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• Eureka! -- Archimede
• Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved
  and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this....
• Lamachus chid a captain for a fault; and when he had said he would do so no more, "Sir," said he, "in war there is no room for a second miscarriage.
  Said one to Iphicrates, "What are ye afraid of?" "Of all speeches," said he, "none is so dishonourable for a general as 'I should not have thought of it....
• The first Great Steward, Parrafin the Climber, was employed in King Chloroplast's kitchen as second scullery boy when the old King met a tragic death.
  He apparently fell backward by accident on a dozen salad forks....
• The first Great Steward, Parrafin the Climber, was employed in King Chloroplast's kitchen as second scullery boy when the old King met a tragic death.
  He apparently fell backward by accident on a dozen salad forks....
• He said that in his whole life he most repented of three thing
  one was that he had trusted a secret to a woman; another, that he went by water when he might have gone by land...
• There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes.
  For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink...
• When Alexander asked Diogenes whether he wanted anything, "Yes," said he, "I would have you stand from between me and the sun.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Alexande...