"They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks',……" — Tom Wolfe

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• If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents,… — H.G. Wells
• Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best.… — Alafair Burke
• But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by… — Samuel Johnson
• The #‎ zodiac sign on the #‎ Ascendant normally tells us much concerning the dharma of the individual - that… — Dane Rudhyar
• The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant… — George Gilder
• I've been fighting for more than 24 years and as I continue my ascendant career I want to be true… — Orlando Cruz
• The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet,… — John Aubrey
• If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh… — William Lilly
• I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that… — Junot Diaz
• The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. — John Stuart Mill
• You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all… — George Saunders
• Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have… — James Surowiecki

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