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Natural Wonders

Barrier Reef
"The world’s finest wilderness lies beneath the waves."
– Robert Wyland

Cliffs Dover
"I have loved England, dearly and deeply, / Since that first morning, shining and pure, / The white cliffs of Dover I saw rising steeply / Out of the sea that once made her secure."
– Alice Duer Miller

Crater Lake
"Blue silence, O lake of silent blue, – within your sapphired deeps the gods have fought titanic battles. Now an azured peace broods over your bestudded, jewelled breasts."
– Wesley LaViolette

Dead Sea
"The sea drives truth into a man like salt."
– Hilaire Belloc

Everest
"Only if you’ve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."
– Richard Nixon

Eyjafjallajökull
"Many a fire there burns beneath the ground."
– Empedocles

Galapagos
"Whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
– Charles Darwin

Giant's Causeway
"A great profusion of things, which are splendid or valuable in themselves, is magnificent."
– Edmund Burke

Ha Long Bay
"O scenes of the beautiful world! Never have you presented yourself to more appreciative eyes."
– Thomas Mann

Kilimanjaro
"Mountains are Earth’s undecaying monuments."
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Lysefjord
"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty."
– John Ruskin

Pantanal
"Water is the driving force of all nature."
– Leonardo da Vinci

Piopiotahi
"Dark ocean walls, majestically steep, / That dare the skies, that guard a solitude / Of straitened sea from every tempest rude / That uncontrolled molests the outer deep!"
– William Gay

Torres Del Paine
"Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery."
– John Ruskin

Tsingy
"Beauty can pierce one like pain."
– Thomas Mann

Uluru
"Isolated rock, that stands in silence caress the earth, while waters of tears carry ancient stories down your jagged crevasses, to crystal pools where women sing, wash, dance, in ritual, protect the secrets of your dreaming."
– Eva Johnson

Yosemite
"It was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more butiful than any built by the hand of man."
– Theodore Roosevelt


Techs

Pottery 1
"That shapeless, lifeless mass of clay / Rise up to meet the master’s hand, / And now contract and now expand, / And even his slightest touch obey."
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Pottery 2
"My thoughts are whirled like a potter’s wheel; I know not where I am, nor what I do."
– John Talbot from 'Henry VI, Part 1' by William Shakespeare

Animal Husbandry 1
"Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds."
– The Bible, Proverbs 27:23

Animal Husbandry 2
"Nothing is more profitable than to take good care of your cattle."
– Cato the Elder

Mining 1
"Leave no stone unturned."
– Euripides

Mining 2
"Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers."
– A.D. Posey

Sailing 1
"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."
– Augustus Hare

Sailing 2
"A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind."
– Webb Chiles

Astrology 1
"What are ye orbs? The words of God? The Scriptures of the skies?"
– Philip James Bailey

Astrology 2
"This hairy meteor did announce / The fall of sceptres and of crowns."
– Samuel Butler

Irrigation 1
"Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world."
– Charles Mackay

Irrigation 2
"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."
– Thomas Fuller

Archery 1
"Secure behind the Telamonian shield / The skilful archer wide surveyed the field, / With every shaft some hostile victim slew, / Then close beneath the seven-fold orb withdrew."
– Homer

Archery 2
"Tension weakens the bow; the want of it, the mind."
– Publilius Syrus

Writing 1
"The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power."
– Francis Bacon

Writing 2
"Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Masonry 1
"You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal."
– Augustus Caesar

Masonry 2
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
– David Brinkley

Bronze Working 1
"So was the dread strife of the Trojans and Achaeans left to itself, and oft to this side and to that surged the battle over the plain, as they aimed one at the other their bronze-tipped spears between the Simoïs and the streams of Xanthus."
– Homer

Bronze Working 2
"Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze."
– Napoléon Bonaparte

The Wheel 1
"Fortune’s wheel is ever turning."
– Polish proverb

The Wheel 2
"Blood alone moves the wheels of history."
– Benito Mussolini

Celestial Navigation 1
"I would not creep along the coast but steer out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars."
– George Eliot

Celestial Navigation 2
"The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Currency 1
"He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread."
– Daniel Webster

