to enter the lecture hall, I was stopped by a Christian student who asked me in a voice eager with malice, “Have you heard about the Emperor Theodosius?”
Julian, Gore Vidal (1964)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
Never in the Americas has an event of such extraordinary character, with such deep roots and such far-reaching consequences for the destiny of the continent’s progressive movements taken place as our revolutionary war.
Cuba: Exceptional Case or Vanguard…
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
Never in the Americas has an event of such extraordinary character, with such deep roots and such far-reaching consequences for the destiny of the continent’s progressive movements taken place as our revolutionary war.
Cuba: Exceptional Case or Vanguard…
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
Never in the Americas has an event of such extraordinary character, with such deep roots and such far-reaching consequences for the destiny of the continent’s progressive movements taken place as our revolutionary war.
Cuba: Exceptional Case or Vanguard in the Struggle Against Colonialism, Che Guevara, (1961)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
On January 30, 1835, as Andrew Jackson exited a congressman’s funeral, an assassin drew a weapon and pointed it at the president.
The United States of Paranoia, Jesse Walker (2013)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
On January 30, 1835, as Andrew Jackson exited a congressman’s funeral, an assassin drew a weapon and pointed it at the president.
The United States of Paranoia, Jesse Walker (2013)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
On January 30, 1835, as Andrew Jackson exited a congressman’s funeral, an assassin drew a weapon and pointed it at the president.
The United States of Paranoia, Jesse Walker (2013)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night.
The Autobiography of Malcom X As Told To Alex Haley, (1964)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night.
The Autobiography of Malcom X As Told To Alex Haley, (1964)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night.
The Autobiography of Malcom X As Told To Alex Haley, (1964)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
As the Exxon Valdez churned through chalky turquoise port waters toward the Gulf of Alaska, Captain Joseph Hazelwood descended to his quarters.
Private Empire – ExxonMobil and American Power, Steve Coll (2012)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
As the Exxon Valdez churned through chalky turquoise port waters toward the Gulf of Alaska, Captain Joseph Hazelwood descended to his quarters.
Private Empire – ExxonMobil and American Power, Steve Coll (2012)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
As the Exxon Valdez churned through chalky turquoise port waters toward the Gulf of Alaska, Captain Joseph Hazelwood descended to his quarters.
Private Empire – ExxonMobil and American Power, Steve Coll (2012)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
As the bus entered the prefectural capital of Takamatsu, garden suburbs transformed into city streets of multicolored neon, headlights of oncoming cars, and checkered lights of office buildings.
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
As the bus entered the prefectural capital of Takamatsu, garden suburbs transformed into city streets of multicolored neon, headlights of oncoming cars, and checkered lights of office buildings.
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan.
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan.
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan.
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentences
The most surprising aspects of the imposition of colonialism on Africa were its suddenness and its unpredictability.
African Perspectives on Colonialism, A. Adu Boahen (1987)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentences
The most surprising aspects of the imposition of colonialism on Africa were its suddenness and its unpredictability.
African Perspectives on Colonialism, A. Adu Boahen (1987)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentences
The most surprising aspects of the imposition of colonialism on Africa were its suddenness and its unpredictability.
African Perspectives on Colonialism, A. Adu Boahen (1987)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
In eight short years Horatio Nelson, already a rear admiral and a national hero, turned himself into a major international figure and a deathless icon.
Nelson – The Sword of Albion, John Sugden (2013)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
In eight short years Horatio Nelson, already a rear admiral and a national hero, turned himself into a major international figure and a deathless icon.
Nelson – The Sword of Albion, John Sugden (2013)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
In eight short years Horatio Nelson, already a rear admiral and a national hero, turned himself into a major international figure and a deathless icon.
Nelson – The Sword of Albion, John Sugden (2013)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
When this unpleasant remark is made about you, stand up, making sure your flies are closed and announce in a firm voice.
‘To hell with that shit.’
The Unexpurgated Code – A Complete Manual of Survival and Manners, J. P. Donleavy (1975)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
When this unpleasant remark is made about you, stand up, making sure your flies are closed and announce in a firm voice.
‘To hell with that shit.’
The Unexpurgated Code – A Complete Manual of Survival and Manners, J. P. Donleavy (1975)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
When this unpleasant remark is made about you, stand up, making sure your flies are closed and announce in a firm voice.
‘To hell with that shit.’
The Unexpurgated Code – A Complete Manual of Survival and Manners, J. P. Donleavy (1975)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
Who are you?
