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“But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.”
― Jack McDevitt, Time Travelers Never Die

tags: paradox, time, travel

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#2

“Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. But it takes perspective to know who's carrying the load. Nobody here has a clue who Johannes Kepler is. All they know about Galileo is that he's a teacher who got in trouble with the Inquisition. I doubt anyone's heard of Francis Bacon. Even in Britain, nobody really knows him. He's just a guy with a funny name.”
― Jack McDevitt, Time Travelers Never Die

tags: bacon, galileo, inquisition, kepler, time, travel

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#3

“And never forget," Michael said, "time travelers never die. No matter what you saw up ahead, about me, I'll always be here.”
― Jack McDevitt, Time Travelers Never Die

tags: death, immortality, time-travel

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#4

“And, in a way, we're all time travelers. Somehow, the entire temporal stream exists, but we're only conscious of a single moment.”
― Jack McDevitt, Time Travelers Never Die

tags: time, time-travel

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#5

“Across the bottom of the last page of many a book is written 'Explicit, Deo Gratias ('Finished, thank god')...Books are kept not on open shelves, but in locked chests. ”
― Joseph Gies, Life in a Medieval City

tags: nonfiction

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#6

“Between two each places stands a two-handed bowl, or ecuelle, which is filled with soup or stew. Two neighbors share the ecuelle, as well as a winecup and spoon.”
― Joseph Gies, Life in a Medieval City

tags: medieval-meals, middle-ages

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#7

“Even for a well-to-do city family, making life comfortable is a problem. But arriving at a point where comfort becomes a problem for a fair number of people is a sign of advancing civilization.”
― Joseph Gies, Life in a Medieval City

tags: medieval-civilization, middle-ages

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#8

“Sometimes the pagan spirit of Roman poetry arouses qualms. Guibert of Nogent confesses in his autobiography that early in his monastic life he took up verse making and even fell into "certain obscene words and composed brief writings, worthless and immodest, in fact bereft of all decency," before abandoning this shocking practice in favor of commentaries on the Scriptures.”
― Joseph Gies, Life in a Medieval City

tags: medieval-literature, medieval-poetry, middle-ages, obscene-words

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#9

“A Jewish ethical treatise warns that a man must not express his anger by pounding on a book or by hitting people with it. The angry teacher must not hit the bad student with a book, nor should the student use a book to ward off blows.”
― Joseph Gies, Life in a Medieval City

tags: books, middle-ages

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#10

“people were rubbing their eyes and opening windows to stare out and ask questions, and getting dressed quickly as the first breath of the coming storm of fear blew through the streets. It was the beginning of the great panic.”
― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

tags: fear, fiction, mars-attacks, panic

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#11

“...not with the Depression walking around outside the prison walls like a dangerous criminal, one that couldn't be caged as our charges were.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

tags: depression, prison

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#12

“Smoke puffed from the open V of his shirt. And still the humming of the electricity went on and on, filling my head, vibrating in there. I think it's the sound mad people must hear, that or something like it.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

tags: death, electric-chair, execution, insanity, prison

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#13

“A grandfather clause, I thought. And what place was more fitted for one than an old-age home?”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

tags: age, ageing

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#14

“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#15

“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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#16

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#17

“Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written record and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: anti-utopia, big-brother, full-control, past, the-party, totalitarianism

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#18

“Hell, no. A church is the one thing we don't have. Physics is the religion around here. Use the Lord's name in vain all you like,' he laughed, 'just don't slander any quarks or mesons.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

tags: blasphemy, catholic, cern, church, joke, religion, science

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#19

“A Pope usually worked fourteen-hour days, seven days a week, and died of exhaustion in an average of 6.3 years. The inside joke was that accepting the papacy was a cardinal's 'fastest route to heaven.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

tags: black-humor, cardinal, catholic, pope

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#20

“Santi was a behemoth in the art world, and being known solely by one's first name was a level of fame achieved only by an elite few... people like Napoleon, Galileo, and Jesus... and, of course, the demigods Langdon now heard blaring from Harvard dormitories - Sting, Madonna, Jewel, and the artist formerly known as Prince, who had changed his name to the symbol ?, causing Langdon to dub him 'The Tau Cross With Intersecting Hermaphroditic Ankh.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

tags: fame, galileo, jesus, jewel, madonna, music, napoleon, prince, rafael-santi, sting

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#21

“With pain in his voice, the camerlengo spoke of his late Pope... the victim of an Illuminati poisoning. And finally, his words almost a whisper, he spoke of a deadly new technology, antimatter, which in less than two hours threatened to destroy all of Vatican City.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

tags: antimatter, camerlengo, catholic, illuminati, murder, poison, pope, religion, science, vatican

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#22

“The early Christians built a small shrine over his tomb. As Christianity spread, the shrine got bigger, layer upon layer, culminating in this collosal basilica. The entire Catholic faith had been built, quite literally, upon St Peter. The rock.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

tags: basilic, christianity, religion, rock, saint-peter

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#23

“Unfortunately, Da Vinci was a prankster who often amused himself by quietly gnawing at the hand that fed him. He incorporated in may of his Christian paintings hidden symbolism that was anything but Christian - tributes to his own beliefs and a subtle thumbing of his nose at the Church.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: christian, christianity, church, da-vinci, history, painting, pranks, symbolism

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#24

“Originally, Tarot had been devised as a secret means to pass along ideologies banned by the Church. Now, Tarot's mystical qualities were passed on by modern fortune-tellers.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: cards, christianity, church, fortune-telling, mysticism, tarot

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#25

“The male ego had spent two millennia running unchecked by its female counterpart. The Priory of Sion believed that it was this obliteration of the sacred feminine in modern life that had caused what the Hopi Native Americans called koyanisquatsi - "life out of balance" - an unstable situation marked by testosterone-fueled wars, a plethora of misogynistic societies, and a growing disrespect for Mother Earth.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: balance-in-life, female, male, priory-of-sion

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#26

“The world had gone mad, and in may parts of Europe, advertising your love of Jesus Christ was like painting a bull's-eye on the roof of your car.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: jesus-christ, love, religion

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#27

“Fugitives were predictable the first hour after escape. They always needed the same thing. Travel. Lodging. Cash. The Holy Trinity.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: escape, fugitive, humor, police

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#28

“We're on a Grail quest, Sophie. Who better to help us than a knight?”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: holy-grail, knight, quest

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#29

“Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

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#30

“History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

tags: history

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