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• Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

  Bruce Sterling

  Saws, Corny, Window

  "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole". Talk at Long Now Foundation, 2004.

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• Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

  Horace Mann

  Jesus, Book, Cities

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.192

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• In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political abduction, ... ... Far from my own country, but in deep communion with all Haitians, including Haitians abroad, I continue to launch an appeal for peaceful resistance.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Country, Order, Political

  "Aristide appeals for peace in Haiti" by Jeff Koinange, Lucia Newman and Barbara Starr, www.cnn.com. March 8, 2004.

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• Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

  Richard Leakey

  Military, Distance, Police

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• They have a lot of trouble with pronunciation, because they can't move their jaw muscles, because of malnutrition caused by wisely refusing to eat English food, much of which was designed and manufactured in medieval times during the reign of King Walter the Mildly Disturbed.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Kings, Humorous

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Peace, Mind, Arise

  Ramana Maharshi, C. G. (FRW) Jung (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, Shambhala Pubns

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• Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped on the face by the basest of slaves (Jn. 18:22). He gives you an example of victory, yet do you refuse to undergo this at the hands of a man of like passions as yourself? You are ashamed of becoming an imitator of God (Eph. 5:1), how then will you reign with Him and share in His glory in the kingdom of heaven if you do not endure that man?

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Passion, Men

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• Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Taken, Giving, Enthusiasm

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• To reign by opinion, begin by trampling it under your feet.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Feet, Opinion

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• At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.

  Mohammed Dib

  Nature, Reflection, Sky

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• In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Arms, Kingdoms, Violence

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• The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Over You, Doe

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Feb 08, 2014

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• To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Leadership, Society, Friendless

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 2, scene 4, l. 47

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• A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.

  George Arnold

  Summer, Sleep, Dark

  George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.81

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• "From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion of Rome which repeatedly broke out in the most furious massacres and insurrections. Humanity is shocked at the recital of the horrid cruelties which the Jews committed in the cities of Egypt, of Cyprus, and of Cyrene, where they dwelt in treacherous friendship with the unsuspecting natives...In Cyrene they massacred 220,000 Greeks; in Cyprus 240,000; in Egypt a very great multitude. Many of these unhappy victims were sawed asunder..."

  Nesta Helen Webster

  Cities, Egypt, Rome

  Nesta Helen Webster (1921). “World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization”

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• I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Christian, Education, Political

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• Careerism is the determination to reign in hell rather than serve in heaven.

  Hugh Nibley

  Determination, Heaven, Hell

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• There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.

  Philip Sidney

  Littles, Rebellion, Equity

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or artful play of little lights, or an attention to a variety of tints is to be avoided; a quietness and simplicity must reign over the whole work, to which a breadth of uniform and simple color will very much contribute.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Simple, Light, Air

  Joshua Reynolds (1835). “The Literary works of sir Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy”, p.349

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• Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.

  Thomas Gray

  Adventure, Littles, Limits

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• The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest.

  Terry Pratchett

  Writing, Ankh, Olaf

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• We simply cannot afford to give the reigns of government so someone who will double down on trickle down

  William J. Clinton

  Government, Giving, Trickle Down

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• A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

  John Milton

  Night, Chaos, Hell

  John Milton (1903*). “Poetical Works”

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• A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.

  William Cowper

  Illustration, Your Side, Long

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.86

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• Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.

  Richard Crashaw

  Sweet, Art, Wine

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles (1857). “The poetical works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.15

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