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[ { "from": "human", "value": "like those of Satan in chaos, by the proper application of which every valley was to be exalted and every hill laid low; old forests seized by their shaggy tops and uprooted; old morasses drained; the tropics made cool; the eternal ices melted around the poles; the ocean itself ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The lean, like walking skeletons, go stalking pale and gloomy; The fat, like red-hot warming-pans, send hotter fancies through me; I wake from dreams of polar ice, on which I've been a slider, Like fishes dreaming of the sea and waking in the spider." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Onward." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lauterbrunnen's peasant girl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel grateful for their visitation. Away from crowded thoroughfares, from brick walls and dusty avenues, at the sight of these poor peasants I have gone in thought to the vale of Chamouny, and seen, with ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ye shall not oppress the stranger; for ye know the heart of the stranger, seeing that ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Sachem Wonolanset, who lived by the Groat Falls of Patucket, on the Merrimac." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "who first visited it in 1652, as, worn with fatigue, and wet from the passage of the sluggish Concord," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "they wound their slow way through the forest, following the growing murmur of the falls, until at length the broad, swift river stret...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "where Mr. Eliot preached from" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Scenographical Geology says of it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My friend T., favorably known as the translator of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Undine and as a writer of fine and delicate imagination, visited Spicket Falls before the sound of a hamm...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A fragment of an oak, struck off by lightning, struggles with the current midway down; while the shattered trunk frowns above the desolation, majestic in ruin. This is near the southern cliff. Farther north a crag rises out of the stream, its upper surface covered with green clo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "of a clean and decent dress. I recollect on one occasion hearing my mother tell our family physician that a woman in the neighborhood, not remarkable for her tidin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is it not lawful to do good on the Sabbath day?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "but I confess a special dislike of disfigured faces, ostentatious displays of piety, pride aping humility. Asceticism, moroseness, self-torture, ingratitude in view of down-showering bless...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Also in the lengthening troop see I some clad in robes of triumph, Whose fair and sunny faces I have known and loved on earth. Welcome, ye glorified Loves, Graces, Sciences, and Muses, That, like Sisters of Charity, tended in this world's hospital; Welcome, for verily I knew ye ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of voluptuous leisure. From this time henceforward for half a weary year, from the bell-call of morning twilight to half-past seven in the evening, with brief intermissions for two hasty meals, the operatives will be confined to their tasks. The proverbial facility of the Yankee...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The age shows, to my thinking, more infidels to Adam, Than directly, by profession, simple infidels to God." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What ails you? asked the boy at length." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What makes you lie there?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you doing there?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm taking comfort," }, { "from": "human", "value": "May you eat dirt!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nature is loved as the city of God, although, or rather because, it has no citizen. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We dare n't go a-hunting For fear of little men. Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, Gray cock's feather." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Doth any man doubt, he asks," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The auld gude wife's wheel-hoordet nits Are round an' round divided; An' mony lads and lassies' fates Are there that night decided. Some kindle couthie side by side An' burn thegither trimly; Some start awa wi' saucy pride And jump out owre the chimlie." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ye little skelpan-limmer's face, How dare ye try sic sportin', An' seek the foul thief ony place For him to try your fortune? Nae doubt but ye may get a sight; Great cause ye hae to fear it; For mony a one has gotten a fright, An' lived and died delecrit." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "it is, nevertheless, also true that around it the simple superstitions of our ancestors still love to linger; and there the half-sportful, half-serious charms of which I have spoken are oftenest resorted to. It would be altogether out of place to think of them by our black, unsi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "although the same could scarcely be said of her children's trousers and her own frock of homespun. She confidently predicted that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "being, in fact, the only thing hopeful about the premises. And it did come, sure enough. Not only all the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Full merrily rings the mill-stone round; Full merrily rings the wheel; Full merrily gushes out the grist; Come, taste my fragrant meal. The miller he's a warldly man, And maun hae double fee; So draw the sluice in the churl's dam And let the stream gae free!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And there the little country girls Will stop to whisper, listen, and look, And tell, while dressing their sunny curls, Of the Black Fox of Salmon Brook." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now he 's passed the bolted door Where the rusted horse-shoe clings; So carry the nets to the nearest shore, And take what the Shad Spirit brings." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Turn the weeding hook aside And spare the symbol dear." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the autumn of last year a" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O'er bog, o'er steep, through straight, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which my mother describes as a large clasped volume in strange language and black-letter type, and after due reflection and consideration gave the required answers without money and without price. The curious old volume is still in the possession of the conjurer's family. Appare...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Learned the art of glammarye In Padua, beyond the sea;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "that his" }, { "from": "human", "value": "is compared to that of Hermes and Agrippa. He is complimented as a master of the mysteries of Rome and Germany, and as one who ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She roamed the country far and near, Bewitched the children of the peasants, Dried up the cows, and lamed the deer, And sucked the eggs, and killed the pheasants." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tramp, tramp, along the shore they ride, Splash, splash, along the sea." