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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." | |
| − | + | '' "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.” '' '''-- Anon'''. | |
| − | + | '' “What we do not understand we fear, what we fear we destroy.” '' '''-- Anon'''. | |
| − | + | '' “When people have impunity, they act like it.” '' '''-- Anon'''. | |
| − | + | '' “Per Ardua, Ad Astra.” '' "Through rough ways, to the stars." '''-- State motto of Kansas''', varient of RAF motto. | |
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| + | ''"All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing"'' '''-- Edmund Burke'''. | ||
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| + | ''''Full of Grace'''': | ||
| + | ''The winter here’s cold, and bitter | ||
| + | It’s chilled us to the bone | ||
| + | We haven’t seen the sun for weeks | ||
| + | To long too far from home | ||
| + | I feel just like I’m sinking | ||
| + | And I claw for solid ground | ||
| + | I’m pulled down by the undertow | ||
| + | I never thought I could feel so low | ||
| + | Oh darkness I feel like letting go | ||
| + | If all of the strength and all of the courage | ||
| + | Come and lift me from this place | ||
| + | I know I could love you much better than this | ||
| + | Full of grace | ||
| + | Full of grace | ||
| + | My love | ||
| + | So it’s better this way, I said | ||
| + | Having seen this place before | ||
| + | Where everything we said and did | ||
| + | Hurts us all the more | ||
| + | Its just that we stayed, too long | ||
| + | In the same old sickly skin | ||
| + | I’m pulled down by the undertow | ||
| + | I never thought I could feel so low | ||
| + | Oh darkness I feel like letting go | ||
| + | If all of the strength | ||
| + | And all of the courage | ||
| + | Come and lift me from this place | ||
| + | I know I could love you much better than this | ||
| + | Full of grace | ||
| + | Full of grace | ||
| + | My love '' '''-- Sarah McLachlan'''. | ||
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[[The AMERICAN GODS]] | [[The AMERICAN GODS]] | ||
Revision as of 09:53, 28 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.” -- Anon.
“What we do not understand we fear, what we fear we destroy.” -- Anon.
“When people have impunity, they act like it.” -- Anon.
“Per Ardua, Ad Astra.” "Through rough ways, to the stars." -- State motto of Kansas, varient of RAF motto.
"All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke.
'Full of Grace': The winter here’s cold, and bitter It’s chilled us to the bone We haven’t seen the sun for weeks To long too far from home I feel just like I’m sinking And I claw for solid ground I’m pulled down by the undertow I never thought I could feel so low Oh darkness I feel like letting go If all of the strength and all of the courage Come and lift me from this place I know I could love you much better than this Full of grace Full of grace My love So it’s better this way, I said Having seen this place before Where everything we said and did Hurts us all the more Its just that we stayed, too long In the same old sickly skin I’m pulled down by the undertow I never thought I could feel so low Oh darkness I feel like letting go If all of the strength And all of the courage Come and lift me from this place I know I could love you much better than this Full of grace Full of grace My love -- Sarah McLachlan.
