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* '' the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. '' '''-- Charles Bandelaire'''. | * '' the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. '' '''-- Charles Bandelaire'''. | ||
* '' With great power, there must also come great responsibility. '' -- '''Ben Parker''', AMAZING FANTASY #15, August, 1962 (aka. Stan "the Man" Lee) | * '' With great power, there must also come great responsibility. '' -- '''Ben Parker''', AMAZING FANTASY #15, August, 1962 (aka. Stan "the Man" Lee) | ||
+ | * ''All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing'' '''-- Edmund Burke'''. | ||
+ | * ''Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.'' '''-- Pliny the Elder'''. | ||
+ | * ''Since he has cultivated his soul, already richer than any other man's, he thereby reaches the unknown, and, even if, insane in the end, he should lose everyone shred of understanding gained so laboriously, he will have had his visions! He may perish in his leap into those innumberable, unnameable things, there will follow other terrible workers. They will begin at the horizons where he fell.'' -- '''Arthur Rimbaud''' | ||
* ''What has happened here was caused by a force which, up until a few days ago, was entirely beyond the scope of man's imagination. ... a smoldering memorial to the unknown, which at this moment still prevails and could, at any time, lash out with its terrible destruction anywhere else in the world'' -- opening narration, '''GODZILLA: King of the Monsters''' | * ''What has happened here was caused by a force which, up until a few days ago, was entirely beyond the scope of man's imagination. ... a smoldering memorial to the unknown, which at this moment still prevails and could, at any time, lash out with its terrible destruction anywhere else in the world'' -- opening narration, '''GODZILLA: King of the Monsters''' | ||
* ''It is true that, whether favored by the stars or by nature, some men are born endowed with such graces that they seem not to have been born, but to have been fashioned by the hands of god... '' '''-- Baldassare Castiglione''', the Courtier | * ''It is true that, whether favored by the stars or by nature, some men are born endowed with such graces that they seem not to have been born, but to have been fashioned by the hands of god... '' '''-- Baldassare Castiglione''', the Courtier | ||
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* ''Head knowledge is good, but heart knowledge is indispensable. The training of the hands and feet must be added to make a rounded education. We must all learn these days to become spiritual pioneers if we would save the world from chaos.'' -- '''E. V. Hammond''' | * ''Head knowledge is good, but heart knowledge is indispensable. The training of the hands and feet must be added to make a rounded education. We must all learn these days to become spiritual pioneers if we would save the world from chaos.'' -- '''E. V. Hammond''' | ||
* ''The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.'' -- '''George Leonard''', US pioneer in human potential, author of 12 books, aikido black belt, senior editor of Look mag. | * ''The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.'' -- '''George Leonard''', US pioneer in human potential, author of 12 books, aikido black belt, senior editor of Look mag. | ||
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* '' Quis custodiet ipsos custodes '' '''-- Juvenal's Satire''' VI, Against Women. <br> (Tranlation: Who watches the Watchmen? The original reads: I hear all this time the advisce of my old friends - Put on a lock and keep your wife guarded behind doors. Yes, but who will watch the watchmen? The wife arranges accordingly and begins sleeping with them.) | * '' Quis custodiet ipsos custodes '' '''-- Juvenal's Satire''' VI, Against Women. <br> (Tranlation: Who watches the Watchmen? The original reads: I hear all this time the advisce of my old friends - Put on a lock and keep your wife guarded behind doors. Yes, but who will watch the watchmen? The wife arranges accordingly and begins sleeping with them.) | ||
* '' There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. '' '''-- Genesis 6:4''' | * '' There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. '' '''-- Genesis 6:4''' | ||
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* ''One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.'' -- '''Nikola Tesla''' | * ''One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.'' -- '''Nikola Tesla''' | ||
* ''...Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win...!'' -- '''Charles Dickens''' (David Copperfield) | * ''...Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win...!'' -- '''Charles Dickens''' (David Copperfield) | ||
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[[The AMERICAN GODS]] | [[The AMERICAN GODS]] |