"The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad."

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Source : "Johannes Gutenberg printed playing cards the same year as his famous Bible (1440). The cards from Gutenberg's press were Tarot cards, from which the modern deck is derived. The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

Richard Arnold Epstein

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“Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.”

Source : Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.227, Courier Corporation
“High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.”
“I have a closet full of blazers and more striped shirts than any human could possibly wear. Somehow I think that I don't have striped shirts, and then I look at my closet and go, 'Oh, I have ten.' But then you always end up with your favourite striped shirt of the moment, and you don't end up wearing any of the other ones.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.”
“Do not be content with an imaginary god.”
“Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it... We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs.”

Source : TIME Magazine, July 24, 2006.
“I think I was born stubborn, that's all,”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.”

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