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Tag Name "Babylon" (36)

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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
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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.
J. Michael Straczynski
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Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.
Ilona Andrews
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New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.
Christopher Morley
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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
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I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun.
Bruce Boxleitner
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Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.
Ignatius of Loyola
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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
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The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation of the hands.
L. M. Boyd
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No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
J. Michael Straczynski
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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
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Tell the other rangers, the ambassadors, everyone is this army of light. Babylon 5 stands with you. Tell them, tell them that from this place with will deliver notice to the parliaments of conquerors that a line has been drawn against the darkness and we will hold that line no matter the cost.
John Sheridan
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