John Wooden built a pyramid too...his famous Pyramid of Success...and his success in basketball gives it credence, along with all his supporters that have found it useful...
I..I just thought to look it up, thinking on pyramids as I have been...you know, no stone unturned, and at wiki's take there's a few Wooden quotes...Wooden was famous for quotable sayings...and one I'd just seen in the posting studies...
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Be quick, but don't hurry
John Wooden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wooden
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Oh!...have to pause a sec...Maya my dog is barking...she never barks!...gotta go see what's up...brb...don't know what...keep her on the porch awhile...
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The dolphin and anchor is a famous historic symbol. Titus, Emperor of Rome, took the device of a dolphin twisted round an anchor, to imply, like the emblem of Augustus, the medium between haste and slowness, the anchor being the symbol of delay
The Dolphin of Legend and of Heraldry
http://www.sacred-texts.com/lcr/fsca/fsca68.htm
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In ancient times, Hasten Slowly was on the lintel of the Temple at Delphi, along with the enigmatic letter E....wait..."Know Thyself" was that motto, maxim...
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"Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust"
Woody Hayes
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A couple days back, John Boehner, the Speaker of the House, in an interview regarding why he's picking up, used that quote, by way of explaining...well...let me get the conversation...or a story about the conversation...I think it was cnn's interview...CBS actually...
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Boehner described his incremental legislative style as “the Woody Hayes school of football: three years and a cloud of dust, three yards and a cloud of dust.” - See more at: http://www.unionleader.com/Boehner_warns_fellow_Republicans_with_Beware_false_prophets_advice_#sthash.znze6gmc.dpuf
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one good quote deserves another, and Boehner threw another one out...which grabbed headlines...
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"The Bible says beware of false prophets. And there are people out there, you know, spreading noise about how much can get done.
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that would be in Jeremiah, and from Jesus in the New Testament...
a Brazilian billionaire has gone and built an oversize replica of the Second Temple at Jerusalem...
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The majority of the temple space is devoted to the main sanctuary. The sanctuary is lined with pews imported from Spain, which face the main altar.[7] The sanctuary has a conveyor belt system designed to carry tithes and offerings from the altar directly into a safe room.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Solomon_(UCKG)
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Seems a bit phony, but I used to live and work in apartment complex across from the Crystal Cathedral, a drive in glass church, and a bit over the top, but the hymns being sung on Sunday were nice, I thought, while I was fixing this or that...
In ancient times, false prophets could meet a grim fate...
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Whenever the Scythian king falls sick, he sends for the three soothsayers of most renown at the time, who come and make trial of their art in the mode above described. Generally they say that the king is ill because such or such a person, mentioning his name, has sworn falsely by the royal hearth. This is the usual oath among the Scythians, when they wish to swear with very great solemnity. Then the man accused of having foresworn himself is arrested and brought before the king. The soothsayers tell him that by their art it is clear he has sworn a false oath by the royal hearth, and so caused the illness of the king- he denies the charge, protests that he has sworn no false oath, and loudly complains of the wrong done to him. Upon this the king sends for six new soothsayers, who try the matter by soothsaying. If they too find the man guilty of the offence, straightway he is beheaded by those who first accused him, and his goods are parted among them: if, on the contrary, they acquit him, other soothsayers, and again others, are sent for, to try the case. Should the greater number decide in favour of the man's innocence, then they who first accused him forfeit their lives.
The mode of their execution is the following: a waggon is loaded with brushwood, and oxen are harnessed to it; the soothsayers, with their feet tied together, their hands bound behind their backs, and their mouths gagged, are thrust into the midst of the brushwood; finally the wood is set alight, and the oxen, being startled, are made to rush off with the waggon. It often happens that the oxen and the soothsayers are both consumed together, but sometimes the pole of the waggon is burnt through, and the oxen escape with a scorching. Diviners- lying diviners, they call them- are burnt in the way described, for other causes besides the one here spoken of. When the king puts one of them to death, he takes care not to let any of his sons survive: all the male offspring are slain with the father, only the females being allowed to live.
Herodotus
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The Scythians were a rough bunch...
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In what concerns war, their customs are the following. The Scythian soldier drinks the blood of the first man he overthrows in battle. Whatever number he slays, he cuts off all their heads, and carries them to the king; since he is thus entitled to a share of the booty, whereto he forfeits all claim if he does not produce a head. In order to strip the skull of its covering, he makes a cut round the head above the ears, and, laying hold of the scalp, shakes the skull out; then with the rib of an ox he scrapes the scalp clean of flesh, and softening it by rubbing between the hands, uses it thenceforth as a napkin. The Scyth is proud of these scalps, and hangs them from his bridle-rein; the greater the number of such napkins that a man can show, the more highly is he esteemed among them. Many make themselves cloaks, like the capotes of our peasants, by sewing a quantity of these scalps together. Others flay the right arms of their dead enemies, and make of the skin, which stripped off with the nails hanging to it, a covering for their quivers. Now the skin of a man is thick and glossy, and would in whiteness surpass almost all other hides. Some even flay the entire body of their enemy, and stretching it upon a frame carry it about with them wherever they ride. Such are the Scythian customs with respect to scalps and skins.
Herodotus
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The old Japanese, with their penchant for ceremony and ritual, dwelled much on the taking of enemy heads...
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The heads were then mounted on wooden plates with a central spike and prepared for later viewing. At the end of the battle, the "Head Viewing Ceremony" would be held amongst much pomp and circumstance,
quote of a facebook quote from this book, I gather...
"The Battle of Sekigahara, The Greatest Samurai Battle in History".
https://www.facebook.com/TheBattleOfSekigahara/posts/925902774140828
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Just in the news, has been the story of the Aztec skull rack found in Mexico City...
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The Aztecs had their share of tzompantli; one such example is in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. The skull rack here is a reminder of the Aztec's ongoing Flowery Wars.[13] Aztec warfare was primarily concerned with the capture of enemy warriors to serve as sacrifice, which is evident from the amount of warriors found sacrificed around Aztec structures.[14] The heart of the captive would be torn from his chest, and the corpse pushed down the stairs at the front of the temple. Attendants at the bottom were responsible for severing the limbs and head from the torso, and the warrior who brought the captive in would be given the limbs as property. Many scholars have determined that these limbs would be cannibalized
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzompantli
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one more...
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One of the greatest historians of the Roman Empire, Tacitus (56 AD – 120 AD) described the aftermath of the Roman’s famous defeat in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD.
“In the middle of the plain, bones lay either spread out or heaped, depending on whether they had fled or resisted. Next to the bones lay bits of spears and horse limbs, and there were also human heads nailed to trees. In the nearby groves were barbarian altars in which they had sacrificed tribunes and centurions of the first rank,” Tacitus wrote in his Annals.
An entire army sacrificed in a bog
http://sciencenordic.com/entire-army-sacrificed-bog
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Skull racks have their modern counterpart in the trophy rooms in the lobbies of stadiums and such...
Combat, and its rituals and ceremonies, gave rise to religion... war, with its comradery in arms, is the oldest faith...and it is everywhere found around the earth stretching all the way back in history...how it got to be that way, I don't know...
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"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."
Ishmael
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queequeg
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oh...and this...
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Goliath's skull found near Jerusalem?
http://www.hope-of-israel.org/p7.htm
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and this...
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A Pentagon spokesman said the US had faith the Afghan military would recapture the city.
Afghan force fight to retake Kunduz from Taliban
- 2 hours ago
- From the section Asia
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