Currency 2
"Money is coined liberty."
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Horseback Riding 1
"Wherever man has left his footprints in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization, we find the hoofprint of a horse beside it."
– John Trotwood Moore

Horseback Riding 2
"The history of mankind is carried on the back of a horse."
– Unknown

Iron Working 1
"Iron, at the same time the most useful and the most fatal instrument in the hand of mankind."
– Pliny the Elder

Iron Working 2
"Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin."
– Homer

Shipbuilding 1
"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Shipbuilding 2
"What divides the mariner from his death, but the thickness of a plank?"
– Juan Eusebio Nieremberg

Mathematics 1
"Mathematics links the abstract world of mental concepts to the real world of physical things without being located completely in either."
– Ian Stewart

Mathematics 2
"The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress."
– Francis Cornford

Construction 1
"Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts."
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Construction 2
"Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations."
– Leonardo da Vinci

Engineering 1
"Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth."
– Archimedes

Engineering 2
"Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man."
– Thomas Tredgold

Military Tactics 1
"It is better to go on striking in the same direction than to move one’s forces this way and that."
– Carl von Clausewitz

Military Tactics 2
"There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."
– George S. Patton

Apprenticeship 1
"Practice is the best of all instructors."
– Publilius Syrus

Apprenticeship 2
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron."
– Horace Mann

Stirrups 1
"Aye, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, / And the sound of iron on stone, / And how the silence surged softly backward, / When the plunging hoofs were gone."
– Walter de la Mare

Stirrups 2
"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider."
– Augustine of Hippo

Machinery 1
"The book of the science of mechanics must precede the book of useful inventions."
– Leonardo da Vinci

Machinery 2
"Ten men, by the aid of this machinery, can accomplish with uniformity, celerity and ease, what formerly required the uncertain labour of one hundred and ten."
– Richard Beamish

Education 1
"As the rational soul distinguishes us from brutes; so education carries on the distinction, and makes some less brutish than others."
– Daniel Defoe

Education 2
"No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows."
– J. Robert Oppenheimer

Military Engineering 1
"The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer."
– Motto of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II

Military Engineering 2
"God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions."
– Voltaire

Castles 1
"A man’s house is his castle, and each man’s home is his safest refuge."
– Edward Coke

Castles 2
"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self."
– Franz Kafka

Cartography 1
"Skilled in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands, / And, with his compass, measures seas and lands."
– John Dryden

Cartography 2
"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which humanity is always landing."
– Oscar Wilde

Mass Production 1
"The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it."
– Vannevar Bush

Mass Production 2
"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."
– Henry Ford

Banking 1
"Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master."
– Francis Bacon

Banking 2
"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."
– Voltaire

Gunpowder 1
"Remember, remember, the fifth of November, the gunpowder, treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot."
– English folk verse

Gunpowder 2
"There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder."
– John Ruskin

Printing 1
"A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
– John Milton

Printing 2
"The discovery of the art of printing unbarred afresh the gates of Heaven, and let in that flood of light, of knowledge, and of wisdom."
– Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Square Rigging 1
"Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow’d sea, Breasting the lofty surge."
– William Shakespeare

Square Rigging 2
"We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."
– Bertha Calloway

Astronomy 1
"The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens."
– Anaxagoras

Astronomy 2
"When I follow the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth; I ascend to Zeus himself."
– Ptolemy

Metal Casting 1
"In hissing flames huge silver bars are roll’d, / And stubborn brass, and tin, and solid gold; / Before, deep fix’d, the eternal anvils stand; / The ponderous hammer loads his better hand."
– Homer

Metal Casting 2
"Though all men be made of one metal, yet they be not cast all in one mold."
– John Lyly

Siege Tactics 1
"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts."
– Laocoön from 'Aeneid' by Virgil

Siege Tactics 2
"He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious."
– Sun Tzu

Industrialization 1
"The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war."
– Charles Babbage

Industrialization 2
"Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can itself only come from widespread industrialisation."
– Jamsetji Tata

Scientific Theory 1
"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."
– Richard Feynman

Scientific Theory 2
"Nature is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, or cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operation are understandable to men."
– Galileo Galilei

