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I read this years ago. I don't remember a thing. I do believe it is time for a re-read. I'm in.

The March of Folly--Barbara W. Tuchman
The Guns of August--Barbara W. Tuchman
Storm of Steel--Ernst Junger
From Mylos to My Lai--Lawrence Tritle

There is a documentary on the allegory of the cave made in 2006. Perhaps that would offer an alternative to The Matrix. It would be a more direct dramatization of what Plato actually wrote.
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The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe is a classic.

Kerouac mentions drugs quite a bit (as well as being quite fried) so you might try On the Road.

The Seven Story Mountain.

I find that the key to understanding most things Buddhist is keeping the notion that all is in flux--impermanence--in the forefront of thought. It is the great unalterable given of the universe...

Prayer, by H. D. Thoreau

Great God, I ask for no meaner pelf
Than that I may not disappoint myself,
That in my action I may soar as high
As I can now discern with this clear eye.

And next in...

From Dr. Horrible's Sing along blog

It may not feel too classy
Begging just to eat
But you know who does that? Lassie
And she always gets a treat

So you wonder what your part is
Because...

“Hey, the offensive linemen are the biggest guys on the field, they're bigger than everybody else, and that's what makes them the biggest guys on the field.”--John Madden

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I guess I stand corrected in giving physicists more credit than is their due.

I gather it all comes down to how one interprets Bell's...

No. Nothing is passed. It is inherent in the function. The contingency rests with the measurement. The "results" are always there. For instance, consider the simple function 3X=Y. The...

Ah, the Tao of Physics stuff rearing its head again. I haven't read a debate over this for, what, five days now. LOL

Entanglement isn't really that hard to sort out. You have two paired...

I just stumbled upon this untitled little quatrain in a book I am reading. It was never previously published.

"Hide Thou Thy face in clouds and mysteries
Wield as Thou wilt Thy power that...

It's from Leaves of Grass, poem Whoever You are, Holding Me now in Hand, lines 32-33.

"For it is not for what I have put into it that I have written this book,
Nor is it by reading it you will...

"The fact that slaughter is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later someone...

You looking just for WWI quotes? I have tons of books on the Great War and can scrounge around.

In case you're just looking for general ones, here are a few:

“Committing suicide—out of fear of...

Glad to help. I never read the book. Let me know if it is worth the read.

Just for something to do, my own translations of the rest of the family mottoes:

Mompesson: Cancerata pereat rosa ...

literally:

"all * rose * in the presence of * thorns" so a basic translation would be

"all roses have thorns" or "every rose has thorns".



In the Institutio Oratoria I found it as:

It's in A Sample Case of Humor by Strickland Gillilan, titled "Waiting".

http://books.google.com/books?id=VkAOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA7&dq=a+sample+case+of+humor&lr=&ei=DhU6SqmwCZWKzQSjzr2YAw#PPA111,M1

It's a quote from a graphic novel. Well, maybe its a hope-to-be graphic novel. I couldn't tell if you could order it yet or not.

It's the header for the second character, berserker, listed on...

Was RC for 20 odd years and came in second for me also.:lol: Mine didn't taper off as much as yours toward the end. I think it described me closer than I expected. I have no idea what unitarian...

Most of mine have already been suggested but:

Since you like Rutherford, I suggest Sarum--IMO his best one;
Gary Jennings' Aztec is excellent;
Colleen McCullough's The First Man in Rome and The...

This is a bit off the OP but I have to point out that Thoreau left Walden and went into town all the time. While he was there, he still worked in his family's pencil-making business. Indeed, while...

Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk
The Illusion of Victory by Thomas Fleming

Roman Catholic---> agnostic