"The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come a period of wars, seditions, captivity and death of princes, and destruction of cities, together with dryness and fiery meteors in the air, pestilence, and venomous snakes. Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things."

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Source : "Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy". p. 336, 2011.

Tycho Brahe

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Source : "Immigration Reform and the American Worker". www.newyorker.com. February 21, 2013.
“Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?”
“It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.”
“In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.”

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“Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.”
“The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.”
“So inane-I cause Colon Blow pain”
“Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.”

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