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* '' Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ''    <br> '''-- 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 ''    <br> '''-- 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. ''    <br> '''-- 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. ''    <br> '''-- Genesis 6:4'''
* '' the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.  '' '''-- Charles Bandelaire'''.
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* '' the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.  ''   <br> '''-- Charles Bandelaire'''.
* '' Tantaene animis caelestibus irae? '' '''-- Virgil'''. The Aeneid: Book I, Line II.
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* '' Tantaene animis caelestibus irae? ''   <br> '''-- 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)
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* '' With great power, there must also come great responsibility. ''   <br> -- '''Ben Parker''', AMAZING FANTASY #15, August, 1962  (aka. Stan "the Man" Lee)
* '' Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. '' '''-- Lord Acton'''.
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* '' Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ''   <br> '''-- Lord Acton'''.
* '' What we do not understand we fear, what we fear we destroy. '' '''-- Anon'''.
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* '' What we do not understand we fear, what we fear we destroy. ''   <br> '''-- Anon'''.
* '' When people have impunity, they act like it.  '' '''-- Anon'''.
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* '' When people have impunity, they act like it.  ''   <br> '''-- Anon'''.
* '' Per Ardua, Ad Astra. ''  (Translation: Through rough ways, to the stars.) '''-- State motto of Kansas''', varient of RAF motto.
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* '' Per Ardua, Ad Astra. ''  (Translation: Through rough ways, to the stars.)   <br> '''-- State motto of Kansas''', varient of RAF motto.
* ''All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing'' '''-- Edmund Burke'''.
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* ''All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing''   <br> '''-- Edmund Burke'''.
* ''The winter here is cold and bitter, chilled to the bone. Haven’t seen the sun for weeks. To long - to far from home. Feel like I’m sinking and claw for solid ground. Pulled down by the undertow. So it’s better this way, having seen this place before. Where everything we say and do, hurts us all the more. Its just that we stayed away, too long. Pulled down by the undertow. Never thought I could feel so low. Oh darkness I feel like letting go. With all of my strength and all of my courage, come and lift me from this place... Full of grace. Full of grace.''   '''-- Sarah McLachlan'''.  (paraphrased from ''Full of Grace'')
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* ''The winter here is cold and bitter, chilled to the bone. Haven’t seen the sun for weeks. To long - to far from home. Feel like I’m sinking and claw for solid ground. Pulled down by the undertow. So it’s better this way, having seen this place before. Where everything we say and do, hurts us all the more. Its just that we stayed away, too long. Pulled down by the undertow. Never thought I could feel so low. Oh darkness I feel like letting go. With all of my strength and all of my courage, come and lift me from this place... Full of grace. Full of grace.''     <br> '''-- Sarah McLachlan'''.  (paraphrased from ''Full of Grace'')
* ''Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.'' '''-- Pliny the Elder'''.
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* ''Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.''   <br> '''-- Pliny the Elder'''.
* ''Well, my children <br>  When you meet your friends again <br> The Earth will tremble''   '''--Cheyenna Ghost Dance Chant'''
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* ''Well, my children <br>  When you meet your friends again <br> The Earth will tremble''     <br> '''--Cheyenna Ghost Dance Chant'''
* ''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'''
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* ''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.''   <br> -- '''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'''
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*  ''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,   <br> '''GODZILLA: King of the Monsters'''
* ''Fire is the test of gold, adversity the test of heroes.'' '''-- Seneca''', On Providence
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* ''Fire is the test of gold, adversity the test of heroes.''   <br> '''-- Seneca''', On Providence
* ''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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* ''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... ''   <br> '''-- Baldassare Castiglione''', the Courtier
 
    
 
    
 
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Revision as of 17:25, 11 August 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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
    -- Lord Acton.
  • 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. (Translation: 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.
  • The winter here is cold and bitter, chilled to the bone. Haven’t seen the sun for weeks. To long - to far from home. Feel like I’m sinking and claw for solid ground. Pulled down by the undertow. So it’s better this way, having seen this place before. Where everything we say and do, hurts us all the more. Its just that we stayed away, too long. Pulled down by the undertow. Never thought I could feel so low. Oh darkness I feel like letting go. With all of my strength and all of my courage, come and lift me from this place... Full of grace. Full of grace.
    -- Sarah McLachlan. (paraphrased from Full of Grace)
  • Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
    -- Pliny the Elder.
  • Well, my children
    When you meet your friends again
    The Earth will tremble

    --Cheyenna Ghost Dance Chant
  • 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
  • Fire is the test of gold, adversity the test of heroes.
    -- Seneca, On Providence
  • 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

The AMERICAN GODS