Ballistics 1
"Cannon-balls may aid the truth, / But thought’s a weapon stronger; / We’ll win our battles by its aid, / Wait a little longer."
– Charles Mackay

Ballistics 2
"The change of momentum of a body is proportional to the impulse impressed on the body, and happens along the straight line on which that impulse is impressed."
– Newton's second law of motion

Military Science 1
"Man’s mind ranges unrestrained in counsel."
– Motto of NATO

Military Science 2
"War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perseverance, by time, and by practice."
– Alexander Hamilton

Steam Power 1
"I sell here, sir, what all the world desires to have — POWER."
– Matthew Boulton

Steam Power 2
"If the steam engine be the most powerful instrument in the hands of man, to alter the face of the physical world, it operates, at the same time, as a powerful moral lever in forwarding the great cause of civilization."
– William Huskisson

Sanitation 1
"Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta."
– Brian Aldiss

Sanitation 2
"Cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves."
– Francis Bacon

Economics 1
"Money alone sets all the world in motion."
– Publilius Syrus

Economics 2
"When reason rules, money is a blessing."
– Publilius Syrus

Rifling 1
"The only real power comes out of a long rifle."
– Joseph Stalin

Rifling 2
"God made man, but Samuel Colt made them equal."
– Old frontier saying

Flight 1
"Men had by common consent adopted human flight as the standard of impossibility. When a man said, 'It can’t be done; a man might as well try to fly,' he was understood as expressing the final limit of impossibility."
– Wilbur Wright

Flight 2
"The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality."
– Louis Bleriot

Replaceable Parts 1
"Machines with interchangeable parts can now be constructed with great economy of effort. In spite of much complexity, they perform reliably. Witness the humble typewriter, or the movie camera, or the automobile."
– Vannevar Bush

Replaceable Parts 2
"I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts."
The President from 'The Madwoman of Chaillot' by Jean Giraudoux

Steel 1
"If you put in the work to sharpen the steel, it will eventually turn into needles."
– Vietnamese proverb

Steel 2
"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
– Richard Nixon

Electricity 1
"Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature."
– Michael Faraday

Electricity 2
"Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world’s machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels."
– Nikola Tesla

Radio 1
"The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums."
– Marshall McLuhan

Radio 2
"Unwittingly then had I discovered an Invisible Empire of the Air, intangible, yet solid as granite, whose structure shall persist while man inhabits the planet."
– Lee De Forest

Chemistry 1
"Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves."
– Primo Levi

Chemistry 2
"The general disposition of the land is one of metals in the west, giving way, as you travel eastward, to a varied landscape of nonmetals, which terminates in largely inert elements at the eastern shoreline."
– Peter Atkins

Combustion 1
"Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past."
– Cyril Connolly

Combustion 2
"The engine of the tank is as much a weapon as the main gun."
– Heinz Guderian

Advanced Flight 1
"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. This I conceive to be fortunate, for man, by reason of his greater intellect, can more reasonably hope to equal birds in knowledge than to equal nature in the perfection of her machinery."
– Wilbur Wright

Advanced Flight 2
"A mile of highway will take you a mile, but a mile of runway will take you anywhere."
– Unknown

Rocketry 1
"It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven."
– Wernher von Braun

Rocketry 2
"The fate of human civilization will depend on whether the rockets of the future carry the astronomer’s telescope or a hydrogen bomb."
– Bernard Lovell

Advanced Ballistics 1
"Incoming fire has the right of way."
– Unknown

Advanced Ballistics 2
"If the enemy is within range, so are you."
– Unknown

Combined Arms 1
"From the Halls of Montezuma / To the shores of Tripoli; / We fight our country’s battles / In the air, on land, and sea."
– Marines’ Hymn

Combined Arms 2
"We have gotten into the fashion of talking of cavalry tactics, artillery tactics, and infantry tactics. This distinction is nothing but mere abstraction. There is but one art, and that is the tactics of the combined arms."
– Major Gerald Gilbert

Plastics 1
"Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels, one warehouses, another villas."
– George Henry Lewes

Plastics 2
"Plastics are the workhorse material of the modern economy."
– Martin R. Stuchtey

