Magna Quotes

[She] knew there were women who worked successfully out of the home. They ran businesses, created empires and managed to raise happy, healthy, well-adjusted children who went on to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard or became world-renowned concert pianists. Possibly both. These women accomplished all this while cooking gourmet meals, furnishing their homes with Italian antiques, giving clever, intelligent interviews with Money magazine and People, and maintaining a brilliant marriage with an active enviable sex life and never tipping the scale at an ounce over their ideal weight... She knew those women were out there. If she'd had a gun, she'd have hunted every last one of them down and shot them like rabid dogs for the good of womankind.

To leave a whisper of myself in the world, my ghost, a magna opera of words.

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

I have come to realize that truly rich people are rich not because they are frugal or they chose to be frugal, but because they are so grateful, contented and full of self-worth that they don't have to prove anything to anyone with material possessions. This way, they appear frugal.

The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.

They wanted to teach us the meaning of x in relation to pi, as opposed to helping us better understand ourselves and each other. They wanted us to know when the Magna Carta was signed-never mind what it was-as opposed to discussing birth control.

Suspice, etiam si decidunt, magna conantes " "Admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail" "Admira, incluso si caen, a quienes emprenden grandes iniciativas

2. We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.

Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt. (Few men desire freedom, the greater part desire just masters.)

Take time to improve your knowledge and skills so that you can put a premium on yourself. You don't have to be content in being simply a good doer if you can also become a great teacher.

Agatha Christie n. A silent, putrid fart committed by someone in this very room, and only one person knows whodunnit.

If you ignorantly believe there’s not enough life support available on planet Earth for all humanity, then survival only of the fittest seems self-flatteringly to warrant magna-selfishness. However, it is due only to humans’ born state of ignorance and the 99.99-percent invisibility of technological capabilities that they do not recognize the vast abundance of resources available to support all humanity at an omni-high standard of living.

Queaque ipsa miserrima vidi,et quorum pars magna fui. (And those terrible things I saw, and in which I played a great part.)

Man, didn't anybody ever tell you that art is propaganda? It doesn't matter whether you think it should be or it shouldn't be, it just is, and motherfucker, like or not, you're sitting on a funky Magna Carta.

For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm

The magna mater!” a ghost wailed in despair. “The big mother!

Obama’s global drone assassination campaign, a remarkable innovation in global terrorism, exhibits the same patterns. By most accounts, it is generating terrorists more rapidly than it is murdering those suspected of someday intending to harm us—an impressive contribution by a constitutional lawyer on the eight hundredth anniversary of Magna Carta, which established the basis for the principle of presumption of innocence that is the foundation of civilized law.

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain”. *Gulistan ("The Rose Garden") is a landmark literary work in Persian literature. Written in 1259 A.D, it is one of two magna opera of the Persian poet Saadi, considered one of the best medieval Persian poets. The Gulistan is a collection of poems and stories, just as a rose-garden is a collection of roses. It is widely quoted as a source of wisdom. **The entrance to the United Nations' Hall of Nations’ carries the above inscription culled from Gulistan.” Muslih Al-Din Mushrif Ibn Abd Allah Al Saadi 1184 1283

The priceless copy of Magna Carta on display in the British pavilion was supposed to go home when the fair closed on October 1. After high-level discussion, however, officials thought it would be safer to let it stay in the United States.*

I’ll defend the girl with my last breath,” he promised, and clasped his hand dramatically to the chest of his ragged frock coat. “Oh, wait. That doesn’t mean much, does it, since I gasped that last breath before the Magna Carta was dry on the page? I mean, of course I’ll look after her, with whatever is left of my life.

