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• We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?

  George S. Clason

  Country, Men, Water

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.82, Lulu.com

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• Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

  William Wordsworth

  Wise, Learning, Speech

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.316

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• After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon

  George Q. Cannon

  Jesus, Organization, Two

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• Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.

  John Gould Fletcher

  Life, Death, Stars

  John Gould Fletcher, Lucas Carpenter, Leighton Rudolph (1988). “Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher”, p.172, University of Arkansas Press

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• It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that it awakens are independent of time and place, because its kingdom is not of this world. To those who have and hold a sense of the significance of form what does it matter whether the forms that move them were created in Paris the day before yesterday or in Babylon fifty centuries ago? The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Moving, Independent

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• Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. 'Topless Pizza Lunch'.

  Alistair Cooke

  Food, Cutting, Lunch

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• Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.

  David Icke

  Blood, Humanity, Brotherhood

  "What the devil's he on about? David Icke says Opening Ceremony was a secret Satanic ritual" by Simon Head, www.mirror.co.uk. August 1, 2012.

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• In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fiction, Babylon 5, Chains

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she is not healed; let us then leave her, that she may become the habitation of dragons, spectres, and witches.

  Martin Luther

  Farewell, Wrath, Dragons

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• May all the gods whom I settled in their sacred centers ask daily of Bêl and Nâbu that my days be long and may they intercede for my welfare. ... The people of Babylon blessed my kingship, and I settled all the lands in peaceful abodes.

  Cyrus the Great

  Blessed, Land, Long

  Inscription on the Cyrus Cylinder, as translated at Livius.org, www.livius.org. 538 B.C.E..

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• While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

  Gregory Maguire

  Party, Pride, Garden

  "Meet the Writers: Biography (from barnesandnoble.com)".

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• In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!

  Spider Robinson

  Jobs, Educational, Night

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• I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.

  Andy Serkis

  Age, Middle East, Done

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. January 27, 2003.

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• When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor, Black, white, latino Americans who had nothing to lose. They would challenge our government to eliminate exploitative, merciless, and war-mongering policies, nationwide, or else "tie up the country" through "means of civil disobedience." Dr. King intended to organize those legions into "coercive direct actions" that would make of Babylon a dysfunctional behemoth begging for relief. Is it any wonder he was killed?

  June Jordan

  Country, Kings, War

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• Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

  George Eliot

  Sports, Ignorance, Knowledge

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda”, p.38

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• New York: A third-rate Babylon.

  H. L. Mencken

  New York, Rate, Thirds

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• Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Food, Names, Soup

  Sarah Josepha Hale (2012). “Early American Cookery: "The Good Housekeeper," 1841”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Historical Novels, Captivity

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• "Bolshoi Babylon" is the work of filmmakers Mark Franchetti and Nicholas Read. Franchetti has been a Moscow-based journalist for 18 years. He won a British Press Award for his coverage of the 2002 Moscow theater siege in which 130 hostages were killed. He's covered Russian politics and the war in Ukraine.

  Elizabeth Blair Lee

  War, Ukraine, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.

  Lucille Clifton

  Hands, Bridges, Everyday

  Lucille Clifton (2013). “The Book of Light”, p.25, Copper Canyon Press

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• Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.

  Ilona Andrews

  Lectures, Fit, Restraint

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.195, Penguin

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• How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of Ovid, who, with others like them, are now gnashing their teeth in the prison of the infernal Babylon, under the cruet tyranny of Pluto?

  Honorius Augustodunensis

  Plato, Scary, Soul

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• Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Fall, Play, Phoenix

  Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light

  Mira Grant

  Light, Three, Nimble

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• Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Sweet, Pie, Lessons

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