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“The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.”

Source: Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard

“I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine.”

Humans Book Soul Body Mother House Stars My Own Taken Influence Mines Fine Drink Goodness Office Fortune Treasure My Soul Stomach Pool Roof Theft

Author:Walter Wangerin

“Eternity.Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must be, yet which contradict'st All sense, all reasoning,thou, who never wast Less than thyself, and who still art thyself Entire, though the deep draught which Time has taken Equals thy present storeNo line can reach To thy unfathomed depths. The reasoning sage Who can dissect a sunbeam, count the stars, And measure distant worlds, is here a child, And, humbled, drops his calculating pen.”

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.”

Helping Christian Used Stars Poverty Rich Taken Conscience Helping Others Vow Uneasy Christian Music

Author:Amy Grant

“All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Yet I believe you, messengers. There, where the world is turned inside out, a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts, you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seams.”

World Believe I Believe Stars White Existence Taken Dresses Wings Heavy Beast Fabric Trustworthy Messengers Away From You

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?”

Persons Sometimes Facts Happens Father Stars Teach Taken Depends Birth Lows Things Happen Make Things Happen Horoscopes

Author:Sallust

“The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole; in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center; in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars; and it has no motion from place to place.”

Whole Earth Moving Lying Heaven Stars Taken Middle Position Shapes Distance Size Astronomy Fixed Spheres Cosmology Ratios

Book:Ptolemy's Almagest

Source: Ptolemy's Almagest

“All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?”

Body Care Order Stars Natural Moral Taken Planets Heavenly Heavenly Bodies Stars And Planets

Book:The Portable Benjamin Franklin

Source: The Portable Benjamin Franklin

“One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.”

People World Believe Looks Earth Film Used Choices Stars Wonder Taken One Day Filled Lists Lifestyle Shocked Saddened Film Stars People With Depression Lifestyle Choices

Author:Alastair Campbell

“Glasses are for the brave. I do not need to pretend that I am sighted. People who need glasses and don't wear them are slightly less treacherous than people who don't need them and do-like every shallow Hollywood star who wants to be taken seriously.”

People Want Needs Stars Taken Hollywood Brave Glasses Shallow Treacherous Hollywood Stars

Author:Greg Proops