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• He beat back the Greeks and reclaimed Rome for our people. Indeed, he was the one who destroyed the Macedonian threat and who single-handedly annihilated the greatest Greek general who had ever lived. Kyrian of Thrace.” Real hatred gleamed in his eyes, but she wasn’t sure who it was meant for. His grandfather or Kyrian. “You mean Kyrian Hunter?” she asked. “The guy with the minivan who lives a few blocks over?” Valerius’s eyes sparked at that. “He’s driving a minivan?” There was no mistaking the humor in his tone.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Block, Real, Mean

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.287, Macmillan

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• Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.

  William L. Shirer

  Taken, Moon, Hydrogen Bomb

  William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong.

  Umberto Eco

  Strong, People, Support

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valerius’s shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely, and there was a small aching need in him for somebody to notice, even if they were not glad, that he had come home.

  Rosemary Sutcliff

  Lonely, Home, Needs

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• I am praetor of the legion," Reyna said. "I judge this to be in the best interest of Rome." "To get yourself killed? To break our oldest laws and travel to the Ancient Lands? How will you even find their ship, assuming you survive the journey?" [Octavian] "I will find them," Reyna said.

  Rick Riordan

  Journey, Law, Land

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• How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Time, Cities, World

  1860 The Marble Faun, ch.12.

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• All things may be bought in Rome with money.

  Juvenal

  Money, May, All Things

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• Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

  Goldwin Smith

  Government, Law, Arms

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Land, Political, Arrogance

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• Since Christ is the only way to the Father, in order to highlight His living and saving presence in the Church and the world, the International Eucharistic Congress will take place in Rome, on the occasion of the Great Jubilee. The Year 2000 will be intensely Eucharistic: in the Sacrament of the Eucharist the Savior, who took flesh in Mary's womb twenty centuries ago, continues to offer Himself to humanity as the source of Divine Life

  Pope John Paul II

  Father, Order, Years

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• The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . . . the cook, who had up to that time been employed as a slave of low price, become dear: what had been nothing but a metier was elevated to an art.

  Livy

  Art, Food, Army

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• I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Fire, Paris

  Adolf Hitler (1972). “Secret conversations, 1941-1944”, Octagon Press, Limited

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• In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

  Tadao Ando

  Significant, Structure, Pantheon

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• Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

  Samuel Johnson

  Culture, Elegance, Fountain

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). “Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson”, p.199

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• The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, with every new work that we round and finish, we escape from ourselves, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us.

  Romain Rolland

  Lying, Men, Soul

  "John Christopher: Journey's end".

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• Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan virtue, if these two words are compatible. The word pagan, when applied to Rome, early possesses the significance charged with horror which the early Christian controversialists gave it. The Romans really were an atheistic and idolatrous people; not idolatrous with regard to images made of stone or bronze, but idolatrous with regard to themselves. It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form of patriotism.

  Simone Weil

  Christian, Children, Inspiration

  "Prelude to Politics (1943)". "The Simone Weil Reader". Book edited by George A. Panichas, p. 220, 1957.

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• For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

  John Milton

  Freedom, Men, Skills

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.245

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• It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

  Rick Riordan

  Purple, Bed, Capes

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• And yes,Percy,of course they are now in our United States. Look at your symbol,the eagle of Zeus. Look at the statue of Prometheus in Rockefeller Center,the Greek facades of our government builidings in Washington. I defy you to find any American city where the Olympians are not proeminently displayed, in multiple places. Like it or not-and believe me,plenty of people weren't very found of Rome,either-America is now the heart of the flame. It is the great power of the West.And so Olympus is here.And we are here.

  Rick Riordan

  Believe, Heart, Cities

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• Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone's servants. The job of the leader was to lead. But Christ invented the notion that the way to lead is by serving the needs of others, especially those who are the most needy.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Jobs, Leader, Accountability

  Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• I'm the son of Jupiter, I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion. I slew the Trojan sea monster, I toppled the black throne of Kronos, and destroyed Titan Krios with my own hand. And now I'm going to destroy you Porphyrion, and feed you to your own wolves." "Wow, dude," Leo muttered, "You been eating red meat?

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Son, Hands

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• I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

  Naomi Campbell

  School, London, Born

  Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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• When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.

  Robert Pattinson

  Flying, Tears, London

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• If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, Would Be, Unattractive

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• When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Done, Literature

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.220, Macmillan

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