Drae Wright

“By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought.”
― Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

“History is subject to geology.”
― Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History

“Like the Jews before them, the Irish enshrined literacy as their central religious act.”
― Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

“Greek philosophers knew then that governments could warp men, just as men can warp governments. "People are the same everywhere, only governments try to make them different." Who was it who had said that? It could have been Socrates, but it wasn't. We recalled the engineering student in northern Iraq who had.”
― McGregor Smith Jr., Thank you, Marco Polo: The Story of the First Around-the-World Trailer Caravan