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''' "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" ''' -- Juvenal's Satire VI, Against Women. 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. 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." | ||
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''' "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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''' "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. | ||
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''' "Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?" ''' -- Virgil. The Aeneid: Book I, Line II. | ''' "Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?" ''' -- Virgil. The Aeneid: Book I, Line II. | ||
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''' “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) | ||
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''' “Power corrupts… Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” ''' | ''' “Power corrupts… Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” ''' | ||
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''' “What we do not understand we fear, what we fear we destroy.” ''' | ''' “What we do not understand we fear, what we fear we destroy.” ''' | ||
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''' “When people have impunity, they act like it.” ''' | ''' “When people have impunity, they act like it.” ''' | ||
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''' “Per Ardua, Ad Astra.” ''' -- Through rough ways, to the stars. State motto of Kansas, varient of RAF motto. | ''' “Per Ardua, Ad Astra.” ''' -- Through rough ways, to the stars. State motto of Kansas, varient of RAF motto. | ||
Revision as of 12:52, 14 July 2005
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" -- Juvenal's Satire VI, Against Women. 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
"the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." -- Charles Bandelaire.
"Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?" -- Virgil. The Aeneid: Book I, Line II.
“With great power, there must also come great responsibility.” -- Ben Parker, AMAZING FANTASY #15, August, 1962 (aka. Stan "the Man" Lee)
“Power corrupts… Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
“What we do not understand we fear, what we fear we destroy.”
“When people have impunity, they act like it.”
“Per Ardua, Ad Astra.” -- Through rough ways, to the stars. State motto of Kansas, varient of RAF motto.