To what end the ‘world’ exists, to what end ‘man­kind’ exists, ought not to concern us at all for the moment except as objects of humour: for the presumptuousness of the little human worm is the funniest thing at present on the world’s stage; on the other hand, do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a ‘to this end’, an exalted and noble ‘to this end’ . Perish in pursuit of this and only this - I know of no better aim of life than that of perishing, animae magnae prodigus, in pursuit of the great and the impossible. If, on the other hand, the doctrines of sovereign becoming, of the fluidity of all concepts, types and species, of the lack of any cardinal distinction between man and animal - doctrines which I consider true but deadly - are thrust upon the people for another generation with the rage for instruction that has by now become normal, no one should be surprised if the people perishes of petty egoism, ossification and greed, falls apart and ceases to be a people; in its place sys­tems of individualist egoism, brotherhoods for the rapacious exploitation of the non-brothers, and similar creations of utilitarian vulgarity may perhaps appear in the arena of the future. To prepare the way for these creations all one has to do is to go on writing history from the standpoint of the masses and seeking to derive the laws which govern it from the needs of these masses, that is to say from the laws which move the lowest mud- and clay-strata of society. The masses seem to me to deserve notice in three respects only: first as faded copies of great men produced on poor paper with worn-out plates, then as a force of resistance to great men, finally as instruments in the hands of great men; for the rest, let the Devil and statistics take them!

The contemporary Matthew Paris wrote that, ‘foul as it is, hell itself is defiled by the foulness of King John’. A bard sang that ‘no man may ever trust him, for his heart is soft and cowardly’. Yet this evil was catalyst for a greater good, Magna Carta.

corgi 1. n. A high class hound, such as those that accompany the Queen. 2. n. A high class hound, such as the one that accompanies Prince Charles.

He vivido mi vida, el noble curso / que me abrió la Fortuna he recorrido, / y ahora mi jornada bajo tierra emprendo, magna sombra. 950-955

It’s age. It makes misers of us,” he said dolefully. “Counting out our lives in small change from a thinning purse.

So long as the vast population doesn’t wander about quoting the Magna Charta and the Constitution, it’s all right.

Mrs. Palmer, in her way, was equally angry. She was determined to drop his acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been acquainted with him at all. She wished with all her heart Combe Magna was not so near Cleveland; but it did not signify, for it was a great deal too far off to visit; she hated him so much that she was resolved never to mention his name again, and she should tell everybody she saw, how good-for-nothing he was.

Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain? That gallant Hungarian peasant girl who forced King John to sign the pledge at Runnymede and closed the boozers at half past ten?

When dreams are not clear, the results are often as blurred. You won't be able to arrive at your desired destination if you are not certain of where you're going. You have to be able to see clearly and perfectly.

Every generation has the illusion that things were easier and better in a simpler past. Dead wrong. Things are better today than at any time in human history. Our primal ignorance is what keeps us whacking each other over the head with sticks, and not what allows us to paint a Mona Lisa or design a space shuttle. The 'primal ignorance that keeps us happy' gives rise to obesity and global warming, not antibiotics or the Magna Carta. If human kind flourishes rather than flounders over the next thousand years, it will be because we fully embraced learning and reason, and not because we surrendered to some fantasy about returning to a world that never really was.

You, Christopher, with your centuries of Anglo-Saxon freedom behind you, with your Magna Carta engraved upon your heart, cannot understand that we poor barbarians need the stiffness of a uniform to keep us standing upright.

Self-control is a key factor in achieving success. We can't control everything in life, but we can definitely control ourselves.

I realized that success is not a one-time act or a moment of luck and that "Overnight Success" is never true. Success is created through and by creating a habit caused by proper self-discipline.

When they arrived at Parva Magna, everyone agreed that it was quite a good thing that the newly married couple had managed to find shelter in the storm, although there was some confusion as to why it had taken them a full three days to make their way fifteen miles.

Overlooked, too, is that the Visigothic Code of Law was, for its time, an impressive document that combined Visigoth practices with Roman law and Christian principles, and that evidences a guiding desire to limit the power of government many centuries before Magna Carta.

Relief, fear, and humiliation. Her parents paid for a pricey prep school education in D.C. She graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown with a degree in political science. She breezed through law school and finished with honors. A dozen megafirms offered her jobs after a federal court clerkship. The first twenty-nine years of her life had seen overwhelming success and little failure. To be discharged in such a manner was crushing. To be escorted out of the building was degrading. This was not just a minor bump in a long, rewarding career.

