Who watches the watchmen?
Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
quoted as the epigraph of the Tower Commission Report, 1987
1. At midnight, all the agents and superhuman crew, go out and round up everyone who knows more than they do. - Bob Dylan
2. And I’m up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians. - Elvis Costello
3. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? Genesis 18:25
4. The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known. I should have become a watchmaker. - Albert Einstein
5. Tyger, Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand in eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? - William Blake
6. Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
7. I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. Job 30:29-30
8. On Hallowe’en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb. Hallowe’en, Eleanor Farjeon
9. As far as one can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
10. Outside in the distance a wild cat did growl, two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl. - Bob Dylan
11. My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! - Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley
12. It would be a stronger world, a stronger loving world, to die in. - John Cale
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