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    I am reading Agamemnon from Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a good book from the start. This is the man of the known sentence
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    That we use so often to cover our mistakes.

    Read something of Seneca "The Young" for the times he saved you and you used that sentence. Maybe there are books and text of him on the Internet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pinhodecarlos View Post
    Started "The Key to Rebecca" by Ken Follett.
    Finished. Next I will start "Inca - Princesse du Soliel" by Antoine Bertrand Daniel in three volumes.

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    Finished reading "Inca Vol 1 - Princesse du Soliel", next I will read "Inca Vol 2 - L'Or de Cuzco".

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    I finished reading David A. Campbell, "Greek Lyric Poetry" and I am now reading "Asterix in Spain".

    One thing about art, is no matter in what style and century is written, all art moves the human emotions and one thing that one day could capture the human spirit, will capture others spirits in the future, no man is so distant from other man that can not understand the feelings that powered him to write or sketched or painting or music his feelings.

    But the main thing that moves me is to understand other humans on all times. I wish I could but I am still trying. I will try that while I am alive.

    I just loved Tyrtaeus, son of Archembrotus, a Laconian or Milesian elegiac poet and pipe-player. It is said that by means of his songs he urged on the Lacedaemonians in their war with the Messenians and in this way enabled them to get the upper hand. He is very ancient, contemporary with those called the Seven sages, or even earlier. He flourished in the 35th Olympiad (640–37 BC). He wrote a constitution for the Lacedaemonians, precepts in elegiac verse, and war songs, in five books.

    I am loving René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. We are all there from kat to the crazy Duke. We are all there in my mind...



    Now I will sing another song.
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    The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

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    A Citizen's Dissent
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    O Conto da Ilha Desconhecida
    The Tale of the Unknown Island

    Jose Saramago
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    O Melhor de Mim
    The Best of Me

    Nicholas Sparks
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    Einstein's God

    by Krista Tippet.



    A good book with the subtitle of "Conversations about Science and the Human Spirit". A book easy to read, nothing heavy, as simple as E=mc2. Relativity speaking.
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    Natural Hazards: New York City vs. The Sea
    In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, scientists and officials are trying to protect the largest U.S. city from future floods

    By Jeff Tollefson and Nature magazine

    As the humbled city begins to rebuild, scientists and engineers are trying to assess what happened during Sandy and what problems New York is likely to face in a warmer future. But in a dilemma that echoes wider debates about climate change, there is no consensus about the magnitude of the potential threats — and no agreement about how much the city should spend on coastal defenses to reduce them.

    More on: http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...ity-vs-the-sea
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    Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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