In life, it is important that we act fast. If you don't act fast and act now, someone else will do exactly what you have thought of doing. Someone else would have fired while you were spending time aiming.

Haiku (Se dedică domnului Tobias Berggen) Întunecînd întunericul iată lumina.

The wealthiest people in the world are those who can give the most value to the most number of people.

Sed fortuna, quae plurimum potest cum in reliquis rebus tum praecipue in bello, parvis momentis magnas rerum commutationes efficit; ut tum accidit.

You’ll be seeing pink elephants, the way you drink.” “I find life thirsty work, old man,” Phineas said equably. “And besides, what have you got against pink elephants?

Le dije que en la historia de Venezuela no había una Carta Magna sino una larga sucesión de contratos de adhesión escritos por los caudillos de turno

Quaeque ipsa miserrima vidi, Et quorum pars magna fui.” —Virgil “You don’t fuck around with the infinite.” —Mean Streets

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Vertitur interea caelum et ruit oceano nox, inuoluens umbra magna terramque polumque.

Our society doesn’t have the proper respect for magna cum laude

Et pater Anchises passis de litore palmis numina magna vocat, meritosque indicit honores: 'Di, prohibete minas; di, talem avertite casum, et placidi servate pios!

Es cien veces mejor sufrir por una convicción que matar por ella.

Pero justo eso constituye el signo distintivo de una voluntad demoníaca, el transformar en realidad lo imposible.

CAE LA CRUZ A veces la historia juega con los números, pues justo mil años después de que Roma fuera tan memorablemente saqueada por los vándalos, comienza el saqueo de Bizancio.

Solo si toda la cristiandad unida protege a su último bastión en el este, podrá seguir siendo un templo de fe Santa Sofía, la última y a la vez la más bella catedral del cristianismo romano oriental.

headed instead across the field to the Magna Carta memorial, a little open-air rotunda erected in 1957 by the American Bar Association and memorable today as the only decent thing ever done by lawyers.

She was determined to drop his acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been acquainted with him at all. She wished with all her heart Combe Magna was not so near Cleveland; but it did not signify, for it was a great deal too far off to visit; she hated him so much that she was resolved never to mention his name again, and she should tell everybody she saw, how good-for-nothing he was.

Es el asombro eterno que en cada rincón de la Tierra, siente todo hijo de la naturaleza ante los hijos de la cultura, para quienes un puñado de metal amarillo tiene más valía que todos los logros técnicos y espirituales.

Magna Carta or no, the rights of Americans were not not theirs only because of any ancient “contract.” As James Wilson put it, using ancient legal terms, “The fee simple of freedom and government is declared to be in the people.

La niñez, pálida, perdida, anodina. Padre y madre, el hermano, la esposa. Tres migajas de amistad, dos copas de placer, un sueño de gloria, un zurrón de agravios. Fogosas, embisten por sus venas las imágenes de la juventud perdida.

They wanted to teach us the meaning of x in relation to pi, as opposed to helping us better understand ourselves and each other. They wanted us to know when the Magna Carta was signed—never mind what it was—as opposed to discussing birth control. We

established under Magna Carta was the right to a trial by jury. For centuries, guilt or innocence had been determined, across Europe, either by a trial by ordeal—a trial by water, for instance, or a trial by fire—or by trial by combat. Trials by ordeal and

Jamás llegará plenamente a saber la humanidad la desgracia que en aquel instante del destino se introdujo por la olvidada Kerkaporta, jamás llegará a saber la humanidad todo lo que se le privó al mundo del espíritu en los saqueos de Roma, de Alejandría y de Bizancio.

Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Moriori’s priestly caste dictated that whosoever spilt a man’s blood killed his own mana - his honor, his worth, his standing & his soul. No Moriori would shelter, feed, converse with, or even see the persona non grata. If the ostracized murderer survived his first winter, the desperation of solitude usually drove him to a blowhole on Cape Young, where he took his life. Consider this, Mr. D’Arnoq urged us. Two thousand savages (Mr. Evans’s best guess) enshrine “Thou Shalt Not Kill” in word & in deed & frame an oral “Magna Carta” to create a harmony unknown elsewhere for the sixty centuries since Adam first tasted the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. War was as alien a concept to the Moriori as the telescope is to the Pygmy. Peace, not a hiatus betwixt wars but millennia of imperishable peace, rules these far-flung islands. Who can deny Old Rekohu lay closer to More’s Utopia than our States of Progress governed by war-hungry princelings in Versailles & Vienna, Washington & Westminster? “Here,” declaimed Mr. D’Arnoq, “and where only, were those elusive phantasms, those noble savages, framed in flesh & blood!” (Henry, as we later made our back to the Musket confessed, “I could never describe a race of savages too backwards to throw a spear as ‘noble.

The fundamental axiom of economics is the human mercenary instinct. Without that assumption, the entire field would collapse. There isn’t any fundamental axiom for sociology yet, but it might be even darker than economics. The truth always picks up dust. A small number of people could fly off into space, but if we knew it would come to that, why would we have bothered in the first place?” “Bothered with what?” “Why would we have had the Renaissance? Why the Magna Carta? Why the French Revolution? If humanity had stayed divided into classes, kept in place by the law’s iron rule, then when the time came, the ones who needed to leave would leave, and the ones who had to stay behind would stay. If this took place in the Ming or Qing Dynasties, then I’d leave, of course, and you’d stay behind. But that’s not possible now.

La lectura de Momentos estelares de la humanidad es para el hombre de hoy un bálsamo y un impulso, que tienen como fin liberarnos de lo anodino, del conformismo de una civilización que ya solo es capaz de encontrar lo extraordinario en el deporte o en la virtualidad de “la red”.

Tata se dezdurerase și eu mă mai gândeam la el, mai presus de cuvinte, și dedesubt sub aripa lui Gabriel. Am luat un pahar de vin l-am dus la gură și l-am băut. Am luat alt pahar de vin și l-am vărsat pe jos. Am mai băut un pahar, am mai vărsat un pahar, secunda se înflorise în mine neclar

Hassan drafts a Magna Carta and asks that a taxman pass a Tax Act - a cash grab that can tax all farmland and grant a dastard at cards what hard cash Hassan lacks. Hassan asks that an apt draftsman map what ranchland a ranchhand can farm: all grasslands and pampas, all marshlands and swamps, flatlands and savannahs (standard badlands that spawn chaparral and crabgrass). Hassan asks that all farmhands at farms plant flax and award Hassan, as a tax, half what straw a landsman can stash at a barn. A ranchman at a ranch warns campagnards that a shah has spat at hard-and-fast laws that ban cadastral graft.

como nos ha recordado Ortega en su España invertebrada, o en La rebelión de las masas, el mayor mal de nuestro país consiste en el recelo de la masa recela ante el hombre de grandes virtudes, ante el hombre de espíritu, acogiendo, sin embargo, en su seno solo a profetas mediocres, tanto de un lado como de otro.

In Magna Carta it is more than once insisted on as the principal bulwark of our liberties; but especially by chap. 29. that no freeman shall be hurt in either his person or property, “nisi per legale judicium parium suorum vel per legem terrae “ ["unless by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land"].

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain”. *Gulistan ("The Rose Garden") is a landmark literary work in Persian literature. Written in 1259 A.D, it is one of two magna opera of the Persian poet Saadi, considered one of the best medieval Persian poets. The Gulistan is a collection of poems and stories, just as a rose-garden is a collection of roses. It is widely quoted as a source of wisdom. **The entrance to the United Nations' Hall of Nations’ carries the above inscription culled from Gulistan.

A través de la falta de coraje y decisión del general Grouchy en la batalla de Waterloo, nos advierte de que la historia la determinan hombres atrevidos.

Con desprecio, rechaza aquel instante al pusilánime. Con brazos ardientes, como otro Dios sobre la tierra, encumbra al cielo de los héroes tan solo a los audaces.

