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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Views in Theology; Dr. Griffin, in a late work on" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Divine Efficiency; Rev. Tyler Thatcher, of the Hopkinsian school; and a doctrinal tract, entitled," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Man a Free Agent without the Aid of Divine...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have power to obey God, if your heart is rightly disposed, or in short hand--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can if you will. Now the verb _will_ here evidently means the right _exercise_ of the natural faculties--that is, as shown above, it means obedience. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "without Divine efficiency. By moral power; therefore, natural power is controlled. Now, to say nothing here of the absurdity of efficiently and irresistibly controlling one power by another, and yet calling that other the essence of free agency, and the basis of obligation--look...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man a Free Agent without the Aid of Divine Grace," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It consists, he says," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some writers speak of man, in his natural state, as _free only_ to evil. But in what does such freedom differ from mere instinct? With no power to do otherwise, how is he who murders a fellow creature more criminal than the tiger, or even a falling rock that destroys him? The fa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Every man is conscious that he possesses the faculties which constitute free agency." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When man, under the influence of grace, does choose the good, he is not conscious of any new faculty or power to choose, but only he uses that power in a different manner. The power or faculty which chooses evil and which chooses good, is the same power differently used. Whoever...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quick as the apple of an eye, O God! my conscience make; Awake my soul when sin is nigh, And keep it still awake." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "for the very object that we may be able" }, { "from": "human", "value": "we learn also that we may have" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He tries to keep the law, but cannot; for he finds that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hear his complaint! and that we may be sure of taking a genuine case, let us select a Bible experience from Rom. vii;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am carnal, sold...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men have loved darkness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He that believeth not is condemned already." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But they grieved his Holy Spirit, therefore he is turned...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Scriptures ascribe no other inability to man to obey God, but that which consists in or results from the perversion of those faculties which constitute him a moral agent." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What more could I have done for my vineyard?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that he" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As the consequence of Adam's fall, Adam himself and all his posterity became incapable of committing another sin. 2." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every sinful action performed in this world, since the fall of Adam, has been the effect of supernatural grace. 3." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This writer seems to think this a self-evident proposition, which needs no proof; for although he has used it in argument a number of times, he has left it unsustained by any thing but his naked assertion. This proposition has already been denied, and an unqualified denial is al...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and yet he adds," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sin is not imputed (he does not say sin does not exist,) where there is no law. The fact there are certain dispositions and acts that are _in their nature_ opposite to holiness, whatever may be the power of the subject ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Because God, if he held man accountable, was bound to give him this ability, as a matter of justice; hence it is not an ability by grace, but an ability by justice. The whole of this reasoning, and much more, goes upon the principle, that the _completion_ of a plan of grace, aft...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man needed the grace of God, _both_" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "_and_" }, { "from": "human", "value": "--4." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The moral difference between one man and another is--to be ascribed to God. How any one could think a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This will I do if God permit." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You _can_, and you _cannot;_" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. If any one doubts whether" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as expressed in this text, means regeneration, the next verse will settle it--" }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "though the saints are commanded to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "that they may be" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "though some of the Corinthian Christians were" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Set your affection on things above, and not on things on the earth." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For, says he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And this is the fact in most cases of genuine awakening. Resolutions are formed, but the current of the unsanctified affections sweeps them away. Over the untowardness of the u...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But he must do it with right motives, you say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed! Suppose then that he has resolved to serve God, from right motives, what if he should afterward resolve, from false shame or fear, to neglect a duty, is he now unregenerate? This is...