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| 0cafe97 | Rich got a plan for living. Poor got a plan for dying. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| f6e5064 | The educated class knows the value of good health to quality of life and is willing to pay for it. The poor are more likely to trap themselves in a culture of smoking, poor nutrition, obesity, drugs, and only sporadic attention from a physician. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 01f8547 | On the Cancer Frontier, | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 5e3b56c | no one in any commercial seems to be unhappy or angry, whatever the circumstances. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 9113ecc | decorated with the | Tom Brokaw | ||
| b153be2 | The personal case histories were the most encouraging. A prominent Los Angeles public relations executive has been living with MM for fourteen years, rides horses, and has an altogether active life on drug maintenance. An Arizona man survived MM and with his wife set up a foundation and website for other families bewildered by the diagnosis. I learned, for the first time, that Frank McGee, host of the Today show from 1971 to 1974, suffered .. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 4caba9f | It was the beginning of his personal crusade to make life easier for the more than forty million disabled Americans. By 1990 he had moved Congress to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act, a sweeping piece of legislation that mandated changes in public buildings, accommodations, and transportation to make it easier for the disabled to function in American society. For Dole, it was his greatest legislative victory. Yet it was also a class.. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| c8f97a5 | constitutional revision commission. Simultaneously, Smith was becoming more involved with his profession through the American Bar Association. He met and became close to Lewis Powell of Virginia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg of New York, future justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. He says, "Powell appointed me to a committee" | Tom Brokaw | ||
| efb7f28 | outsider | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 7f2e7b9 | In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 72e8915 | Now Semco employees are free to customize their workdays, to come in earlier or later than traditional schedules. The hours they work are determined by their self-interest, not by company dictates. They're the best judges of the amount of time and the proper place necessary to get their job done. | Ricardo Semler | ||
| 6d43e6b | The second error is the assumption that business or the work environment is the only tribal affiliation people have. By sheer proximity, the workplace tribe may seem to dwarf all the others, but anyone who works at home will find they actually belong to four or five major tribes--starting with the family and extending outward to the neighborhood, the garden club, library volunteers, church, and the like. | Ricardo Semler | ||
| 9a16301 | Companies hoping to recruit the best and the brightest must demonstrate that they trust their employees with the freedom to work anywhere. They must assume that they're buying talent and dedication, not what the Brazilians call "butt-on-chair time." | Ricardo Semler | ||
| 78e37d7 | According to Ricardo Semler, "Growth and profit are a product of how people work together." | Josh Linkner | ||
| 86e4348 | Disruptors challenge assumptions. They shake the status quo. They are curious and creative. They adapt and improvise. They push the boundaries and shatter conventional wisdom. They'd rather forge new ground than blindly salute the flag of the past. | Josh Linkner | ||
| 336ee3e | The lesson is clear: quickly adopting future trends rather than clinging to yesterday's success is the only way to ensure long-term survival. | Josh Linkner | ||
| 8c077c8 | DHL covered each package in thermoactive foil. The foil was cooled down below the freezing point, turning the package jet black. So the competitors picked up a large, black package without any reason for alarm. But when temperatures rose, the specialized packaging turned bright yellow, with bold red lettering that read, "DHL IS FASTER." Before long, competitors were toting around bright packages in DHL's corporate colors that alerted the pu.. | Josh Linkner | ||
| c70248b | It is no wonder that most companies lack inspiration, when corporate America looks much like a sensory deprivation chamber: beige walls, faded carpet, high cubes, no windows, and bad lighting, and the only artistic stimulus to be found is the office equipment--your bathroom's shower stall is probably light-years ahead of your office environment when it comes to encouraging original thought. | Josh Linkner | ||
| 09bc90d | Upon my buried body lie lightly, gentle earth. | Beaumont and Fletcher | ||
| 4fafa1c | A soul as white as Heaven. | Beaumont and Fletcher | ||