Computers 1
"The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism."
– Charles Babbage

Computers 2
"Computers are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result."
– Richard Dawkins

Nuclear Fission 1
"This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension."
– Winston Churchill

Nuclear Fission 2
"Fission is a process of deadly fascination; had nature chosen her constants just a little differently, we should have been deprived of its potential for social good and spared its power for social evil."
– Denys Wilkinson

Synthetic Materials 1
"The structure known, but not yet accessible by synthesis, is to the chemist what the unclimbed mountain, the uncharted sea, the untilled field, the unreached planet, are to other men."
– Robert Burns Woodward

Synthetic Materials 2
"The unique challenge which chemical synthesis provides for the creative imagination and the skilled hand ensures that it will endure as long as men write books, paint pictures, and fashion things which are beautiful, or practical, or both."
– Robert Burns Woodward

Telecommunications 1
"In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin."
– Marshall McLuhan

Telecommunications 2
"A world without radio is a deaf world. A world without television is a blind world. A world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world."
– Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Satellites 1
"Myth has become reality: Earth’s gravity conquered"
– French daily 'Le Figaro'

Satellites 2
"The race for control of the universe has started."
– George Reedy

Guidance Systems 1
"It’s the guided thought that conquers; not the guided missile."
– Helen Nielsen

Guidance Systems 2
"If you ask for guidance, you shall have it; and if you pursue something, you shall find it."
– Muhammad al-Mahdi

Lasers 1
"Better to illuminate than merely to shine."
– Thomas Aquinas

Lasers 2
"Laser technology has fulfilled our people’s ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves and cleaves."
– Ben Lerner

Composites 1
"Parts and wholes evolve in consequence of their relationship, and the relationship itself evolves."
– Richard Lewontin

Composites 2
"The history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man’s accommodation with his conscience."
– A. G. Philidor from 'The Last Castle' by Jack Vance

Stealth Technology 1
"Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible."
– Frank Gaines

Stealth Technology 2
"O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands."
– Sun Tzu

Robotics 1
"No robot may harm humanity, or through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm."
– Isaac Asimov

Robotics 2
"Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children."
– Marvin Minsky

Nanotechnology 1
"Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms."
– William Powell

Nanotechnology 2
"Everything being made of atoms, the capability to measure, manipulate, simulate and visualize at the atomic scale potentially touches every material aspect of our interaction with the world around us."
– John Marburger

Future Tech 1
"As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity."
– Alexis de Tocqueville

Future Tech 2
"The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man’s ability to invent which has made human society what it is."
– Dennis Gabor

Nuclear Fusion 1
"The power of the Sun — in the palm of my hand."
– Doctor Octopus from 'Spider-Man 2'

Nuclear Fusion 2
"There is no question among scientists that this gigantic source of energy exists. What is lacking is the match to set the bonfire alight, or it may be the detonator to cause the dynamite to explode."
– Winston Churchill


Civics

Code Of Laws 1
"With laws shall our land be built, and with lawlessness wasted and spoiled."
– Njáls saga

Code Of Laws 2
"Let the welfare of the people be the highest law."
– Cicero

Craftsmanship 1
"None but a craftsman can judge of a craft."
– Pythagoras

Craftsmanship 2
"Neither talent without instruction nor instruction without talent can produce the perfect craftsman."
– Vitruvius

Foreign Trade 1
"Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions."
– Alexis de Tocqueville

Foreign Trade 2
"The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people."
– Montesquieu

Military Tradition 1
"There is no use for bravery unless justice is present, and no need for bravery if all men are just."
– Agesilaus II

Military Tradition 2
"The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom."
– Sun Tzu

State Workforce 1
"Stubborn labor conquers everything."
– Virgil

State Workforce 2
"If little labour, little are our gains: Man’s fortunes are according to his pains."
– Robert Herrick

Early Empire 1
"I came, I saw, I conquered."
– Julius Caesar

Early Empire 2
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
– Athenian envoys from 'History of the Peloponnesian War' by Thucydides

Mysticism 1
"As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity."
– G. K. Chesterton

