Word: ciceros
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...present, foundations are drawn to big names, and big differences in reputation stand to create a widening gap between "haves and have-nots," says Theodore J. Cicero, vice chancellor for research at Washington University...
Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Dante, Copernicus, Shakespeare, Descartes, Newton, Rousseau, Kant, Darwin, Dickens, Tolstoy and Nietzsche...
...Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature R.J. Tarrant, commenting on Lowell Lecture Hall after delivering in Latin Cicero's famous speech from 63 B.C.E. denouncing Catiline for plotting against the government in Literature and Arts C-61: "The Rome of Augustus...
...FIRST BOND OF SOCIETY IS MARRIAGE. --Cicero, De Officiis...
...Cicero's statement reflects what is known as the natural-law argument against same-sex unions. This is the idea that marriage evolved in society over thousands of years as a childbearing union between a man and a woman, and that there is a profound wisdom in the tradition that should not be lightly discarded. Virtuecrat William J. Bennett contends that same-sex marriages "would do significant long-term social damage" to "society's most important institution." And that stretching the definition of marriage would jeopardize an already shaky institution...