| 257bf26 | It's insane to think how fast the unthinkable becomes the normal. | Melissa Kantor | ||
| e68c7cd | Only when I'd see a young girl I'd known in high school, walking down the street hand-in-hand with her returned soldier, did the deeper pain return. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 870e53d | The answer to the mystery is of course obvious but, because it is repellent to the prevailing cast of modern thinking, it is seldom considered. Egyptian civilization was not a 'development', it was a legacy. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 04d2a55 | Although I have no doubt that the ancients had developed special means for manipulating the physical world - means that our own technological society is sometimes unable to match - I think it is obvious that their main project was a profound spiritual quest & the dilation of the mind through the pursuit of esoteric knowledge. It is in this area, I believe, that we have the most to learn from our ancestors, where their great minds were put t.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| b2745b5 | Regardless of the fact that the express purpose of God's Deluge is to kill off most of mankind--apart, of course, from Noah and his descendants--there is talk of the need to: 'heal the earth which the angels have corrupted ... that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret things which the Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons.' [...] From such admonishments we may reasonably deduce a number of things about .. | mankind myth nephilim technology transmission watchers | Graham Hancock | |
| 0278e63 | We're in the hands of real magicians here, and real magicians know that with symbols. with the right symbols, with the right questions. they can lead you into initiating yourself. Provided, that is, you are a person who asks questions. And, if you are, then the minute you start asking questions about the pyramids you begin to stumble into a whole series of answers which lead you to other questions, and then more answers until finally you in.. | initiation robert-bauval symbolism | Graham Hancock | |
| 12d8b3a | at root, what unites us are our unproven irrational beliefs of one kind or another of non-material dimensions of reality, inhabited by incorporeal beings that interact with us and frame our destiny in mysterious ways | paranormal spiritual supernatural | Graham Hancock | |
| 513f89a | At Gunung Padang] First, the drill cores contained evidence--fragments of worked columnar basalt--that more man-made megalithic structures lay far beneath the surface. Secondly, the organic materials brought up in the drill cores began to yield older and older dates--3000 BC to 5000 BC, then 9600 BC as the drills bit deeper, then around 11,000 BC, then 15,000 BC and finally, at depths of 27.5 meters (90 feet) and more, an astonishing sequen.. | archeology carbon-dating evidence gunung-padang ice-age man-made megalithic-structures | Graham Hancock | |
| 7a6651b | The Great Pyramid of Giza served as a temporal anchor onto the Vernal Equinox day and hence it was given the name Khufu (aka, Chnoubos) which literally refers to the word 'beetle' for whatever symbolic reasons the ancient Egyptians found fit. Kheper, is however the direct reference which had been attached with the 'beetle' and yet has per se the literal linguistic meaning of 'tidings'. Therefore I cannot help but validly assert that the Ver.. | Ibrahim Ibrahim | ||
| a58b385 | Connecting the great universal myths of cataclysm, is it possible that such coincidences that cannot be coincidences, and accidents that cannot be accidents, could denote the global influence of an ancient, though as yet unidentified, guiding hand? If so, could it be that same hand, during and after the last Ice Age, which drew the series of highly accurate and technically advanced world maps reviewed in Part I? And might not that same hand.. | mythology | Graham Hancock | |
| e5d3fc1 | The "Garcilaso" mentioned by Markham is the chronicler Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, the son of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca princess, a heritage that gave him unique access to genuine Inca traditions, particularly since he was born and brought up in Cuzco and spoke Quechua, the language of the Incas, as his mother tongue. Had the megalithic elements of Sacsayhuaman been recent work, done in the century before Garcilaso's birth, there sh.. | enigma heritage inca sacsayhuaman traditions wonder | Graham Hancock | |
| d6fc0f0 | Cainan (sometimes the name is spelled Kainam) was the son of Arpachsad: "And the son grew, and his father taught him writing, and he went to seek for himself a place where he might seize for himself a city. And he found a writing, which former generations had carved on the rock, and he read what was thereon, and he transcribed it and sinned owing to it, for it contained the teaching of the Watchers in accordance with which they used to obse.. | astronomy generations knowledge sabians teachings watchers writing | Graham Hancock | |