Appreciation for history is scarce today, public debate is only rarely lit by foundational principles, and there is a further reason why the needed discussion fails to get off the ground—especially in the speech code, cancel culture of many American and European universities. Debate is often ended by prejudice and a fashionable consensus that chokes it off from the start.

Zweig hace resucitar una vez más la figura trágica del capitán Scott, que nos mostró que en el hundimiento hay gloria y que puede otorgarse vida a otros mientras uno pierde la suya propia.

Strangers, modest enough elsewhere, started up at dinners in Coketown, and boasted, in quite a rampant way, of Bounderby.  They made him out to be the Royal arms, the Union-Jack, Magna Charta, John Bull, Habeas Corpus, the Bill of Rights, An Englishman’s house is his castle, Church and State, and God save the Queen, all put together.  And as often (and it was very often) as an orator

From Kircher's Ars Magna Sciendi. In the above diagram Kircher arranges eighteen objects in two vertical columns and then determines the number of arrangements in which they can be combined. By the same method Kircher further estimates that fifty objects may be arranged in 1,273,726,838,815,420,339,851,343,083,767,005,515,293,749,454,795,408,000,000,000,000 combinations. From this it will be evident that infinite diversity is possible, for the countless parts of the universe may be related to each other in an incalculable number of ways; and through the various combinations of these limitless subdivisions of being, infinite individuality and infinite variety must inevitably result. Thus it is further evident that life can never become monotonous or exhaust the possibilities of variety.

Barcelona has always been more a city of capital and labor than of nobility and commoners; its democratic roots are old and run very deep. Its medieval charter of citizens’ rights, the Usatges, grew from a nucleus which antedated the Magna Carta by more than a hundred years. Its government, the Consell de Cent (Council of One Hundred), had been the oldest protodemocratic political body in Spain.

En esta batalla, el fantástico juego de artificios que fue la existencia de Napoleón se dispara fastuosamente hacia los cielos para luego precipitarse de nuevo hacia la tierra y apagarse para siempre.

El hombre actual está preso en esa red desde la que cree navegar, pero la verdadera navegación necesita de días de calma en el mar, en los que nada pase, en los que se vida solo para esperar y contemplar, alimentando el anhelo de lo extraordinario con algo extraño ya hoy, la paciencia. Navegar trae también tempestades que amenazan con hundirnos, pero que no destensan la voluntad de seguir adelante.

Terrible es la venganza de aquel capricho del destino que tan rara vez desciende hasta los mortales, cuando cae injustamente en manos de quien no sabe hacer uso de él. Todas las virtudes burguesas, la prudencia, la obediencia, el empeño y la discreción se funden y se derriten impotentes ante las brasas de aquel gran momento del destino que solo reclama al genio y que forjará de él una imagen inmortal.

Pythagoras was born around 570 B.C. in the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea (off Asia Minor), and he emigrated sometime between 530 and 510 to Croton in the Dorian colony in southern Italy (then known as Magna Graecia). Pythagoras apparently left Samos to escape the stifling tyranny of Polycrates (died ca. 522 B.C.), who established Samian naval supremacy in the Aegean Sea. Perhaps following the advice of his presumed teacher, the mathematician Thales of Miletus, Pythagoras probably lived for some time (as long as twenty-two years, according to some accounts) in Egypt, where he would have learned mathematics, philosophy, and religious themes from the Egyptian priests. After Egypt was overwhelmed by Persian armies, Pythagoras may have been taken to Babylon, together with members of the Egyptian priesthood. There he would have encountered the Mesopotamian mathematical lore. Nevertheless, the Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics would prove insufficient for Pythagoras' inquisitive mind. To both of these peoples, mathematics provided practical tools in the form of "recipes" designed for specific calculations. Pythagoras, on the other hand, was one of the first to grasp numbers as abstract entities that exist in their own right.

