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  • But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

    "Do All Of Us Possess Genius?". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.
  • Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society.

    Thinking   Rome   Culture  
    Source: collider.com
  • No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome.

    War   Years   Rome  
    Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.
  • Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

    Men   Rome   Would Be  
  • We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism.

    Rome   Victory   Triumph  
  • I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

    Latin   Rome   Cities  
    "The Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius, August 28, 2013.
  • It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's a pretty long track record. More likely we may reach a point where each one of us is a typographer with our own custom proprietary typeface.

    Rome   Long   Track  
    Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
  • And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

    God   Father   Men  
    Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Horatius”
  • Ancient Rome was a violent place.

    Rome   Ancient   Violent  
  • OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."

    Rome   Honor   Enemy  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.171, e-artnow
  • Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

    Strong   Queens   Fall  
    "The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (Volume II)". Book by Winston Churchill, 1899.
  • Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

    Government   Rome   House  
    "Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics as If Freedom Mattered". Book by John Galt, p. 235, 1986.
  • [In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler.

    Kings   Government   Rome  
    "'Sith' Invites Bush Comparisons" by Ellen Crean, www.cbsnews.com. May 16, 2005.
  • Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

    War   Latin   Rome  
    Pro Milone ch. 11
  • The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

    War   Lying   Latin  
    "Dulce et Decorum Est" l. 21 (written 1918) See Horace 20
  • It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a great number of persons of either sex who had devoted themselves to the profession of perpetual chastity.

    Sex   Rome   Numbers  
    Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.187
  • As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

    Bible   Philosophy   Zion  
    Edward Thomson (1856). “Essays, moral and religious”, p.35
  • Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

    Rome   Expansion   World  
  • If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

    Military   Bad Ass   Law  
  • It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

    Horace (1908). “Horace: Quintus Horatius Flaccus ... the Roman Poet Presented to Modern Readers”
  • War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.

    Kings   War   Rome  
    Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”
  • And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.

    Barry Morris Goldwater (1976). “The coming breakpoint”, Not Avail
  • I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy: David Gemmell, Raymond E. Feist. It's a nice escape from the world. As much as I do love real-life stories, they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt.

    Hurt   Real   Nice  
    Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.
  • Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer this crazy gladiatorial throwback to ancient Rome. It's even in our language: If you want to get serious and violent, what do you do? You "take the gloves off." Bare-fisted is supposedly a much more dangerous way to hit someone. But we've got it completely backward. The glove is a weapon. It massively accentuates the ability of the fist to do harm.

    Sports   Crazy   Rome  
    "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.
  • I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

    Education   Heart   Rome  
    "My Early Life: A Roving Commission" by Winston Churchill, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.
  • I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes the word patrician. So if you come from a senatorial family, you are literally patrician in that sense, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't be Billy Carter, you know, of recent memory.

    Memories   Father   Mean  
    "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.
  • If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

  • Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

    Football   Rome   People  
  • A bad peace is even worse than war.

    Peace   War   Ubuntu  
  • I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

    Writing   Rome   Machines  
    "Top writing tips: Caroline Lawrence" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.
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