A Paradise Built in Hell – The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, Rebecca Solnit (2009)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
Who are you?
A Paradise Built in Hell – The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, Rebecca Solnit (2009)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
Who are you?
A Paradise Built in Hell – The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, Rebecca Solnit (2009)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
I was born in 16 April 1889, at eight o’clock at night, in East Lane, Walworth.
My Autobiography, Charles Chaplin (1964)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
I was born in 16 April 1889, at eight o’clock at night, in East Lane, Walworth.
My Autobiography, Charles Chaplin (1964)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
Before Westminster Bridge was open, Kennington Road was only a bridle path.
My Autobiography, Charles Chaplin (1964)
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When I started this research eight years ago there wasn’t much interest in ordinary people’s views on the unfairness of the economy.
The Moral Underground – How Ordinary Americans Subvert An Unfair Economy, Lisa Dodson (2009)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
When I started this research eight years ago there wasn’t much interest in ordinary people’s views on the unfairness of the economy.
The Moral Underground – How Ordinary Americans Subvert An Unfair Economy, Lisa Dodson (2009)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
When I started this research eight years ago there wasn’t much interest in ordinary people’s views on the unfairness of the economy.
The Moral Underground – How Ordinary Americans Subvert An Unfair Economy, Lisa Dodson (2009)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
The action takes place in a large commercial town of the East.
Scenario of the Ballet – The Struggle of The Magicians, G. I. Gurdjieff, (2008)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
The action takes place in a large commercial town of the East.
Scenario of the Ballet – The Struggle of The Magicians, G. I. Gurdjieff, (2008)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
The action takes place in a large commercial town of the East.
Scenario of the Ballet – The Struggle of The Magicians, G. I. Gurdjieff, (2008)
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About a mile beyond the main square in the village of Józefów, in Eastern Poland, several dozen wooden stakes poke out among the weeds and bushes on a patch of forest strewn with pinecones and covered in velvety green moss.
Beautiful Souls – Saying No,…
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
About a mile beyond the main square in the village of Józefów, in Eastern Poland, several dozen wooden stakes poke out among the weeds and bushes on a patch of forest strewn with pinecones and covered in velvety green moss.
Beautiful Souls – Saying No,…
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
About a mile beyond the main square in the village of Józefów, in Eastern Poland, several dozen wooden stakes poke out among the weeds and bushes on a patch of forest strewn with pinecones and covered in velvety green moss.
Beautiful Souls – Saying No, Breaking Ranks, And Heeding The Voice of Conscience in Dark Times, Eyal Press (2012)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami.
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (2007)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami.
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (2007)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami.
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (2007)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
On the day of the big rescue, Wil Brierson took a walk on the beach.
Marooned in Realtime, Vernor Vinge (1986)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
The late Sadiq Neihoum, Libya’s preeminent political philosopher of the 1970s and 1980s, and a onetime advisor to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, wrote the fable from which the above passage is taken in the late 1970s.
Exit the Colonel – The Hidden History of The Libyan Revolution, Ethan Chorin (2013)
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Here was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid.
The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real, Margery Williams (1922)
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On the bright and breezy Sunday morning of April 15, 2012, my colleagues and I left NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) headquarters in Kabul to meet with Afghan journalists, government officials, and civil society leaders to discuss the security and political situation in Afghanistan and the transition to a much reduced international presence after 2014.
Aspiration and Ambivalence – Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State Building in Afghanistan, Vanda Felbab-Brown (2013)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
It’s July 19, 2012, and it’s as hot as the hobs of hell here.
The Anatomy of Violence – The Biological Roots of Crime, Adrian Raine (2013)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
On the third floor of the Richelieu Wing of the Louvre in Paris is a gallery devoted to “Holland, First Half of the 17th Century.”
The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter – A Portrait of Descartes, Steven Nadler (2013)
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In December, 2009, patrons of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, experienced a mild jolt of biological future shock when their pre-performance and intermission drinks – their beers, wines, and sodas – were served to them in a new type of clear plastic cup.
Regenesis – How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves, George Church and Ed Regis (2012)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
I was inspired to write this book because I found something missing in the popular literature on sexuality.
Soulful Sex – Opening Your Heart, Body & Spirit To Lifelong Passion, Dr. Victoria Lee (1996)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
Among my earliest memories are those of being down at the railroad depot with my grandfather, watching the trains come in.
Rival Rails – The Race to Build America’s Greatest Transcontinental Railroad, Walter R. Borneman (2010)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
Wall Street has always been a dangerous place.
