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“The trouble with the scientific approach, thought the Brigadier, was that it left you at the mercy of your scientists.”
― Terrance Dicks, Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion

“I tell you this. As war becomes dishonored and its nobility called into question those honorable men who recognize the sanctity of blood will become excluded from the dance, which is the warrior's right, and thereby will the dance become a false dance and the dancers false dancers. And yet there will be one there always who is a true dancer and can you guess who that might be?

You aint nothin.

You speak truer than you know. But I will tell you. Only that man who has offered himself up entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his innermost heart, only that man can dance.

Even a dumb animal can dance.

The judge set the bottle on the bar. Hear me, man, he said. There is room on the stage for one beast and one alone. All others are destined for a night that is eternal and without name. One by one they will step down into the darkness before the floodlamps. Bears that dance, bears that dont.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“Being a god is the quality of being able to be yourself to such an extent that your passions correspond with the forces of the universe, so that”
― Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light

“The specific mode of existence of man implies the need of his learning what happens, and above all what can happen, in the world around him and his own interior world. That it is a matter of the structure of the human condition is shown, outer alia, by the existential necessity of listening to stories and fairy tales, even in the most tragic of circumstances.”
― Mircea Eliade, The Forbidden Forest