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The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. … The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.
lucio russo— "The Erasure of Ancient Science" in The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn (2004)
That is how I would have acted before my accident, but now my personal history had become unimportant. It had stopped being history and was once more becoming a legend, a search, an adventure, a journey into and away from myself. I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.
paulo coelho— p. 272 (The Zahir (2005))
The name Shillong is derived from a peak of the same name. According to one legend the name came from a young handsome boy called ‘Shyllong’ who was born under mysterious conditions to a virgin mother .
— The Indian Backpacker, in Shillong : Scotland of the East, The Indian Backpacker.
legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
tim berners-lee— "The Guardian profile : Tim Berners-Lee"(12 August 2005)
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
Bernard Malamud— 1979 Dubin's Lives.
As Michael read the Gaelic scroll It seemed the story of the soul; And those who wrought, lest there should fail From earth the legend of the Gael, Seemed warriors of Eternal Mind Still holding in a world gone blind, From which belief and hope had gone, The lovely magic of its dawn.
— 1922 The Interpreters,'Michael'.
The legend of Felix is ended, the toiling of Felix is done;The Master has paid him his wages, the goal of his journey is won;He rests, but he never is idle; a thousand years pass like a day,In the glad surprise of Paradise where work is sweeter than play.
henry van dyke— The Toiling of Felix, Pt. III, st. 1 (1898).
There is no doubt about Martin Luther's marriage, but the rumour about his wife's early confinement is false; she is said however to be pregnant now. If there is truth in the popular legend, that Antichrist will be born from a monk and a nun (which is the story these people keep putting about), how many thousands of Antichrists the world must have already!
— Responding to rumours prompted by the marriage of Martin Luther, in a letter to François Dubois (13 March 1526), as translated in The Correspondence of Erasmus : Letters 1658 to 1801, January 1526-March 1527 (1974) edited by Charles Garfield Nauert and Alexander Dalzell, p. 79
— Paraphrased variant: They say that the Antichrist will be born of a monk and a nun. If so, there must already be thousands of Antichrists.
You can call it a miracle or a legend or whatever you want to. I just know that on that day, Brett Favre was larger than life.
brett favre— Alabama coach Gene Stallings
— Traina, Jimmy (5 October 2002). Brett Favre Timeline. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved on 2007-02-08.
Let him leave his home town and try to invade the United States and beat Bernard Hopkins, a great champion, a legend.
bernard hopkins— On Joe Calzaghe, as quoted in "Hopkins turns up heat on Calzaghe"at BBC News (14 November 2007)
The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.
julian jaynes— Book II, Chapter 3, p. 213 ( See also: The Exodus and Minoan eruption)
The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. …The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.
lucio russo— The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn, 11.10, "The Erasure of Ancient Science" (2004, pp. 390–391)
Michael has been the author of a unique chapter in the history of Formula 1 and of Ferrari in particular. It has yet to reach its conclusion and what he has achieved extends over and above the results obtained. He is an exceptional man and will become a legend as a driver.
Michael Schumacher— Jean Todt, Ferrari team boss, cited in: Planet-F1 (2006) "Todt and Montezemolo hail 'legend' Schumi". on Planet-F1. September 12, 2006 (no longer online)
On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend.
Thucydides— Book I, 21-[1]
I would like to show the German people a film with the title 'Germany at the end of the war.' Then perhaps people would be alarmed and would realize where we are heading. People would agree with me that the superior warlord (Hitler) must disappear. But since we cannot show this movie people will create the legend of the 'stab in the back' whenever we will act against Hitler.
henning von tresckow— December 1941. Bodo Scheurig, Henning von Tresckow, ein Preusse gegen Hitler, p135-6
Take new values : Leave behind a legend to be followed by those who follow you. Be a yogi — don't be an ordinary person.
harbhajan singh yogi— Remark (9 January 1978), as quoted in Transitions to a Heart Centered World : Through the Kundalini Yoga and Meditations of Yogi Bhajan (1988) by Guru Rattana and Ann M. Maxwellm, p. 107
By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.
theodor adorno— p. 6 (Wozu noch Philosophie? [Why still philosophy] (1963))
Those dying here, the lonely Forgotten by the world, Our tongue becomes for them The language of an ancient planet. Until, when all is legend And many years have passed, On a great Campo di Fiori Rage will kindle at a poet's word.
czesław miłosz— "Campo dei Fiori" (1943), trans. Louis Iribarne and David Brooks
He defended this land like a lion and he taught its children to swing a scythe. He was a military legend in his lifetime and then turned his gaze to the day Israel would dwell in safety.
ariel sharon— Shimon Peres
Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within – for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.
suetonius— Gore Vidal On Our Own Now, (London, 1976), p. 72.
Sister Simplicitie! Sing, sing a song to me, Sing me to sleep! Some legend low and long, Slow as the summer song Of the dull Deep.
— Sidney Dobell, A Sleep Song.
The Portuguese from their old fort city in Mylapore built the legend of San Thome de Meliyapor and a strong Roman Catholic presence into the city.
— S. Muthiah, in p.47 (Diaspora of the Gods : Modern Hindu Temples in an Urban Middle-Class World)
In Pataliputra, India , which is now the city of Patna, legend also says that the Emerald Buddha was created in Patna (then Pataliputra) by Agrasena in 43 BCE...in Northern Thailand, lightning struck a pagoda in a temple in Chiang Rai, after which something became visible under the stucco . The Emerald Buddha was dug out and the people thought the figurine was made from emerald , hence its current name...The Buddha 's clothing are changed by the King of Thailand, to celebrate the changing of seasons .
— Ryan Fyfe , in The Emerald Buddha, ESL Teachers Board.
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to steadier and steadier steps, till that legend of the rough places fulfills itself at last, "per aspera ad astra, over steep ways to the stars.
— Bishop W. C. Doane, p. 588. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within – for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.
— Gore Vidal On Our Own Now, (London, 1976), p. 72.
Chapel of Saint Sebastian, has crucifix first brought to Panaji in 1812 from Old Goa after the Inquisition was suppressed. It is considered an unusual piece since Christ ’s eyes are open – rather than shut as is customary - and legend has it that this was done to instill fear in the hearts of those being brought before the dreaded Inquisitors.
Amy Karafin— Anirban Mahapatra, in “South India”, p.195
Land of religions, cradle of human race, birthplace of human speech, grandmother of legend, great grandmother of tradition. The land that all men desire to see and having seen once even by a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of the rest of the globe combined.
— Mark Twain, Through Indian Eyes - Page 113.
