If you were an ancient barbarian, I bet a real embarrassing thing would be if you were sacking Rome and your cape got caught on something and you couldn't get it unhooked, and you had to ask another barbarian to unhook it for you.
Jack Handey in Deep Thoughts
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History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.
quote by Arnold Toynbee
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On A Change Of Masters At A Great Public School
WHERE are those honours, Ida! once yow own,
When Probus fill'd your magisterial throne?
As ancient Rome, fast falling to disgrace,
Hail'd a barbarian in her Cæsar's place,
So you, degenerate, share as hard a fate,
And seat Pomposus where your Probus sate.
Of narrow brain, yet of a narrower soul,
Pomposus holds you in his harsh control;
Pomposus, by no social virtue sway'd,
With florid jargon, and with vain parade;
With noisy nonsense, and new-fangled rules,
Such as were ne'er before enforced in schools
Mistaking pedantry for learning's laws,
He governs, sanction'd but by self applause;
With him the same dire fate attending Rome,
Ill-fated Ida! soon must stamp your doom;
Like her o'erthrown, for ever lost to fame,
No trace of science left you, but the name.
July 1805.
A.M. Oversight
If I were God
and in passing, caught sight
of you, Manhattan,
on such a summer's day morning,
sparkling
divvying the waters
of the mighty Hudson like the rock you are,
in twain (in what else?) . If I...
...were God,
who is quite old-
bent over and not a little crotchety;
who long ago stopped having sex in any form
and who has only one child...and...
caught sight of you, Manhattan,
monkey's fist of glimmers and glares,
rayons and fountains
and finials of blinding light;
and your miles of highways
on which numberless cars
idle, gleam and fume;
and your banks of leaves, shimmering,
though only ginkos
though only locusts
and, not, say, the darkly-glowering, cloud-like trees of Rome,
looking down and out over all, I would say,
'nice going, Manhattan, even if only the handiwork of men,
you're looking good this morning.
But, you, little man, little barbarian, come back-
when you polished the Chrysler building top last,
see-you missed a spot.'
poem by Morgan Michaels
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If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that.
quote by Andre Braugher
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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
quote by William Hazlitt
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Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
quote by Leonard Woolf
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
quote by Sinclair Lewis
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As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
quote by Jack Abramoff
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The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
How Safe the World Could Be!
Had man remained as barbarian
Without civilization and family
Without science and discovery
And sans gods how safe the world could have been be!
(02.07.2011)
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
quote by William Gilmore Simms
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Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
George Bernard Shaw in Ceasar and Cleopatra
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Conan the Barbarian 3D [trailer 2]
Rose McGowan, Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Leo Howard, Katarzyna Wolejnio
from Conan the Barbarian 3D (2011)
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Conan the Barbarian 3D
Rose McGowan, Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Leo Howard, Katarzyna Wolejnio
from Conan the Barbarian 3D (2011)
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The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
quote by Breyten Breytenbach
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The Real Thing
La la la
Love is the real thing
You know
Love is the real thing
La la la la
La love
La la la
Love is the real thing
You know
Love is the real thing
La la la la
She is waiting
In the office
For the bell to go
She is thinking
Of their meeting
Just a month ago
Now shes running
Through the people
Everyone so slow
Now he holds her
And he loves her
He tells her so and
La la la
Love is the real thing
You know
Love is the real thing
La la la la
La love
La la la
Love is the real thing
You know
Love is the real thing
La la la la
By the nightfall
They have driven
From the world they know
Shes so happy
Theyre together
And their love will grow
And when you feel your chance has come
Whos going to throw it all away
And if theres someone left behind
You have to say that
La la la
Love is the real thing
You know
Love is the real thing
La la la la
La love
La la la
Love is the real thing
You know
Love is the real thing
La la la la
La la la
Love is the real thing
You know
Love is the real thing
La la la la
La love
La la la
Love is the real thing
You know
Love is the real thing
La la la la
song performed by by Human League
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End Of Another Great Cycle
26,000 years gone by, new cycle nears
As, Piscean Age moves into Aquarian
Confused men express thru war ‘n fear
Reject peace, preferring acts barbarian
ROTMS
poem by Ray Lucero
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Barbarian
First theres nothing
Takes a long time
Piece by piece
It comes together
He makes drawings
Turns them into real things
Simple paintings
Of caves long ago
Just like a game
Always a winner
But he works hard
Surprise to himself
A lot of people
Bent on the future
Set up the countries
Closing all the doors
Now he thinks big
Thinks hes come a long way
But we all know
Long long way to go
Barbarian
Hes lonely
Hes the only one
song performed by by INXS
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The Real Thing
A mongoose can smile at a cobra
But that cobra will always be a snake
Diamante can shine like a diamond
But you know, like I know
That rock will be fake
Its the real thing
The real thing
Nothing but the real thing
Its real
You can xerox the mona lisa
Deadpan da vinci in every detail
Might beat customs on a home-made visa
But false papers
Only gets you in jail
Its the real thing
The real thing
Nothing but the real thing
Its real
Life wears a smile on its face
But it comes with a sting in its tail
Make believe fables have their place
But only a fool. only a fool
Believes fairy tales
I heard all the lies that they tell ya
phone me baby. the cheques in the mail
Well as fantasy. it may please ya
As the real thing
It does nothing but fail
Its the real thing
The real thing
Nothing but the real thing
Its real
Its the real thing
The real thing
Nothing but the real thing
Its real
song performed by by Abc
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If you're an archaeologist, I bet it's real embarrassing to put together a skull from a bunch of ancient bone fragments, but then it turns out it's not a skull but just an old dried-out potato.
Jack Handey in Deep Thoughts
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