| 8ac9005 | What he doesn't consider, in other words, is the possibility that consciousness comes first while physical realms and beings are manifestations or projections of that primordial consciousness--as above, so below, as many ancient wisdom traditions state. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 6247614 | Then there's the pillar statue in the semi-subterranean temple at Tiahuanaco [Bolivia]. Like the Totem Pole of Gobekli Tepe, it is anthropomorphic. Like the Totem Pole at Gobekli Tepe, it has serpents writhing up its side. Like the Totem Pole at Gobekli Tepe, the long fingers of its hands almost meet in front of its body. The face is human not animal, however, and it's heavily bearded. Nonetheless, the figure of an animal is carved on the s.. | cataclysm göbekli-tepe ice-age serpents tiahuanaco toxodon | Graham Hancock | |
| e80cdb9 | The fullest account we have of Oannes is found in surviving fragments of the works of a Babylonian priest called Berossos who wrote in the third century BC. [...] Oannes did not do his work alone but was supposedly the leader of a group of beings known as the Seven Apkallu--the "Seven Sages"--who were said to have lived "before the flood" (a cataclysmic global deluge features prominently in many Mesopotamian traditions, including those of S.. | archeology cataclysm civilization flood humanity past seven-sages | Graham Hancock | |
| b6ea451 | Like the legends of Kon-Tiki Viracocha [...], the South American civilizing hero, white-skinned and bearded like Quetzalcoatl and the Apkallu sages [...], who was said to have come to the Andes during a terrifying period, thousands of years in the past, "when the earth had been inundated by a great flood and plunged into darkness by the disappearance of the sun." (Exactly like Quetzalcoatl in Mexico, and the Apkallu sages in Mesopotamia, Vi.. | cataclysm civilization flood kon-tiki-viracocha quetzalcoatl south-america survivors | Graham Hancock | |
| efcce13 | Our pollution and neglect of the majestic garden of the earth, our rape of its resources, our abuse of the oceans and the rainforests, our fear, hatred and suspicion of one another multiplied by a hundred bitter regional and sectarian conflicts, our consistent track record of standing by and doing nothing while millions suffer, our ignorant, narrow-minded racism, our exclusivist religions, our forgetfulness that we are all brothers and sist.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| b74cec6 | It is a curious mystery [...] that the exact same notions of the Seven Sages as the bringers of civilization in the remotest antiquity, and of the preservation and repromulgation of "writings on stones from before the flood," turn up in the supposedly completely distinct and unrelated culture of Ancient Egypt. Of the greatest interest, at any rate, is the [Temple of Horus]'s idea of itself expressed in the acres of enigmatic inscriptions th.. | atlantis cataclysm civilization egypt mystery | Graham Hancock | |
| f948aec | Was the Younger Dryas cold event that began so suddenly and so mysteriously 12,800 years ago brought on by the effects of a large comet hitting the earth? | Graham Hancock | ||
| 0259bef | a team of Japanese engineers had recently tried to build a 35-feet-high replica of the Great Pyramid (rather smaller than the original, which was 481 feet 5 inches in height). The team started off by limiting itself strictly to techniques proved by archaeology to have been in use during the Fourth Dynasty. However, construction of the replica under these limitations turned out to be impossible and, in due course, modern earth-moving, quarry.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 0852162 | For when we go into the egoless state and merge with a sense of unity consciousness, we're actually present in real time, outside linear time and inside eternity. And in that moment you might, as William Blake said: . . . see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. | Graham Hancock | ||
| e3582b3 | Our magic,' said Tozi's mother, 'comes not from the gods, or from men, but from the source of all created things. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 83a10f8 | The Sabians were allowed to build a new Temple of the Moon God, and to continue their religious rites, after the Arab General Ibn Ghanam conquered Harran in the seventh century AD. This in itself is a sign of most unusual favor, since Islamic armies normally offered "pagans" the choice of either conversion or death. Even more interesting, however, is the Sabians' encounter with the Abbasid Caliph Abu Jafar Abdullah al-Ma'mun, who passed thr.. | conversion great-pyramid islam learning maps sabians | Graham Hancock | |
| 02e36f1 | To work upon the world of created things and to magnify darkness or light, as we choose, to glorify good or evil, as we choose, to exalt love or hate, as we choose ... The power is the gift but the choice is always ours. | Graham Hancock |