"The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list."

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Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has proved groundless. In fact, in the face of a general regression in the level of civilization, it's never the best works that will be saved through an automatic process of natural selection.

— Lucio Russo