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Archimedes
c.
287
bc
c.
287
bc
1
Eureka! [I've got it!]
Give me but one firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the earth.
on the action of a lever
Eureka! [I've got it!]
Vitruvius Pollio
De Architectura
bk. 9, preface, sect. 10
Give me but one firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the earth.
on the action of a lever
Pappus
Synagoge
bk. 8, proposition 10, sect. 11
Ardrey, Robert
1908–80
1908–80
1
Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born.
Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born.
African Genesis
(1961)
Arendt, Hannah
1906–75
1906–75
1
It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying
banality of evil
.
of Adolf Eichmann, responsible for the administration of the Nazi concentration camps
It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying
banality of evil
.
of Adolf Eichmann, responsible for the administration of the Nazi concentration camps
Eichmann in Jerusalem
(1963) ch. 15
Argenson, Marquis d'
(
René Louis de Voyer d'Argenson
) 1694–1757
(
René Louis de Voyer d'Argenson
) 1694–1757
1
Laisser-faire.No interference.
Laisser-faire.No interference.
Mémoires et Journal Inédit du Marquis d'Argenson
(1858 ed.) vol. 5.
Argenson, Comte d'
1696–1764
1696–1764
1
desfontaines
: I must live.
d'argenson
: I do not see the necessity.
on Desfontaines having produced a pamphlet satirizing D'Argenson, his benefactor
desfontaines
: I must live.
d'argenson
: I do not see the necessity.
on Desfontaines having produced a pamphlet satirizing D'Argenson, his benefactor
Voltaire
Alzire
(1736) "Discours Préliminaire" footnote, in
Oeuvres Complètes Théâtre
(1877) vol. 2
Ariosto, Ludovico
1474–1533
1474–1533
1
Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa.Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa.Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
Orlando Furioso
(1532) canto 10, st. 84
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