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1 " Most European nations identify themselves with eagles or lions, with some predator or creature of the air, ascendant and belligerent. I would like to visit the country which adopts the groundhog as its mascot, somewhere peaceful, some place that curls against the secrets of the earth, a little Belgium of the imagination, tables piled high with cakes, the Sunday bells ringing (not too loudly), the light falling on rolling hillocks studded with salad greens. "
2 " If Jupiter was in the ascendant when you were born, you are of a jovial disposition; and if you're not jovial but miserable and saturnine that's a disaster, because a disaster is a dis-astro, or misplaced planet. Disaster is Latin for ill-starred.The fault, as Shakespeare put it, is not in our stars; but the language is. "
― Mark Forsyth , The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
3 " There are many worlds in the 'Realm of Worlds' where the ascendant beings are not male or female. "
― Anne Rice , Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (The Vampire Chronicles, #12)
4 " The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. "
5 " I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films. "