Minor segments of earlier history may have been rescued or 'retrieved' -- e.g. Greek 'democracy,' Aristotle, the Magna Carta, etc. -- but these remain subservient, if not instrumental, to the imperatives of the modern historical narrative and to the progress of 'Western civilization.' African and Asia, in most cases, continue to struggle in order to catch up, in the process not only forgoeing the privilege of drawing on their own traditions and historical experiences that shaped who they were and, partly, who they have become but also letting themselves be drawn into devastating wars, poverty, disease and the destruction of their natural environment. Modernity, whose hegemonic discourse is determined by the institutions and intellectuals of the powerful modern West, has not offered a fair shake to two-thirds of the world's population, who have lost their history and, with it, their organic ways of existence.

In former times, military power was isolated, with the consequence that victory or defeat appeared to depend upon the accidental qualities of commanders. In our day, it is common to treat economic power as the source from which all other kinds are derived; this, I shall contend, is just as great an error as that of the purely military historians whom it has caused to seem out of date. Again, there are those who regard propaganda as the fundamental form of power. This is by no means a new opinion; it is embodied in such traditional sayings as magna est veritas et prevalebit and ‘the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church’. It has about the same measure of truth and falsehood as the military view or the economic view. Propaganda, if it can create an almost unanimous opinion, can generate an irresistible power; but those who have military or economic control can, if they choose, use it for the purpose of propaganda.

noblemen—“all the liberties written out below, to have and to keep for them and their heirs, of us and our heirs.”33 This was the great charter, the Magna Carta. Magna Carta had been revoked almost immediately after it was written, and it had become altogether obscure by the time of King James and his battles with the ungovernable Edward Coke. But Coke, as brilliant a political strategist as he was a legal scholar, resurrected it in the 1620s and began calling it England’s

that he would obey the “law of the land.” Magna Carta wasn’t nearly as important as Coke made it out to be, but by arguing for its importance, he made it important, not only for English history, but for American history, too, tying the political fate of everyone in England’s colonies to the strange doings of a very bad king from the Middle Ages. King John, born in 1166, was the youngest son of Henry II. As a young man, he’d studied with his father’s chief minister, Ranulf de Glanville,

Lo decisivo en toda gran acción militar es el factor sorpresa. Y es ahora donde se manifiesta grandiosamente el genio de Mehmet. Nadie barrunta nada de sus intenciones —«si un pelo de mi barba supiera de mis pensamientos, lo arrancaría», dijo de sí una vez el genial Mehmet—, y en un orden absoluto, bajo el imponente tronar de los cañones, se ejecutan sus órdenes. En esta noche del 22 de abril, por la montaña y el valle, a través de viñedos, campos y bosques, setenta barcos son transportados de un mar a otro.

is, not to the people, but to noblemen—“all the liberties written out below, to have and to keep for them and their heirs, of us and our heirs.”33 This was the great charter, the Magna Carta. Magna Carta had been revoked almost immediately after it was written, and it had become altogether obscure by the time of King James and his battles with the ungovernable Edward Coke. But Coke, as brilliant a political strategist as he was a legal scholar, resurrected it in the 1620s and began calling it England’s “ancient

Pero a la larga, la fuerza innata de una obra no se deja ocultar, y se resiste a quedar encerrada tras las puertas del olvido. Una obra de arte puede quedar olvidada por un tiempo, puede ser prohibida u ocultada, pero la grandeza acaba siempre por vencer a lo efímero.

The existence of the "world" and "humanity" need not trouble us for some time, except to provide us with a good joke: for the presumption of the small earthworm is the most uproariously comic thing on the face of the earth. Ask thyself to what end thou art here, as an individual; and if no one can tell thee, try then to justify the meaning of thy existence a posteriori, by putting before thyself a high and noble end. Perish on that rock! I know no better aim for life than to be broken on something great and impossible, anima magnae prodigus.

Cybele, or the Great Mother—Magna Mater. This Cybele was supposed to have conceived a passion for a young man named Atys, and when Atys failed to respond to her advances, she became jealous. When she caught him having it off with someone else, she drove him so mad that he castrated himself. I am afraid that respectable young Londoners had celebrated their devotion to Magna Mater by doing the same—and we know this for sure because the river near London Bridge has also yielded a fearful set of serrated forceps, adorned with the heads of Eastern divinities.

