“The manifold ways in which they [the victims of 9/11] attached to life testified to the Quranic injunction that the taking of a single life destroys a universe. Al-Qaeda had aimed its attacks at America, but it struck all of humanity.”
― The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
― The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
“The Romans were better than the Greeks at fighting. They were better than the Greeks at law, which they used to run their empire. They were better than the Greeks at engineering, which was useful both for fighting and running an empire. But in everything else they acknowledged that the Greeks were superior and slavishly copied them.”
― The Shortest History of Europe
― The Shortest History of Europe
“If the assassination of Julius Caesar became a model for the effective removal of a tyrant, it was also a powerful reminder that getting rid of a tyrant did not necessarily dispose of tyranny.”
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
“Father Mychal Judge, chaplain, FDNY: Good days. And bad days. Up days. Down days. Sad days. Happy days. But never a boring day on this job. You do what God has called you to do. You show up. You put one foot in front of another. You get on the rig and you go out and you do the job. Which is a mystery. And a surprise. You have no idea when you get on that rig. No matter how big the call. No matter how small. You have no idea what God is calling you to. But he needs you. He needs me. He needs all of us.”
― The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
― The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
“If we survive until the morning, we’ll live forever.”
― Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
― Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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