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A sweet, attractive kind of grace; A full assurance given by looks; Continual comfort in a face; The lineaments of Gospel books." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Handsome is that handsome does,--hold up your heads, girls! was the language of Primrose in the play when a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Spirits moving musically To a lute's well-ordered law," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have seen, said Charles Lamb," }, { "from": "human", "value": "In that simple and beautiful record of a holy life, the Journal of John Woolman, there is a passage of w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the times of the first missionaries of the cross, from the Gothic temples of the Middle Ages, from the bleak mountain gorges of the Alps, where the hunted heretics put up their expostulation," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How long, O Lord, how long?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of these believers. Sensual images,--semi-Mahometan descriptions of the condition of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--exultations over the destruction of the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I muse on joys that cannot cease, Pure spaces filled with living beams, White lilies of eternal peace, Whose odors haunt my dreams." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Swinging the scaly horrors of his folded tail." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are some among us at the present moment who are waiting for the speedy coming of Christ. They expect, before another year closes, to see Him in the clouds, to hear His voice, to stand before His judgment- seat. These illusions spring from misinterpretation of Scripture lan...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sea of the Woods are all too familiar, overtook them. The weather was intensely cold for the season; the air was filled with snow and sleet; the chilled water made ice rapidly, encumbering the schooner, and loading down her decks and rigging. As the gale increased, the tops of t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is our last chance. I will try! If I live, follow me; if I drown, stay where you are!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I don't know, she said, slowly, as if pondering the matter for the first time,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know as I did more 'n I'd ought to, nor more'n I'd do again." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After his second shipwreck last summer, I think likely that I must have recurred very fresh to him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "PUNCHINELLO," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rice--rice for Buddha, he would say." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rice for the Living Buddha, to give him strength. Rice for the Great One, that he may grow mighty. Rice for the strength to cast off our bonds." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The headquarters of New Buddhism is on a small volcanic island called Yat, off the east coast of Celebes. Your job is to reach that island and find out what's going on, and then bring the information back. Clear?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where does the Great One live?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In Celebes, where you are going," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, said Baker innocently," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then perhaps it could be arranged for us to meet him?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know, he remarked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gossip is a creative art. There is a large monastery at our central temple, and much is needed to maintain its activities." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Truth, said Baker pontifically," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The American Consulate, gentlemen," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning, I'm Stimson. Hope Avery didn't give you too wild a ride, but I thought it best not to advertise my interest in you at the front door. Things have changed a bit in the last few days. Well, Avery will show you to your rooms. I'll be in the upstairs study when you're ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're well briefed on the general situation. Reid gave me the gist of his conversation. But there are some other things that even Reid doesn't know." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're aware of the efforts that have been made to look into the crater on Yat. To dat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Before I tell you our guesses, replied the consul," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd like to hear your reactions." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would appear that the New Buddhists are doing the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, there you have it, at least as far as the picture is concerned. The Buddhists were considerably upset, for they tightened up security all over the islands. And then you came into the scene. Naturally nobody believed that you were just after Celebese man, but the governor g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your first objective is to find out what they're doing in that crater. Are they building some new weapon, or training an army, or what. You'll have Geiger counters and a krypton analyser of course, although the analyser is no guarantee in detecting fissionable material productio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Practically dead calm tonight, said the co-pilot reassuringly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wind usually dies out at sunset. You won't have any trouble getting through. Just watch your step when you're ashore." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's alw...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you sure we're on the right island? asked Chamberlin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From the security measures I don't think we're going to find anything more secret than a copra plantation." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We're on the right island,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll be damned" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good God, it's something alive!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It can't be--why, it's two hundred feet high--it's just a gas bag, like Stimson said. It's--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can stand now, yes?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would appear, he said dryly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A human being, he said slowly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But it's impossible. The laws of mechanics--why the biggest dinosaurs were only eighty feet long, and they had to be supported by water. It's a mechanical device, I tell you." }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Obviously, Baker said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was evidently thinking out loud." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Probably picked us up on the beach, and then just let us go on, clearing out the guards ahead, and keeping near enough to see that w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Its movements were lifelike, I replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They suggest muscular action rather than mechanical drive. But, as Walt says, it's just not possible. Nature has placed a limit on the size of living creatures. The strength of bones, the energy r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning, gentlemens, he said with a bow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You spend nice night, yes? Get plenty sleep?