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1 " The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. "
― James Rollins , The Last Odyssey (Sigma Force #15)
2 " young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be. "
3 " The old adage “necessity is the mother of all invention” remains as true today as it did back in 3500 B.C. "
4 " They believed the core of Christ’s teachings was to never stop looking for God in the world—and oneself. "
5 " Cerebos, the three-headed guardian of Hell. "
6 " βουλοίμην κ’ ἐπάρουρος ἐὼν θητευέμεν ἄλλῳ, ἀνδρὶ παρ’ ἀκλήρῳ, ᾧ μὴ βίοτος πολὺς εἴη, ἢ πᾶσιν νεκύεσσι καταφθιμένοισιν ἀνάσσειν. “I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man’s house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead.” —WORDS FROM THE GHOST OF ACHILLES IN HOMER’S ODYSSEY "
7 " No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. —IPHIGENIA, A TRAGEDY BY QUINTUS ENNIUS (239–169 B.C.) "
8 " The Great Stagnation, "
9 " Agadir, "
10 " One must be humble enough to recognize one’s limitations, to know when further knowledge is needed. "
11 " seventeenth century, Pope Leo XIII "
12 " Underland: A Deep Time Journey, "
13 " The Holy Scrinium was the private library of the popes, said to contain amazing volumes, both religious and otherwise, dating back to the founding of Christendom. "
14 " Only Kowalski voiced a dissent. “C’mon, guys. Does that really sound like a place we want to go? "
15 " Maybe such brave souls were the world’s true messiahs. Maybe we didn’t need to wait idly by for heavenly salvation. Maybe we were always our best hope. "
16 " Trust it little. Fear it much. Man at sea is but a worm on a bit of wood, now engulfed, now scared to death. —AMRU BIN AL-’AS, THE ARAB CONQUEROR OF EGYPT, 640 A.D. "
17 " Walter Isaacson’s Leonardo da Vinci, which both humanizes the man and offers insight into his genius (do read "
18 " The original Greek word was pithos, a sealed jar for storage. But in the sixteenth century, that word got bastardized into pyxis, which means ‘box,’ and it never got corrected. "
19 " Don’t be stupid.” “I think that’s what I’m best known for. "
