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  • #61
    The first book of Euclid's Elements.

    "Gorin-no-sho", Miyamoto Musashi.

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    • #62
      The Ten Commandments
      http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/jorbis/JOrbisPlayer.php?path=John+Williams+The+Imperial+M arch+from+The+Empire+Strikes+Back.ogg&wiki=en

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      • #63
        The movie or the commandments?

        On the topic of bibles, the epic of Gilgamesh and the Babylonian creation story (forget the name)
        I refute it thus!
        "Destiny! Destiny! No escaping that for me!"

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        • #64
          The commandments.
          http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/jorbis/JOrbisPlayer.php?path=John+Williams+The+Imperial+M arch+from+The+Empire+Strikes+Back.ogg&wiki=en

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          • #65
            Originally posted by Asher
            Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
            Seconded.

            The Jargon File by the hackerdom.
            The Will to Power by Nietszsche.

            The Ten Commandments
            LOL. I think you need to say something original to change the world.
            Blog | Civ2 Scenario League | leo.petr at gmail.com

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            • #66
              Originally posted by Nevs23

              "Gorin-no-sho", Miyamoto Musashi.
              The book of five rings IIRC.

              Yes, it did help shape our world.

              ACK!
              Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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              • #67
                "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
                "We are living in the future, I'll tell you how I know, I read it in the paper, Fifteen years ago" - John Prine

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                • #68
                  Kama Sutra.

                  Btw, Urban Ranger, great thread.
                  RIAA sucks
                  The Optimistas
                  I'm a political cartoonist

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                  • #69
                    I don't believe the Rig Veda or Plato's Republic have been mentioned yet...
                    "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                    -Bokonon

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                    • #70
                      Plato's Republic has at least once. I think we are starting to repeat here.
                      "When you ride alone, you ride with Bin Ladin"-Bill Maher
                      "All capital is dripping with blood."-Karl Marx
                      "Of course, my response to your Marx quote is 'So?'"-Imran Siddiqui

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                      • #71
                        The works of Homer and Aristotle, if not previously mentioned.

                        Don Quixote by Cervantes

                        The works of Sophocles, Shakespeare, the Cantebury tales, Ovid.

                        Dante's Trilogy...

                        so many danm things to write...

                        The convention on human rights, though perhaps more in the future than today.
                        If you don't like reality, change it! me
                        "Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
                        "it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
                        "Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard Shaw

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                        • #72
                          Originally posted by St Leo


                          Seconded.

                          The Jargon File by the hackerdom.
                          The Will to Power by Nietszsche.



                          LOL. I think you need to say something original to change the world.
                          St. Leo, the two most influential things ever written are

                          1) the Ten Commandments; and
                          2) the Sermon on the Mount
                          http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/jorbis/JOrbisPlayer.php?path=John+Williams+The+Imperial+M arch+from+The+Empire+Strikes+Back.ogg&wiki=en

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                          • #73
                            No one's mentioned "The Tale Of Genji"? You'd figure that the world's first novel would warrant some attention...
                            KH FOR OWNER!
                            ASHER FOR CEO!!
                            GUYNEMER FOR OT MOD!!!

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