"Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'."

-- Aeschylus

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“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”

Source : Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.386, Random House
“Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.”
“Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.”
“I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.”
“We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity.”
“I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.”

Source : "Here’s The Most Remarkable Thing About The Universe, According To Bill Nye". Interview With Macrina Cooper-White, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.
“The function of a great library is to store obscure books.”
“I'm an ice queen, I'm the Sun King, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space.”

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