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now please to come with me. Head Lama talk to you now." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Getting near the high brass," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Phobat Rau! So you're back of this, after all!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a great pleasure to have you here, Professor Baker, although there is in the circumstances some cause for regret. But all that in its time. What do you think of our Buddha?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Until we have more data, replied Baker," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're a good observer, Professor. Yes, I must confess I was curious about your reactions to our charge. So you doubt that he is alive?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Under the circu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His reading room. Books on his scale would be a bit difficult to make, so he uses microfilm and a projector. The microfilm, he added," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So now, said our host," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Several, if you can spare the time...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But these things you well know. Afterwards biologists and physicians and geneticists came from all parts of the world to study the effects of the atomic bomb, and the flow of learned papers on this subject is not ended even now." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After the passage of three more weeks, a delegation from the temple again waited upon Mr. Takahashi, with the news that his son now measured 9 feet 3 inches in length, weighed 1175 pounds, and consumed the entire output of a local dairy. They politely requested that he take care...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was at this point that a member of the Buddhist priesthood from Burma happened to pass through the neighborhood and heard of the infant. After being sworn to secrecy; even from other members of his order, he was allowed to view little Kazu. Now this priest, whose name I might...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We had no choice. Now that the secret was out, Russia had Yat at its mercy. So we agreed, but with one reservation. We alone should direct the education of Kazu. To this Russia agreed. Perhaps they considered that it was unimportant. Perhaps they thought that Kazu was an idiot, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen, you probably wonder why I have spoken so frankly of all of this. To be candid, to a certain extent I wonder also. Perhaps it is to get it off my chest, as you say. Perhaps it is just pride in what I have done. But whatever the reason, the consequences for you are regr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No use trying to argue with him. Fact is, we won't even see Rau again. We could, of course, simply call it quits and wait for them, but I'd rather fight it out. Anyone have an idea?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing we can do until they come for us. We'd better plan towards that, unless they're going to gas us through the ventilator." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, about 250 feet per step. That would be three thousand feet--six tenths of a mile. Wonder where--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was a voice, he explained." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think it was _his_ voice. It was speaking Japanese. I couldn't catch many words, but I think he was talking about us." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Couldn't make it out. I think he was inquiring where we were, but it was too idiomatic. I think he became excited or angry at the last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fee, fi, fo, fum, said Chamberlin." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now wouldn't _that_ ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good afternoon, how are you? Chief Priest ask me to tell you, Buddha wish to see you. Please you come with me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good afternoon, Professor Baker and party. I am happy to meet you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good afternoon. We also are happy, and most honored. How should we address you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My name is Kazu Takahashi, but I am told that I am also Buddha. This I would like to discuss with you, if you have time." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come back, he called urgently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are in grave danger. You must come in." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please come in. I was hasty this morning. I am sorry. I think now I see a way for you to return safely, if you will come in." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take us away from here, if you wish to hear what we have to say. Take us, or they will kill us!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have saved our lives. We thank you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My teachers have brought others before me to lecture, but always I know that they speak only as they are told to speak. You are different. I am glad that I saw you last night, or I would never kno...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look also, replied Kazu," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very clever, gentlemen, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You took good advantage of your chance with our simple giant, did you not? Tried your best to ruin the whole work of Pan-Asia just to save your miserable skins. Well, you shall not--" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid, my friend, that you have misjudged the situation. I admit that we jumped into Buddha's hand to escape from Phobat Rau, but if you are familiar with the expression, our leap was from the frying pan into the fire. Your giant is holding us prisoner, and even now forces ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must not allow him to become suspicious. I will continue talking over the microphone while your guards take my friends to safety." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall now show you a map of the United States and indicate the principal cities. First, on the Atlantic coast we have New York...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chicago is located at the southern end of Lake Michigan, just west of Detroit, while St. Louis--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What--how did he--?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Priests here taking us captive." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Soon will be sunset. Suggest we return to privacy of high table to discuss next move." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Phobat Rau plans for me to go soon to head armies of Asia in fight against west. My study of history has raised doubts of rightness of such war, and what you say strengthen these. Now I must see for myself, without guidance or interference from Rau. But I need assistance, to dir...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tonight I sleep in usual place, where you disturbed me with small rock slide. But you must stay awake by turns to guard against capture. In morning you direct my steps away from Yat to mainland of Asia, where--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold it! He turned to Kazu who had a spoonful poised halfway to his mouth." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kazu, don't eat. This rice is doped!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He says, 'how dare you poison Buddha'--Look, they're running off--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yat is not safe, even for Buddha. Now we must leave here at once." } ]