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#1

“This world belongs to the weird ones, and the weird ones become kings.”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Galaxy Pirates

tags: dominance, emperor, king, power, ruler, strange, unique, weird, weirdness, world

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#2

“Shah Jahan who proved
an emperor to be shorter than a lover,
who turned a grave into a temple
who gave his beloved a place of God
and converted love into a prayer.”
― Suman Pokhrel

tags: emperor, god, grave, love, prayer, taj-mahal, temple

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#3

“While many find the new clothes of the emperor magnificent, some dare to say out loud, he is simply naked. If the clear sighted are constrained by the credulous and when the “followers” are browbeating the "knowers", the cat is among the pigeons and the age of obscuration is under way. Obviously "something wicked this way comes…" ("His master's voice" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

tags: age, be-under-way, browbeating, cat, clear-sighted, constrained, credulous, dare, emperor, followers, knower, magnificent, naked, new-clothes, obscurantism, obviously, pigeons, say-out-loud, way, wicked

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#4

“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.”
― Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

tags: corruption, magistrate, organized-religion, roman-empire, rome, useful, worship

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#5

“It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.”
― Neel Burton

tags: civilisation, geography, history, oenology, roman-empire, rome, viticulture, wine

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#6

“The Rome he has been trained to serve, the Rome of Augustus and Germanicus, was gone. In its place stood Neronopolis, ruled by a megalomaniac brat.”
― James Romm, Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero

tags: 2014, 65, decline-of-the-west, end-of-empire, nero, regicide, roman-empire, subrius-flavus

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