Mysticism 2
"The gods love what is mysterious, and dislike what is evident."
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Games Recreation 1
"The only people who object to escapism are jailers."
– C. S. Lewis

Games Recreation 2
"A sense of humour is a sense of proportion."
– Khalil Gibran

Political Philosophy 1
"Man is by nature a political animal."
– Aristotle

Political Philosophy 2
"The government most comformable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established."
– Montesquieu

Drama Poetry 1
"Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, / And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; / Round many western islands have I been / Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold."
– John Keats

Drama Poetry 2
"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

Military Training 1
"A city is well-fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick."
– Lycurgus

Military Training 2
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
– George S. Patton

Defensive Tactics 1
"Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie."
– Simonides of Ceos

Defensive Tactics 2
"That general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack."
– Sun Tzu

Recorded History 1
"Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it."
– Oscar Wilde

Recorded History 2
"The world’s history is the world’s judgment."
– Friedrich Schiller

Theology 1
"What is hateful to you, do not to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary."
– Hillel the Elder

Theology 2
"Do not seek to understand in order to believe, but believe that thou mayest understand."
– Augustine of Hippo

Naval Tradition 1
"We have fed our sea for a thousand years / And she calls us, still unfed, / Though there’s never a wave of all her waves / But marks our English dead."
– Rudyard Kipling

Naval Tradition 2
"The best ambassador is a warship."
– Admiral Michelle Howard

Feudalism 1
"No lord without land; no land without a lord."
– French feudal law

Feudalism 2
"Hear you my lord, that I shall be to you both faithful and true, and shall owe my fidelity unto you, for the land that I hold of you."
– English Oath of Fealty

Civil Service 1
"Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law."
– Solon

Civil Service 2
"Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary."
– Nathan Hale

Mercenaries 1
"Their shoulders held the sky suspended; / They stood, and earth’s foundations stay; / What God abandoned, these defended, / And saved the sum of things for pay."
– A. E. Housman

Mercenaries 2
"Endless money forms the sinews of war."
– Cicero

Medieval Faires 1
"All merchants may enter or leave England unharmed and without fear, and may stay or travel within it, by land or water, for purposes of trade, free from all illegal exactions, in accordance with ancient and lawful customs."
– Magna Carta

Medieval Faires 2
"Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away."
– The Bible, Nahum 3:16

Guilds 1
"Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee."
– George Chapman

Guilds 2
"Her vessels sweep from East to West; / Her merchants are like kings; / While wonders in her walls attest / The power that commerce brings."
– Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Divine Right 1
"I am a monarch of God’s creation, and you reptiles of the earth dare not oppose me. I render an account of my government to none save God and Jesus Christ."
– Napoléon Bonaparte

Divine Right 2
"By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth."
– The Bible, Proverbs 8:15-16

Exploration 1
"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
– Francis Bacon

Exploration 2
"One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going."
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humanism 1
"Countless are the world’s wonders, but none more wonderful than man."
– Sophocles

Humanism 2
"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god!"
– Prince Hamlet from 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare

Diplomatic Service 1
"Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means."
– Zhou Enlai

Diplomatic Service 2
"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."
– Sigmund Freud

Reformed Church 1
"As Christians we are all kings and priests and therefore lords of all."
– Martin Luther

Reformed Church 2
"The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves."
– George Bernard Shaw

Mercantilism 1
"Better to pay for an article two dollars which remain in the country than only one which goes out."
– Philipp von Hörnigk

Mercantilism 2
"We must ever observe this rule: to sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs in value."
– Thomas Mun

The Enlightenment 1
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."
– Thomas Paine

The Enlightenment 2
"The only gospel we should read is the grand book of nature, written with God’s own hand, and stamped with his own seal."
– Voltaire

Colonialism 1
"The sun never sets on the British Empire."
– British proverb

Colonialism 2
"Take up the White Man’s burden-- / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The hate of those ye guard."
– Rudyard Kipling

Civil Engineering 1
"Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself."
– Larry Niven

Civil Engineering 2
"There is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer."
– Unknown British engineer

Nationalism 1
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
– Nathan Hale

Nationalism 2
"At our coming into the world, we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge."
– Montesquieu