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God, John i, 12, 13. This is a two-edged sword--it cuts off, as we have ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is this but the New Divinity? The will is here made, most explicitly, the sole seat of depravity; and regeneration is an act of the will. But every act of the will is the sinner's _own act_, and therefore the agent, by that ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All men may be saved if they will --" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No man is hindered from coming to Christ who is willing to come --that is, since to will and to be willing is to be regenerated, this language gravely teaches us," }, { "from": "human", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I find the will often confounded with several of the affections, especially desire, and one put for the other. This he thinks is an error, of which" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "will be convinced. Rev. Professor Upham, of Bowdoin College, Maine, himself a Calvinist,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If so, then man has power, at any time, by an act of the will, to love God. Let him try--let that unholy sinner try. Can he succeed? You say perhaps, for so the Calvinists have said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He can if he will; that is, he can will to love God i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whenever there is a want of harmony in the mind, there is always a greater or less degree of enthralment. And then he proceeds to show how the mind may be enslaved by the _propensities_, _appetites_, _affections,_ and _passions_. He illustrates; for example, the progress of this...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see, says the apostle," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "_The law of sin in his members_ was undoubtedly the carnal mind, the unholy affections. These _warred_ against the _law of his mind_, his enlightened judgment, his feelings of moral obligation; and in this warfa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye _cannot_ do the things that ye _would_." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The more he strove against its power, He felt the guilt and sin the more." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "until" }, { "from": "human", "value": "until" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We should be careful to discriminate between things closely related, and yet actually distinct from each other. It is one thing to be pleased with the character of the mind as a whole, in view of its relations to the Divine law and its necessary qualifications for heaven, and an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are these conditional acts of the mind holy or unholy exercises? If holy, then the work of regeneration is accomplished already, and therefore these cannot be the _conditions_ of that change. If unholy, then they can be no other than offensive to a holy God, and therefore cannot...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, continues the objector," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is that principle of spiritual life which the Christian has in his soul when he can say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The life that I now live I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But the _act_ itself of repentance cannot be said to be _given_. This would be an absurdity. How can any one give me a mental _act?_ Hence Dr. Doddridge, although a Calvinist, very candidly and very justly remarks, on this passage, that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If then there be any antecedence in the order of the two parts of the work of grace, we must suppose that justification has the precedence, and that regeneration follows, and hence repentance and faith precede regeneration. Indeed I cannot see why repentance is not as necessary ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But the very _nature_ of repentance and of faith, the very _definition_ of the two mental states expressed by these terms, it is said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is, say some Calvinistic writers," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To believe is doubtless, in many instances, perfectly involuntary. There are numerous cases in which a man is obliged to believe, both against his will and against his desires. There are other cases, again, in which the will is not only much concerned in believing, but in which ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God must predetermine his works before he could certainly know what would take place; and hence, in the order of cause and effect, he must decree in order to know. It is readily conceded, that, in the order of nature, the Divine Being could not foreknow that a world would certai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! it is one of the results of agnosticism." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And ten tens are a hundred," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nineteen hundreds, one of the pair in dirty striped robes agreed, taking a stone from the box in front of him and throwing it away. Only one stone remained." }, { "from": "human", "value": "One mo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't like this, he said, in another and entirely different language." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know, chattel slavery's an established custom on this sector, and we have to conform to local usages, but it sickens me to have to haggle with these swine over th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The slaves are yours, noble lords," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I do not offend the noble lords, then, Coru-hin-Irigod said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beg their sufferance to depart. I and my men have far to ride if we would reach Careba by nightfall. The Lord, the Great Lord, the Lord God Safar watch between us until w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Radd's right, the captain told the new manager." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They're not local. Much darker skins, and different face-structure; faces wedge-shaped instead of oval, and differently shaped noses, and brown eyes instead of black. I've seen people like...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These are not like the others: they wear fine garments, and walk proudly. They look stern, but not cruel. They are the real masters here; the others are but servants." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know that language? he asked. When the man called Dosu Golan shoo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Want some of this, Dalla?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I'll have some of the venison, the black-haired girl beside him said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And some of the pickled beans. We'll be getting our fill of pork, for the next month." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vall's probably forgotten that he has a title," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's something the Mavrad of Mnirna and Thalvabar never forgets," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Eldra," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hello, Chief's Assistant: I'm sorry to bother you, but the Chief wants to talk to you. Just a moment, please." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, Vall. Glad I was able to locate you. When are you and Dalla leaving?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As soon as we can get away from this luncheon, here. Oh, say an hour. We're taking a rocket to Zarabar, and transposing from there to Passenger Terminal Sixteen...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I knew it, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I knew he'd find something. He's trying to break things up between us, the way he did twenty years ago.'