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Meddlers Quotes

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Sophocles
“Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.”
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

Robert Buettner
“Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn't expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We're so smart that we're a menace.”
Robert Buettner, Overkill

Scott Lynch
“Sure, kid. Look, there's a very old saying in my family: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is another wizard fucking with you.”
Scott Lynch, Rogues

“Yeah, um. I鈥檓 a wizard. I meddle. It鈥檚 what we do.”
Harry Dresden

Sinclair Lewis
“Is it just possible that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators? Possible that plain men with the humble trait of minding their own business will rank higher in the heavenly hierarchy than all the plumed souls who have shoved their way in among the masses and insisted on savings them?”
Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

Robin Alexander
“I feel like all my stars have aligned, and Uranus wants to knock me out of orbit.”
Robin Alexander