Opera Ballet 1
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
– Ludwig van Beethoven

Opera Ballet 2
"If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness."
– W. H. Auden

Natural History 1
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative."
– H. G. Wells

Natural History 2
"The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental."
– Edward Abbey

Scorched Earth 1
"In strait places gar keep all store, / And byrnen ye plainland them before, / That they shall pass away in haist / What that they find na thing but waist."
– Anonymous 14th-century poem

Scorched Earth 2
"As soon as the flames had subsided which interrupted the march of Julian, he beheld the melancholy face of a smoking and naked desert."
– Edward Gibbon

Urbanization 1
"Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth, the cities rise again."
– Rudyard Kipling

Urbanization 2
"It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man’s skill that built the cities."
– Marcus Terentius Varro

Capitalism 1
"Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices."
– Alan Greenspan

Capitalism 2
"Pursuit of individual advantage is admirably connected with the with the universal good of the whole."
– David Ricardo

Conservation 1
"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread."
– Edward Abbey

Conservation 2
"Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from."
– Terry Tempest Williams

Mass Media 1
"Journalism is the first rough draft of history."
– Phil Graham

Mass Media 2
"The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper."
– Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Mobilization 1
"Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong."
– The Bible, Joel 3:10

Mobilization 2
"The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."
– Livy

Nuclear Program 1
"We were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs, and possessed of powers which were irresistible."
– Winston Churchill

Nuclear Program 2
"To the question, 'Is atomic energy a force for good or for evil?' I can only say, 'As mankind wills it.' "
– Leslie Groves

Ideology 1
"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."
– Thomas Paine

Ideology 2
"One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests."
– John Stuart Mill

Suffrage 1
"All government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."
– Jonathan Swift

Suffrage 2
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
– Abraham Lincoln

Totalitarianism 1
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever."
– O'Brien from '1984' by George Orwell

Totalitarianism 2
"Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
– Benito Mussolini

Class Struggle 1
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his work."
– 1936 Soviet Constitution

Class Struggle 2
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."
– The Communist Manifesto

Cold War 1
"The people of this world must unite or they will perish."
– J. Robert Oppenheimer

Cold War 2
"Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment."
– John F. Kennedy

Professional Sports 1
"Life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it."
– Benjamin Franklin

Professional Sports 2
"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence."
– George Will

Cultural Heritage 1
"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
– Edmund Burke

Cultural Heritage 2
"A land without ruins is a land without memories — a land without memories is a land without history."
– Abram Joseph Ryan

Rapid Deployment 1
"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."
– Sun Tzu

Rapid Deployment 2
"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."
– Niccolò Machiavelli

Space Race 1
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
– Stephen Hawking

Space Race 2
"The conquest of space is worth the risk of life. Our God-given curiosity will force us to go there ourselves because in the final analysis, only man can fully evaluate the Moon in terms understandable to other men."
– Gus Grissom

Globalization 1
"The human family now exists under conditions of a global village. We live in a single constricted space resonant with tribal drums."
– Marshall McLuhan

Globalization 2
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
– Socrates

Social Media 1
"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."
– Mark Zuckerberg

Social Media 2
"New media are new languages, their grammar and syntax yet unknown."
– Marshall McLuhan

Future Civic 1
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
– L. P. Hartley

Future Civic 2
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
– Marcus Aurelius


Wonders

Pyramids
"Homage to you, Osiris, Lord of eternity, King of the gods, whose names are manifold, whose forms are holy, you being of hidden form in the temples, whose Ka is holy."
– Book of the Dead

Petra
"It seems no work of Man’s creative hand, / by labour wrought as wavering fancy planned; / But from the rock as if by magic grown, / eternal, silent, beautiful, alone!"
– John Burgon

Mont St Michel
"And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book."
– The Bible, Daniel 12:1

Chichen Itza
"Ahau was the katun when the four divisions were called. The four divisions of the nation, they were called, when they descended. They became lords when they descended upon Chichen Itza. The Itza were they then called."
– The Books of Chilam Balam

Stonehenge
"When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to affect it, the idea is grand. Stonehenge, neither for disposition nor ornament, has anything admirable; but those huge rude masses of stone, set on end, and piled each on other, turn the mind on the immense force necessary for such a work."
– Edmund Burke