Zweig fue toda su vida un apasionado coleccionista. Le gustaba poseer y contemplar primeras ediciones de obras de Goethe o Schiller, partituras escritas por Mozart o Beethoven. Las contemplaba sabiendo que ahí mismo, delante de él, en aquellos papeles, estaba el sufrimiento y el gozo, el tormento y el éxtasis del acto grande.

It is difficult to picture the rich, hard-nosed advisors of James I being overly concerned about the rights of vagabonds and felons. But this was a period that was especially suspicious of arbitrary acts by the Crown against individuals. There was no law enabling the crown to exile anyone, including the baser convict, into forced labour. According to legal scholars, the Magna Carta itself protected even them. The Privy Councillors therefore dressed up what was to befall the convicts and presented the decree authorising their transportation as an act of royal mercy. The convicts were to be reprieved from death in exchange for accepting transportation. (71-71)

rights established as far back as Magna Carta. Then, in the longest statement in the draft, Jefferson blamed George III for African slavery, charging the king with waging “cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery,” preventing the colonies from outlawing the slave trade and, “that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us.” This passage Congress struck, unwilling to conjure this assemblage of horrors in the nation’s founding document.

También aquí, como por lo general en todos los ámbitos del arte y de la vida, los momentos sublimes e inolvidables son raros. La mayoría de su vida, la historia sirve con tenaz abulia como mera cronista, hilvanando punto por punto un hecho tras otro en la infinita cadena que se extiende a lo largo de miles de años. Y es que para que haya tensión en la historia se necesitan años de preparación, y cada acontecimiento singular precisa de una evolución a la que someterse. Para que nazca un solo genio se necesitan millones de hombres que no lo sean. Y así mismo han de transcurrir millones de horas inútiles antes de que un momento estelar de la humanidad haga su aparición.

Un segundo reflexiona Grouchy y ese segundo determina su propio destino, el de Napoleón y el del mundo. Ese segundo en la casa de labranza de Walhain decide todo el siglo XIX, y ese instante —que encierra la inmortalidad— pende de los labios de un hombre formal, pero mediocre. Ese instante se halla en unas manos que entre sus dedos arrugan nerviosas la orden del emperador. Grouchy podría ahora armarse de valor, mostrarse osado y con fe en sí mismo y ante la evidencia que tiene ante sus ojos, desobedecer la orden del Emperador. De este modo, Francia estaría salvada. Pero el subalterno obedece siempre a lo que está escrito y jamás tiene oídos para la llamada del destino.

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain”. ***Gulistan ("The Rose Garden") is a landmark literary work in Persian literature. Written in 1259 A.D, it is one of two magna opera of the Persian poet Saadi, considered one of the best medieval Persian poets. The Gulistan is a collection of poems and stories, just as a rose-garden is a collection of roses. It is widely quoted as a source of wisdom. The entrance to the United Nations' Hall of Nations’ carries the following inscription culled from Gulistan.

Escucha las voces de los pequeños y los débiles, de las mujeres que se entregaron en vano, de las prostitutas riéndose de sus miserias, el rencor tenebroso de quienes están siempre enfermos. A los solitarios, ante quienes jamás se posó una sonrisa. Escucha a los niños que sollozan y se lamentan. Y los gritos impotentes de las que fueron seducidas en secreto.

