The student's phrase for how visionary knowledge gives Dante purpose during exile.
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peek behind the curtain
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...isolation is that he's given a preview. He's given a peek behind the curtain. When we say that it's easier for a camel to..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...isolation is that he's given a preview. He's given a peek behind the curtain. When we say that it's easier for a camel to..."
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"...isolation is that he's given a preview. He's given a peek behind the curtain. When we say that it's easier for a camel to..."
"...difficult to say. But I think it's definitely happening behind the curtains. All right, quick break here, because if you're buying gold or silver..."
"...the United States, Russia, they're all puppets of people behind the curtain, this transnational elite. We don't know who they are, but they're actually..."
"...basement talking to a camera, or in front of a yellow curtain, like he likes to do, I don't think they would have really..."
"...theories about people pulling the strings behind, you know, behind a curtain somewhere. But they don't, they're not mutually exclusive, you can certainly do..."
"...to understand this and once we start to peel beneath the curtain, and I know what's really going on, then we can build a..."
"...matters is for us to understand who is actually behind the curtain pulling these strings, okay? Someone is doing this. It's probably not Trump..."
"...the past, the future. And wherever it spreads its own figure curtain or withdraws life's dark veil from before the scene of things, it..."
"...they they have like like they're able to pull behind a curtain and see who you really are uh and and they're doing that..."
"it's you go behind the scenes behind the curtain it's the"
"...and china and as we discussed if you look behind the curtain you'll you'll see that it's the same people behind the development of..."
"...maybe far -right nationalism, or even kind of peeking behind the curtain at 20th century ideologies here in the United States and around the..."
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