Oracle
"I count the grains of sand on the beach and measure the sea; I understand the speech of the dumb and hear the voiceless."
– Oracle of Delphi

Terracotta Army
"He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks."
– Sun Tzu

Alhambra
"Perhaps there never was a monument more characteristic of an age and people than the Alhambra; a rugged fortress without, a voluptuous palace within; war frowning from its battlements; poetry breathing throughout the fairy architecture of its halls."
– Washington Irving

Cristo Redentor
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."
– The Bible, Philippians 4:8

Potala Palace
"Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail."
– John Donne

Hanging Gardens
"One is nearer God’s heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth."
– Dorothy Frances Gurney

Forbidden City
"I constantly remind myself that the world is so vast and state affairs so important that I cannot succumb to laziness and complacency for even a moment. Once one has succumbed to laziness and complacency, everything will become stagnant."
– The Yongle Emperor

Hermitage
"In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of time."
– Orhan Pamuk

Eiffel Tower
"The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall."
– Gustave Eiffel

Colossus
"To you, O Sun, the people of Dorian Rhodes set up this bronze statue reaching to Olympus, when they had pacified the waves of war and crowned their city with the spoils taken from the enemy."
– Anthologia Graeca

Great Lighthouse
"To Neptune, ruler of the seas profound, / Whose liquid arms the mighty globe surround, / They pour forth vows, their embassy to bless, / And calm the rage of stern Æacides."
– Homer

Sydney Opera House
"Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music."
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great Zimbabwe
"Let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, 'See! This our fathers did for us.' "
– John Ruskin

Big Ben
"Time is the wisest counselor of all."
– Pericles

Colosseum
"I kneel, an altered and an humble man, amid thy shadows, and so drink within my very soul thy grandeur, gloom, and glory!"
– Edgar Allan Poe

Estadio Do Maracana
"I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life."
– Ben Roethlisberger

Venetian Arsenal
"As in the arsenal of the Venetians boils the clammy pitch, to caulk their damaged ships, in winter when they cannot navigate; and, instead thereof, one build his ship anew, one plugs the ribs of that which hath hade many voyages."
– Dante Alighieri

Ruhr Valley
"Here lies the heart of German industrial power, the cauldron of wars."
– Henry Morgenthau Jr.

Mahabodhi Temple
"If a man can control his mind he can find the way to enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."
– Gautama Buddha

Hagia Sophia
"We knew not whether we were in heaven or on earth, for surely there is no such splendor or beauty anywhere on earth. We cannot describe it to you; we only know that God dwells there among men and that their service surpasses the worship of all other places."
– Envoys of Vladimir the Great

Great Library
"A great library contains the diary of the human race."
– George Dawson

Oxford University
"It is well that there are palaces of peace / And discipline and dreaming and desire, / Lest we forget our heritage and cease / The Spirit’s work — to hunger and aspire."
– C. S. Lewis

Bolshoi Theater
"Dancing and architecture are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite."
– Havelock Ellis

Broadway
"The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life."
– Oscar Wilde

Huey Teocalli
"I, the god, have returned again, I have turned again to the place of abundance of blood-sacrifices; there when the day grows old, I am beheld as a god."
– Hymn of Tlaloc

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
"Thereon are the perfect semblances of man and horse, carved in the fairest marble; scarcely may a temple be found to match it."
– Mausolus from 'Dialogues of the Dead' by Lucian of Samosata

Angkor Wat
"Perhaps nowhere else in the world has such an imposing mass of stone been arranged with more sense of art and science."
– Francis Garnier

Apadana
"By the grace of Ahuramazda, much that had been ordered by king Darius, my father, was well. It was also by the grace of Ahuramazda that I completed these works and made it excellent."
– Xerxes I

Jebel Barkal
"Hail to thee, Amun-Ra, Lord of the thrones of the earth, the oldest existence, ancient of heaven, support of all things; Chief of the gods, lord of truth; father of the gods, maker of men and beasts and herbs; maker of all things above and below."
– Hymn to Amun-Ra