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...invaluable community service. Plus, it’s a great way to meet women and not have sex with them. Most importantly, the priesthood is a pretty stable industry. Recessions, corporations and governments come and go, but religion is here to stay. As the wise poet Horatius Lucretius Quintus wrote, “Amice, semper populi sacerdotum egent,” which translates, “Dude, people always need priests...
...Said Quintus Anderson, a businessman from Jamestown, N.Y.: "This conference has convinced a lot of us of the need for a strong defense, which is not the conclusion we expected to come to." Yet even the hard-line statements of Chervov and Petrovsky left room for a U.S. official in Riga to say, "If you listen closely, you can still hear them saying they are extremely eager to restrict SDI and they may be willing to pay a significant price in arms control...
...today." That the elegant earl never got around to marrying his son's mother and had a bad habit of keeping worthies like Dr. Johnson cooling their heels for hours in an anteroom attests to the fact that even the most well-intentioned men have been postponers ever. Quintus Fabius Maximus, one of the great Roman generals, was dubbed "Cunctator " (Delayer) for putting off battle until the last possible vinum break. Moses pleaded a speech defect to rationalize his reluctance to deliver Jehovah's edicts to Pharaoh. Hamlet, of course, raised procrastination to an art form...
...useless has it proved to be, trying to give Omar a black eye? He is an educated man of the world, somewhat like Quintus Horatius Flaccus, good company, urbane, witty, tolerant... If the noble vintage of his petry ever made adipsomaniac or his indulgent smile ever broke up a marriage, that news has yet to come in over the teletype...
...John Paul Jones ("boldness, not caution, wins") to Sherman and Patton. Yet in every war they have fought, Americans have also shown great patience, which of course is a form of courage. For all their dash, U.S. generals appreciate slow, painstaking preparation and careful strategy in the tradition of Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator ("The Delayer"). After Pearl Harbor, when Admiral Chester Nimitz was rebuilding the US. Navy, he invariably fended off action-hungry critics with the Hawaiian phrase Hoomana wa nui (Be patient...