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Not necessarily because the PR folks at Metro are inherently so poetic, but Metro's response actually brings to mind one of Goethe's most famous lines from Faust: "Die Geister, die ich rief, werd' ich nun nicht los."
John Mirisch: Fault-y Towers: Don't Mention the Core! John Mirisch 2011
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Not necessarily because the PR folks at Metro are inherently so poetic, but Metro's response actually brings to mind one of Goethe's most famous lines from Faust: "Die Geister, die ich rief, werd' ich nun nicht los."
John Mirisch: Fault-y Towers: Don't Mention the Core! John Mirisch 2011
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In the room lurks two oversized, metallic, monster-like aluminum figures, part of the Thomas Schutte's Grosse Geister series.
Museum Living 2011
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He wrote the more famous Von Bessenheit durch Fremde und Ungehere Geister (âOn the Matter of Hostile and Possessive Spiritsâ) in 1797, though it did not see print for nearly ten years.
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In the room lurk two metallic, monster-like aluminum figures, part of Thomas Schutte's Grosse Geister series.
Shocking in the Suburbs Nancy Keates 2011
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This led to the so called “Krieg der Geister” in which the polarization between Germany and France reached the point not only of criticizing the specific ways of making use of science (say practicing science with military aims) but also led to a characterization of scientific knowledge as essentially determined by national characteristics.
Mathematical Style Mancosu, Paolo 2009
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The three parts were published together in 1886 as Human All-Too-Human, A Book for Free Spirits (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, Ein Buch für freie Geister).
Friedrich Nietzsche Wicks, Robert 2008
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"Die ich rief die Geister werd 'ich nun nicht los" ( "The ghosts I called I can't get rid of now").
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Of her compositions, the most ambitious is an overture to the play "Die Geister Insel."
Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson
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He heard the strains of an orchestra; lingering he had missed the overture, and it might be the first duet -- with Geister in superb voice.
The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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