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“Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.”

Years Believe Earth Half Century Thousand Six Years Ago Insight Neighbor Despite Cosmos Thousand Years Antiquity Glue Sumerians

Book:Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are to be trusted, nearly 230 million Americans believe that a book showing neither unity of style nor internal consistency was authored by an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent deity.”

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“In Celtic Ireland the name Leo was Lugh, another solar hero and mystic. In Wales he was Llew, to the Romans Lugus, to the Sumerians Lughal. Its not the same dude on walkabout, it's the Astrological sign of Leo. In the Christian iconography we have one of the Evangelists represented by a Lion. In the Nativity scenes we see 4 animals around the cradle of the Son/Sun king. One of these is also a Lion. Christians probably believe that there was one in the area and just happened to wander into the inn to take a peek at sleeping Jesus. Good thing it wasn't very hungry.”

“Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.”

Men Property Western Vices Driving Lust Chiefs Characteristics Dread Triads Sumerians

Author:Antonio Gramsci

“The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.”

May Moving Cases Lessons Right Now Remains Track China Hopefully Cycles Civilisation Sumerians

Author:Elon Musk

“Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.”

World Years Mind Firsts Reason Eye Age Lasts Science Intellectual Years Ago Visible Magician Inheritance Newton Great Minds Age Of Reason Sumerians

Book:The Essential Keynes

Source: The Essential Keynes

“We are coming up on the Sumerian apokalypsi–. (Artemis) I don’t think they use that word. (Kat) Who cares what word they use? End of the world is end of the world regardless of whatever term you use for it! (Artemis)”

Thinking World Ends Use Care Term Who Cares End Of The World Artemis Sumerians

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“My son has few friends and even fewer who know him for what he is. So long as you protect him, you live. Sumerian or not. But if you prove false in anything you’ve said here today, I will bring a wrath down on you so sever that you will spend eternity trying to dig out your own brains to alleviate the pain of it. (Apollymi)”

Ifs Knows Trying Long Said Today Pain Brain Son Protect Prove Eternity My Son Fewer Wrath Alleviate Few Friends Sumerians

Book:Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“We’re looking for anything to do with the Rod of Time. (Sin) Rod of Time, Forsaken Moon, Tablet of Destiny…you Sumerians really liked your hokey terms, huh? (Kat) They didn’t exactly ask my opinion before they named them. (Sin) Good, ‘cause my estimation of your intellect would be seriously scarred if they had. (Kat)”

Ifs Would Be Asks Causes Term Sin Opinion Destiny Moon Intellect Forsaken Tablets Estimation Good Causes Sumerians

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“You have to remember that what we’re dealing with here are Sumerian gallu demons. The next to the lowest form of demon on the demon food chain. They’re simple demons really. Lowly. You know…morons. (Jaden)”

Knows Remember Form Next Simple Chains Demon Lowest Moron Food Chain Sumerians

Book:Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.”

Years Bigs Religion Millions Beer Bangs Sumerians

Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)”

Knows Fear Atheism Advantage Rage Explanation Flood Sumerians

Book:The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays

Source: The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays

“Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.”

People Firsts Values Change Wealth Property Notion Lawyer Officials Fewer Wet Grain Ownership Clay Public Officials Sumerians Cuneiform

Author:John Perry Barlow

“The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the Orient with its cyclical time and Christianity with its linear history. And what is modem about the modem mind, one may ask, if Hegel, Comte, or Marx, in order to create an image of history that will support their ideological imperialism, still use the same techniques for distorting the reality of history as their Sumerian predecessors?”

“Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.”

Firsts Reason Age Lasts Science Universe Mystery Magician Newton Age Of Reason Sumerians

Book:The Essential Keynes

Source: The Essential Keynes