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GoogleCiv 2.0.0 coming...
Finally I've set about polling for the best speeches of the last two Civilization games. This poll is a bit big as it encompasses the five monolouges and ten wonder quotes that make up the Ancient Era according to Civilization V. The two most favored speeches will be added to the playlist;
the Babylonian monolouge - 'Emerging Phoenix-Like'
the Egyptian monologue - 'Who Causes the Sun to Rise and the Nile to Flow'
the Greek monologue - 'the Very Foundations of Western Civilization'
the Persian monologue - 'In the Morning of the World'
the Wonders of the Anicent World monologue - 'Grand Construction and Transendant Architecture'
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the Colossus - 'Why man; he doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus; and we petty men walk under his huge legs, and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves.' - William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
the Great Library - 'Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and all that without delusion or imposture are preserved and reposed.' - Sir Francis Bacon
the Great Lighthouse - 'They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.' - the Bible, Psalms 107:23-24
the Hanging Gardens - 'I think that if ever a mortal would hear the word of God it would be at the garden in the cool of the day.' - F. Frankfort Moore
Mausolem of Halicarnassus - 'The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not only given on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other men's lives.' - Pericles
the Oracle - 'The ancient Oracle said to me that I was wisest of all the Greeks. It is because i alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.' - Socrates
the Pyramids - 'O, let not the pains of death which come upon thee enter my body. I am the god Tem, and I am in the far most part of the sky, and the power which protecth me is that which is with all the gods forever.' - the Book of the Dead, translated by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Bugde
Statue of Zeus - 'He spoke, the son of Kronos, and nodded his head with the dark brows, and the immortally anointed hair of the god swept from his divine head, and all Olympos was shaken.' - the Iliad
Stonehenge - 'Time crumbles things; everything grows old and is forgotten under the power of time.' - Aristotle
Temple of Artemis - 'It is not so much for its beuaty that forests lay a claim upon men's hearts, as for the subtle something, that quality of air, that emanation of old tress, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.' - Robert Louis Stevenson
the Babylonian monolouge - 'Emerging Phoenix-Like'
the Egyptian monologue - 'Who Causes the Sun to Rise and the Nile to Flow'
the Greek monologue - 'the Very Foundations of Western Civilization'
the Persian monologue - 'In the Morning of the World'
the Wonders of the Anicent World monologue - 'Grand Construction and Transendant Architecture'
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the Colossus - 'Why man; he doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus; and we petty men walk under his huge legs, and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves.' - William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
the Great Library - 'Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and all that without delusion or imposture are preserved and reposed.' - Sir Francis Bacon
the Great Lighthouse - 'They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.' - the Bible, Psalms 107:23-24
the Hanging Gardens - 'I think that if ever a mortal would hear the word of God it would be at the garden in the cool of the day.' - F. Frankfort Moore
Mausolem of Halicarnassus - 'The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not only given on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other men's lives.' - Pericles
the Oracle - 'The ancient Oracle said to me that I was wisest of all the Greeks. It is because i alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.' - Socrates
the Pyramids - 'O, let not the pains of death which come upon thee enter my body. I am the god Tem, and I am in the far most part of the sky, and the power which protecth me is that which is with all the gods forever.' - the Book of the Dead, translated by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Bugde
Statue of Zeus - 'He spoke, the son of Kronos, and nodded his head with the dark brows, and the immortally anointed hair of the god swept from his divine head, and all Olympos was shaken.' - the Iliad
Stonehenge - 'Time crumbles things; everything grows old and is forgotten under the power of time.' - Aristotle
Temple of Artemis - 'It is not so much for its beuaty that forests lay a claim upon men's hearts, as for the subtle something, that quality of air, that emanation of old tress, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.' - Robert Louis Stevenson
