History on Fire with Anton Bie
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“In order to depict a battle, there is required one of those powerful painters who have chaos in their brushes” — Victor Hugo “Inconceivable!” — From The Princess Bride A little over 2,000 years ago, Rome was a well-oiled war machine crushing e
“Reflecting upon the chiefs I had known, I realized that here had never been one who was very well off. Poverty was part of a chief’s obligations…” — Frank Bird Linderman “While we painted ourselves the drums kept beating, and our women sang
“This animal is a monster whose father is a lion; it remains open what the mother is.” — Jean-Baptiste Boulanger Duhamel“I would be tempted to imagine that we are dealing with a witch, or the devil in person, if only I could believe it.” — Jean
“…a mad, wicked folly…” — Queen Victoria about the notion of women having the right to vote“When I watched a policeman fell a girl to the ground and kick her across the platform, my only regret was that I had no weapon with which to strike him
“I cut off their heads. I burned them with fire. With their blood I dyed the mountain red like red wool. Men I impaled on stakes. The city I destroyed, devastated… the young men and maidens I burned in the fire.” — Ashurnairpal II “I filled the
“Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques or means whic
“Energy is eternal delight.” — William Blake “Hong Kong in the 1950s was a depressed place. Post–World War II Hong Kong had suffered from unemployment, a poor economy, over-crowding, homelessness, and people taking advantage of each other. Gang
“If I knew the way, I would take you home.” — From the song Ripple by the Grateful Dead “The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.” — Bertrand Russell “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” — Michae
“That is the nicest guilt trip anybody has ever given me in my entire life.” — Dan Carlin Dan Carlin is one of my all time favorite human beings, and on top of that an incredible podcaster. He’s now a published author as well. In this episode w
“A Socrates gone mad.” — Plato referring to Diogenes “Had I not been Alexander, I would have liked to have been Diogenes.” — Alexander the Great "If I wasn't Diogenes, I would be wishing to be Diogenes too." — Diogenes“There are nowadays profes
“It's just incredible that this little hand has killed Nazis, has scythed them down by the hundreds, without missing…” — Charlie Chaplin “Miss Pavlichenko's well known to fame, Russia's your country, fighting is your game, Your smile shines as
“In order to depict a battle, there is required one of those powerful painters who have chaos in their brushes” — Victor Hugo “Inconceivable!” — From The Princess Bride A little over 2,000 years ago, Rome was a well-oiled war machine crushing e
“Bits of weapons and horses' limbs lay about, and human heads fixed to tree-trunks. In groves nearby were barbaric altars, where the Germans had laid the tribunes and senior centurions and sacrificed them.” — Tacitus “It stands on record that
“Even if I go to Hell, I’ll find a way to enjoy it.” — Ikkyu “Watching my four year old daughter dance, I can’t break free of her. Forgetting my duties, I slip into freedom.” — Ikkyu "After ten days in this temple, my mind is spinning. Between
“The autumn breeze of a single night of love is better than a hundred thousand years of sterile sitting meditation.” — Ikkyu “Thirsty, you dream of water. Cold, you want fire. Not me: I want the firm warm breasts and wetness of a woman.” — Ikky
“The strong do what they want, and the weak suffer what they must.” — Athenian embassy to Melos via Thucydides “As far as right and wrong are concerned, our people think there is no difference between the two—that those who still preserve thei
“It is true that I wished and still wish to escape, as is lawful for any captive or prisoner.” — Joan of Arc “I have greater fear of failing my voices in saying something that displeases them than I have of answering you.” — Joan of Arc address
“We know that everything that she has said has come to pass, that her words are always confirmed by the event—she has in truth come to achieve great things in this world.” — Antonio Morosini“Go and camp for today, because it is quite late. But
“Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.” — Star Wars “… No one else, neither a king nor a duke nor the daughter of the king of Scotland, nor any other who can recover the kingdom of France, and he will have no help, if not through me…” —
“No person in the Middle Ages, male or female, has been the subject of more historical studies than Joan of Arc.” — Kelly Devries“The life of Joan is such a flagrant beating of the odds that no facts sufficiently explain the course of it. She w
“Not since the panic-ridden days in 1888, when Jack the Ripper was abroad in the East End, had London known such a reign of terror as that which existed in this wartime February...” — Scotland Yard Chief Superintendent Fred CherrillWhat I am g
“Among other things, the Way of the Samurai requires that he realize that something may occur at any moment to test the depth of his resolution, and day and night he must sort out his thought and prepare a line of action. Depending on the circu
“Death poemsAre a delusion. You just die.”— Zen monk Kanzawa TokoThe tale of the 47 Ronin is one of the most renowned revenge tales to ever come out of Japan. It is the subject of countless books, plays, and movies. It is also a story that has
“There was money that wasn’t coming back and the choice was between leaving some cardinal dead on the street or to strike someone close to the Pope. We chose the second path.” — Antonio Mancini “We of the Magliana gang were street bandits. We l
“A lifetime serving one machineIs ten times worse than prison” — The Clash (from the song Bankrobber)“We were treated like movie stars with muscle. We had it all, just for the asking… Anything I wanted was a phone call away. Free cars. The keys
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