According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

According to the author of his biography in the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " Ambrose is interesting as typical of the new humanism which was growing up within the church.

According to the 2nd-century AD author Aelian, Aeschylus's younger brother Ameinias helped acquit his brother by showing the jury the stump of the hand that he lost at Salamis, where he was voted bravest warrior.

According to Tom Roberts, author of Alex Raymond: His Life and Art ( 2007 ), Capp delivered a stirring speech that was instrumental in changing those rules.

According to this theory, the anonymous author attributed these events to Daniel, as prophecies that were witnessed by this writer in the 2nd century BCE.

According to Jewish tradition the author was Samuel himself, but this idea is no longer regarded as tenable.

According to Jewish tradition the author of Kings was Jeremiah, whose life overlapped the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.

According to F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, " the widely observed unity of form and point of view ... and general resemblance in linguistic detail throughout the sequence are broadly suggestive of the work of a single author ," though other scholars see Lamentations as the work of multiple authors.

" According to Yevgenii Pasternak, however, author Konstantin Paustovsky refused to attend the meeting.

According to medical intuitive and author, Caroline Myss, who described chakras in her work Anatomy of the Spirit ( 1996 ), " Every thought and experience you've ever had in your life gets filtered through these chakra databases.

According to David Feldman, an author of trivia books, " The only reason why cheesemakers colour their product is because consumers seem to prefer it ".

According to The General History of the Pirates, published more than 25 years after the event by an author whose very identity remains in dispute, Kidd made peaceful overtures to Culliford: he " drank their Captain's health ," swearing that " he was in every respect their Brother ," and gave Culliford " a Present of an Anchor and some Guns.

According to author Steven Levy, IBM had discovered differential cryptanalysis on its own, and the NSA was apparently well aware of the technique.

According to Mara Leveritt, investigative journalist and author of Devil's Knot, " Police records were a mess.

According to Iranian author Nabipour I., in medieval Persia, Avicenna ( 980-1037 ) provided a detailed account on diabetes mellitus in The Canon of Medicine ( c. 1025 ), " describing the abnormal appetite and the collapse of sexual functions and he documented the sweet taste of diabetic urine.

According to Louis Diat, the creator of vichyssoise and the author of the classic Gourmet's Basic French Cookbook: " There is a story that explains why the most important basic brown sauce in French cuisine is called sauce espagnole, or Spanish sauce.

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

According to a writer cited by the author of the Easton's Bible Dictionary, this epistle

According to tradition and some early church writers, the author is Mark the Evangelist, the companion of the apostle Peter.

The Gospel According to Mark does not name its author.

According to Raymond E. Brown, it is not impossible that Luke was the author.

According to some, the author is unknown.

According to the majority view, the evidence against Luke's being the author is strong enough that the author is unknown.

According to Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms, this speculation first reached print in Brian Aldiss's 1973 history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree ; Aldiss, in turn, claimed to have gotten the information from Leon Stover.

According to tradition, Brian Boru, ' High King ' of Ireland ( d. at the Battle of Clontarf, 1014 CE ) played the harp, as did many of the gentry in the country during the period of the Gaelic Lordship of Ireland ( ended c. 1607 CE with the " Flight of the Earls " following the Elizabethan Wars ).

It is reflected in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ, in José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Monty Python's The Life Of Brian, Jean-Claude La Marre's Color of the Cross and Hal Hartley's The Book of Life.

According to a 20-page search warrant affidavit signed by IRS Special Agent Jeff Novitzky, Grimsley told investigators he obtained amphetamines, anabolic steroids and human growth hormone from someone recommended to him by former Yankees trainer Brian McNamee.

According to Scorsese it was Brian De Palma who introduced him to Schrader.

According to Stuart Walton and Brian Glover, vermouth " is as far removed from the natural produce of the vine as it is possible for a fortified wine to get.

According to Brian Lapping, this was the first step ever taken towards directing help to areas with special needs, “ the reversal of the former position under which ministers had passed the burden of social help measures in housing, education and health to local authorities without passing them any money .”

According to Brian Lapping, this would have been Wilson ’ s largest reform of social security, had it been carried out.

" According to Brian Pennington, Ward's book " became a centerpiece in the British construction of Hinduism and in the political and economic domination of the subcontinent.

According to Brian A. Sparkes " The most detailed treatment in literature is to be found in the Argonautica ... however, we have detailed images of the episode, 150 years earlier, dated to around 400 BC.

According to Smart's October 1, 2009 US federal court testimony, after Smart had gone to bed on June 4, 2002, a man Smart identified as Brian Mitchell had entered her bedroom and had " placed his hand on my chest and then put the knife up to my neck.

According to Brian Doherty, writer for Reason magazine, " Malatesta could get tens of thousands, sometimes more than 100, 000, fans to show up whenever arrived in town.

According to Brian Walker, director of Oxfam, " a solidarity and compassion surged across our nation " from the broadcast of Year Zero.

According to Brian Copenhaver, " Kepler accused Fludd of being a theosophist, and Kepler was right ".

According to one account by Piers Paul Read ( 1978 ), in January 1963, shortly after the furore over the Airport Job had died down, Brian Field called Gordon Goody to a meeting at the Old Bailey and asked him whether he was interested in a large sum of money that only a large gang could steal.

According to Brian Leiter's Law School rankings, Davis ranks 23rd in the nation in terms of scholarly impact as measured by academic citations of tenure-stream faculty.

According to the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999 – 2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Duncan Idaho is born on the planet Giedi Prime, under the Harkonnen Regime.

According to Brian McFarlane, in The Encyclopedia of British Film, hosted by British Film Institute's Screenonline, Finch " did not emerge unscathed from a life of well-publicised hell-raising, and several biographies chronicle the affairs and the booze, but a serious appraisal of a great actor remains to be written.

According to the film's conceptual designer Brian Froud, Labyrinth was first discussed between himself and director Jim Henson during a limousine ride on the way back from a special screening of their 1982 fantasy film The Dark Crystal.

According to Brian Harvey's book Russia In Space, there was also a real Soviet communications ship called the Vladislav Volkov, but it was sold by the Russian government following the fall of the USSR.

According to the Legends of Dune prequel trilogy ( 2002 – 2004 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Imperial House Corrino is founded by Viceroy Faykan Butler, the grandson of Xavier Harkonnen and grandnephew of Serena Butler.

According to the New York Post, someone in the social environment of Megan has told: " Megan has become a great stepmom, and Brian knows she'll be wonderful with the baby.

According to Brian Dunning of Skeptoid, folk tales of the Jersey Devil prior to 1909 calling it the " Leeds Devil " may have been created to discredit local politician Daniel Leeds who served as deputy to the colonial governor of New York and New Jersey in the 1700s, and folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand wrote that the spread of contemporary pop culture has overtaken traditional Jersey Devil legends.

According to Brian Eno, once a member of Roxy Music, Ladytron are " the best of English pop music ".