Como los corazones de dos pajarillos, suena el tictac de sus dos relojes entre sus manos, por encima de la tumultuosa masa que se oye como una tormenta en el campo de batalla. Ambos, Napoleón y Wellington, echan mano continuamente al cronómetro y cuentan las horas, los minutos, que les han de traer aquella última y decisiva ayuda. Wellington sabe que Blücher está cerca y Napoleón espera a Grouchy. A ambos se les han agotado las tropas de reserva, y aquel que antes entre en acción decidirá la batalla. Ambos generales dirigen sus catalejos hacia aquel linde del bosque por donde, como una suave neblina, parece arribar la vanguardia prusiana. Dudan de si se trata solo de alguna estratagema o es en efecto el mismo ejército prusiano huyendo de Grouchy. Los ingleses no pueden ya ofrecer más que un último intento de resistencia, pero también las fuerzas francesas están al borde del desfallecimiento. Como dos boxeadores jadeantes y exhaustos, se mantienen en pie, pero con los brazos ya paralizados, tomando aliento antes de avanzar hacia el otro por última vez. Inexorable se acerca el asalto decisivo.

The deepest division is between two mutually exclusive views of America: those who understand America and freedom from the perspective of 1776 and the American Revolution, and those who understand America and freedom from the perspective of 1789 and the French Revolution and its ideological heirs. Such current movements as postmodernism, political correctness, tribal and identity politics, the sexual revolution, critical theory (or grievance studies), and socialism all come down from 1789 and have nothing to do with the ideas of 1776. These movements and

Por todo el reino otomano son enviados heraldos que anuncian el reclutamiento de todos aquellos que sean capaces de portar armas, y el 5 de abril de 1453, como una marea que irrumpe de repente, aparece un inmenso ejército otomano en las llanuras de Bizancio que se extiende casi hasta los muros de la ciudad. A la cabeza de sus tropas, envuelto en una suntuosa túnica, cabalga el sultán para levantar su tienda frente a la puerta Lykas. Pero antes de dejar que el viento ondee sus estandartes ante su cuartel general, ordena que le extiendan su alfombra de rezos. Descalzo, pone sus pies sobre ella y dirigiendo su rostro a La Meca se inclina por tres veces haciendo llegar su frente hasta el suelo. Y detrás de él —¡maravilloso espectáculo!—, con el mismo gesto, en la misma dirección y al mismo ritmo, más de cien mil hombres de su ejército pronuncian la misma oración: Quiera Alá darles fuerzas y otorgarles la victoria. Y es ahora cuando se levanta el Sultán para pasar de humillado a desafiante, de siervo de Dios a señor y guerrero. Y ahora sus tellals, los pregoneros oficiales, se lanzan por todo el campamento para, a golpe de tambor y al son de fanfarrias, proclamar que el sitio de la ciudad ha comenzado.

I see a direct connection between the Fuenta Magna Bowl and Ogma, I believe the former is an authentic yet misplaced artifact that has its origins in the Middle East as the Irish/Celtic mythology as well. Ogma -being the god/originator of speech and language- carries the syllable of 'Og' in his name (according to a renowned authority on Irish Mythology, James Swagger) which signals some process of initiation through which other members could join into this culture. His family connections were confused (according to, The Dictionary Of Mythology) but it is said that he was the brother of Dagda and Lugh; and Dagda owned a magical cauldron known as Undry, which was always full and used to satisfy his enormous appetite. The [Tales depict Dagda as a figure of immense power, armed with a magic club to kill nine men with one blow]. This symbolism shows another remarkable link, however, to ancient Egypt with the Nine Bows representing its enemies. With Richard Cassaro's work, we now know the significance of the Godself icon which we see on the Fuenta Magna Bowl; and yet my observation and surprise here lies in the fact that the Godself icon could simply refer to Dagda being a figure of immense power, but what is more astounding is when I found that the Latin word caldaria (whence 'cauldron' was taken) means a 'cooking pot'. This is indeed amazing, but that's not all! This Latin word has its etymological roots in the Semitic languages, where the Old Babylonian word 'kid' meaning 'to cut/soften/dissolve' got preserved into Arabic with the same meaning as well and even a new word got derived therefrom: 'kidr'; which literally means a 'cooking pot'. It also happens to refer to one of God's names (in Islam) with the meaning of: Almighty. Moreover, the word 'Undry' could be looked at as if it were composed of two syllables: Un and Dry, with 'Un' signaling a continuous action in present and 'Dry' meaning 'to generate' and 'pour out' in the Semitic language.