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81 " Over the last fifty years,” the tall man declared, “our sins against Mother Nature have grown exponentially.” He paused. “I fear for the soul of humankind. "
― Dan Brown , Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
82 " Seven Deadly Sins. Saligia is an acronym for: superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, and acedia. "
83 " To do nothing is to welcome Dante’s hell - cramped and starving, weltering in Sin. And so boldly I have taken action. Some will recoil in horror, but all salvation comes at a price. One day the world will grasp the beauty of my sacrifice. "
84 " One great work of art inspired by another. "
85 " Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes in around her. "
86 " the worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality. "
87 " It sounds as if you are trapped in a cycle of thinking about yourself and how you don't belong in the world. "
88 " Dante Alighieri. The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. "
89 " It seemed no amount of praying could diminish the plague’s wrath. By the time city officials realized it was the rats that were causing the disease, it was too late, but Venice still enforced a decree by which all incoming vessels had to anchor offshore for a full forty days before they would be permitted to unload. To this day, the number forty—quaranta in Italian—served as a grim reminder of the origins of the word quarantine. "
90 " السلام الداخلي مهم جدا للتمثيل المقطع. "
91 " tonight … for it’s the beginning of forever. "
92 " And maybe that’s why the only thing that keeps me going is my belief that we are capable of being better than we are … capable of taking action to avoid a catastrophic future. "
93 " The mathematics of Malthus? A quick Internet search led him to information about a prominent nineteenth-century English mathematician and demographist named Thomas Robert Malthus, who had famously predicted an eventual global collapse due to overpopulation. "
94 " Believe me, I know what it’s like to feel all alone … the worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality. "
95 " Science makes an error,” he said, the gentle laughter fading from his voice, “in cutting itself off from nature. In thinking of itself as separate. I feel a chill inside my heart when I imagine where such an error might lead. "
96 " Sometimes you need to go up...to go down. "
97 " In ancient mythology,” Langdon offered, “a hero in denial is the ultimate manifestation of hubris and pride. No man is more prideful than he who believes himself immune to the dangers of the world. "
98 " Fighting communicable disease was often like fighting a forest fire: sometimes you had to drop back and surrender a battle in hopes of winning the war. "
99 " The Divine Comedy has nothing comedic about it. It’s called a comedy for another reason entirely. In the fourteenth century, Italian literature was, by requirement, divided into two categories: tragedy, representing high literature, was written in formal Italian; comedy, representing low literature, was written in the vernacular and geared toward the general population. "
100 " Until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him. Martin Luther "