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Really, Vall, he's never liked me, she went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's jealous of me, I think. You're to be his successor, when he retires, and he thinks I'm not a good influence--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, rubbish, Dalla! The Chie...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on back and sit down, he invited." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Be with you in a moment. Then he switched on the phone again and went on talking--something about prompter evaluation and transmission of reports and less reliance on robot equipment." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This won't interfere with your vacation, Vall, Tortha Karf was saying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I just need a little help before you transpose out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We have to catch the rocket for Zarabar in an hour and a half," },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No possibility that this agent, Skordran Kirv, could have been mistaken. He worked for a while on Kholghoor Sector, himself; knew the language by hypno-mech and by two years' use, Tortha Karf was saying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So he ordered himself back on du...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Always ready sale for slaves on the Esaron Sector, Vall was saying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And so many small independent states, and different languages, that outtimers wouldn't be particularly conspicuous." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And wit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What barbarian invasion's this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, Central Asian nomadic people, the Croutha, Tortha Karf told her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They came down through Khyber Pass about three months ago, turned east, and hit the headwa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what do you want me to do, Chief?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I have to know just what this situation's likely to develop into, and I want to know why Vulthor Tharn's been sitting on this ever since Skordran Kirv reported it to him--" }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We could do that, couldn't we, Vall? she asked, angry at herself now for giving in." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And if you want to question these slaves, I speak Kharanda, and I know how they think. And I'm a qualified and licensed narco-hypnotic technician." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the Esaron Sector like?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Third Level; probability of abortive attempt to colonize this planet from Mars about a hundred thousand years ago, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A few survivors--a shipload or so--w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Everything's set up, the pilot told them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dr. Hadron, you sit on the left; that cabinet's loaded with language tape for Acalan. Yours is loaded with a tape of Kharanda; that's the Fourth Level Kholghoor language you wanted, Chief's Assi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good work, Agent Skordran. You got onto this promptly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I tried to, sir. Do you want the dope now? We have half an hour's flight to our spatial equivalent, and another half hour in transposition." }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, what's been done since you got Agent Skordran's report?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, sir, it seems that this is more serious than we had anticipated. Field Agent Skordran, who will give you the particulars, says that there is every indication that a larg...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You haven't heard the worst of it yet. Skordran Kirv was saying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On this time line, we have reason to think that the native, Nebu-hin-Abenoz, who bought the slaves, actually saw the slavers' conveyer. Maybe even saw it activated." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We still have about forty to go, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing new in their stories; still the same two time lines." }, { "from": "human", "value": "These people, Skordran Kirv explained," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Golzan Doth, local alias Dosu Golan. I'm Consolidated Outtime Foodstuffs' manager here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nasty business for you people, Vall sympathized." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If it's any consolation, it's a bigger headache for us...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A few times, Skordran Kirv said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing suspicious; all local stuff. We questioned Coru-hin-Irigod pretty closely on that point, and he says that this is the first time he ever brought a batch of Nebu-hin-Abenoz's outlanders this far w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose I don't have to warn either of you that any positive statement made in the hearing of a narco-hypnotized subject--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Phrakor Vuln, the man who was working on the charts introduced himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Synthesist." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What have you got, so far?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Two different time lines, and two different gangs of Wizard Traders, Phrakor Vuln said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We've established the latter from physical descriptions and because both bat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's definitely Second Level Khiftan, Vall said, handing it back." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Made of braided copper or silver wire and powered with a little nuclear-conversion battery in the grip. They heat up to about two hundred centigrade; produce really pai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've seen firearms like these; have a lot of them in my collection, he said, handing back the sketches." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Low-order mechanical or high-order pre-mechanical cultures. Fact is, things like those could have been made on the Kholghoor Sector,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suicide story," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anything new?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some minor details about the sale to the Caleras on this time line. I think we've about scraped bottom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can't say t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We will not harm you, one of the psychists told them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here; here is medicine for your hurts. At first, it will sting, as good medicines will, but soon it will take away all pain. And here is wine for you to drink." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, rest for a while, the psychist was saying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rest and let the good medicine do its work. You are tired and sleepy. Look at this magic light, which brings comfort to the troubled. Look at the light. Look ... at ... the ... light." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They had the common weapons of the Croutha, lord, and they also had the weapons of the Wizard Traders. Of these, they carried the long weapons slung across their backs, and the short weapons thrust through their belts." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The servants of the Wizard Traders did not appear until after the Croutha had gone away; they wore different garb. They wore short jackets, and trousers, and short boots, and they carried small weapons on their belts--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They had whips of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will grieve no more for your child, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Already, you are forgetting what happened at the Wizard Traders' camp, and remembering only that your child is safe from harm. Soon you will remember her only as a dream of the child you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Those slaves were still chained with the Wizard Traders' chains when they were delivered here. Where are the chains?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the permanent conveyer room, Skordran Kirv said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You can look at them t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have to! he was yelling in the older man's face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's a public document, and I have a right to see it. You want me to go into Tribunes' Court and get an order? If I do, there'll be a Question in Council about why I had to, before ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marva! he barked, before the girl at the news office could more than acknowledge." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Get this recorded for immediate telecast!... Ready? Beginning: The existence of a huge paratemporal slave trade came to light on the afternoon of One-Five...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good afternoon, councilman, the newcomer said, sitting down across the desk from Salgath Trod." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was just talking to ... somebody we both know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What does Our Mutual Friend think about all thi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Waken, Faru! he shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Get up and clear the fumes from your head! We start back to Careba today!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What day's this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The day after we went to bed, ni...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're absolutely nowhere! Ranthar Jard said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course they're operating on time lines we've never penetrated. The fact that they're supplying the Croutha with guns proves that; there isn't a firearm on any of the time lines our people ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From up there, he said, speaking in Acalan, the lingua franca of the North American West Coast on that sector," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was the guidance of our gods--and yours, Coru-hin-Irigod--that we met. Such slaves as you sold at the outlanders' plantati...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He prays, Ganadara said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He thanks our gods that we have lived to see your town, and asks that we be spared to bring many more trains of rifles and ammunition up this trail." }, { "from": "human", "value": "May Safar's hand ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't even look at those, Coru-hin-Irigod advised." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are but culls; the market is almost over. We'll go to the house of Nebu-hin-Abenoz, where all the considerable men gather, and you will find those who will be able to trade slaves ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ha, lord of my daughter, you're back at last. We had begun to fear for you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing to fear, father of my wife, Coru-hin-Irigod replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We sold the slaves for a good price, and tarried the n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good, good! he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We know you Jeseru people; you're honest traders. You come this far into our mountains too seldom. We can trade with you. We need weapons. As for the sort of slaves you want, we have none too many now, but in eight ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nebu-hin-Abenoz? one of them said, bowing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are three men of the Usasu cities. We have gold _obus_ to spend; we seek a beautiful girl, to be first concubine to our king's son, who is now come to the estate of manhood." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We killed the skunks too quickly! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We should have overcome them alive, and then taken our time about dealing with them as they deserved. He went on to specify the nature of their deserts." }, { "from": "human", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, Holy Name of Safar, what manner of men were these? Coru-hin-Irigod demanded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are those I would risk my life to kill, but I would not throw it away thus." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They came knowing that we w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In all my travels, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never saw a knife of this workmanship before. Tell me, Coru-hin-Irigod, do you know from what country these outland slaves of Nebu-hin-Abenoz's come?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You think t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Car's over here, he said, nodding toward the waiting vehicle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yesterday wasn't one of our better days, was it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No. It wasn't. Vall agreed. They climbed into the car, and the driver lifted str...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll be willing to bet that if we pick up some of these Wizard Traders, say, or a gang that's selling slaves to some Nebu-hin-Abenoz personality on some other time line, and narco-hypnotize them, all they'll be able to do will be name a few immediate associates, and the group le...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Want me to call for you later, Assistant Verkan?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No thank you, Drenth. My wife and I are going to a dinner-party, and we'll probably go night-clubbing afterward. Tomorrow morning, all the anti-Management commentators will be yakking abo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Dalla!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In here!" } ]