Money and Power – How Goldman Sachs Came To Rule The World, William D. Cohen (2011)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
“The Jonas Brothers are here.”
The Thistle and the Drone – How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam, Akbar Ahmed (2013)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
When Sean Devine and Jimmy Marcus were kids, their fathers worked together at the Coleman Candy plant and carried the stench of warm chocolate back home with them.
Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
“Hey, what does your guy look like again?”
Winged Obsession, Jessica Speart (2011)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
Many students believe that the study of history involves nothing more than memorizing dates, names, battles, treaties, and endless numbers of similar, often uninteresting facts with no apparent relevance to their lives and concerns.
The Human Record – Sources from Global History Vol. 1, Andrea Overfield (2001)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
One evening in 1871, an association of learned British gentlemen, the Red Lions, gathered in Edinburgh, Scotland, to feed happily together and entertain each other with humorous songs and speeches.
Forbidden Archaeology – The Hidden History of the Human Race, Michael A. Cremo & Richard L. Thompson (1993)
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Morals reformed – health preserved – industry invigorated – instruction diffused – public burthens lightened – Economy seated, as it were, upon a rock – the gordian knot of the Poor-Laws are not cut, but untied – all by a simple idea in Architecture!
The Panopticon Writings, Jeremy Bentham (1791)
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Shortly after New Orleans physician Samuel Cartwright discovered a new disease in 1850, he realized that like all medical pioneers he faced a special burden.
The Book of Woe – The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry, Gary Greenberg (2013)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
I’ve come to believe that the first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history.
The Genius of Earth Day – How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation, Adam Rome (2013)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
The pattern to follow in helping others to understand the Bible is that provided by Jesus Christ and his apostles.
Reasoning from the Scriptures, Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania (1985)
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For some strange and unknown reason, it has for many years been considered indelicate, if not absolutely improper, to discuss matters pertaining to sex and sexual relations, and a criminal silence has been maintained which permitted innumerable girls to be morally ruined by the male sex.
Sex Talks to Boys (10 years and older), I. D. Steinhardt M.D. (1914)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
Across America on February 6, 2011, millions of people were settling into their couches, splitting open bags of nachos and spilling beer into plastic cups in preparation for the year’s biggest sporting event.
We Are Anonymous – Inside the Hacker World of Lulzsec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency, Parmy Olsen (2012)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence.
We’ve grown to appreciate the way our eyes give everything away, our hips sway, our voices flow up and down and then up again: hold me.
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? – Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, ed. by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (2012)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
American food is in crisis, and rarely has more disruption loomed before us.
An Economist Gets Lunch – New Rules for Everyday Foodies, Tyler Cowen (2012)
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This is a book about Power.
The End of Power; from boardrooms to battlefields and churches to states, why being in charge isn’t what it used to be, Moises Naim (2013)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentences
There exist moments in life, separated by longs intervals of time, but linked together by their inner content and by a certain singular sensation peculiar to them.
A New Model of the Universe: Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art, P. D. Ouspensky (1931)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
One of my major concerns for many years has been how people could prevent and destroy dictatorships.
From Dictatorship to Democracy – A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, Gene Sharp (2010)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentences
They call me Chorus Girl – shouts of “Chorus Girl” go up when I stand and swing my left leg, then my right, and so on.
The Animal-Lover’s Book of Beastly Murder, Chorus Girl’s Absolutely Final Performance, Patricia Highsmith (1975)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
Less than two weeks before The Great Deformation went to press, the powers that be in Washington pulled off a “deal” that allegedly stopped the country from going over the fiscal cliff.
The Great Deformation – The Corruption of Capitalism in America, David A. Stockman (2013)
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The Second World War was among the most destructive conflicts in human history; more than forty-six million soldiers and civilians perished, many in circumstances of prolonged and horrifying cruelty.
The Second World War A Complete History, Martin Gilbert (1989)
Functionally Literate – Opening Sentence
It is with no small amount of trepidation that I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned audience.
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, William James (1902)
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The World and this expanse – or whatever other name men are pleased to call the sky that covers the universe with it’s vault – are properly held to be a deity, everlasting, boundless, an entity without a beginning and one that will never end.
Natural History, Pliny the Elder (circa AD 77-79)
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On the 15th of September, 1840, about six o’clock in the morning, the Ville de Montereau, just about to sail, was sending forth great whirlwinds of smoke, in front of the Quai St. Bernard.
Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert (1869)
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They threw me off the hay truck about noon.
The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain (1934)
