Gimme a good flavor text quote

[Bram]

I'm finishing up my graduation paper on the interaction between carbon dioxide sequestration and decentralised cogeneration of heat and electricity for the Dutch household sector in the year 2050, and I need a quote.

Every good paper needs a quote.

You can quote me on that, by the way. Ideally, I'd like a Magic quote, ofcourse. Something from a flavor text, I guess. It has to be (pseudo-)deep, vague, and preferably relating to the subject on SOME level (yeah right . Seriously, I'm thinking along the lines of 'energy', 'power', 'fortune telling' and stuff. If I can't find anything good that remotely relates to the subject at hand, I'll take one that's so vague that it can be interpreted to mean almost anything. Also, I don't want it to be immediately recognizable as a magic card quote (only to insiders, as it were).

OK, so that's a shitload of demands. But hey, there's thousands upon thousands of cards. If you happen to come across something cool, lemme know! Thanks a bunch, dudes!

[Matt]

Mother FUCK who changed the apprentice patch to not include flavor text anymore. Otherwise, I'd have a quote for you in no time flat.

[Bram]

Mother FUCK who changed the apprentice patch to not include flavor text anymore.

Yeah, I second that. Great job stealing away half the fun in the game, magic league :-/

[Jacob Orlove]

You could always use Gatherer.

[The Atog Lord]

"The Only Constant is Change" -- Heraclitus

This was on Energy Flux from 4th or 5th I think. Heraclitus is the man, and I could go on for a long, long time about how this Presocratic's conception of The Logos has influenced later thinkers. Eventually, in John, Jesus was equated with the Logos -- and the Logos is very similar to Plato's Demiurge.

But I'll stop before I put everyone to sleep.

[Bram]

While I really like the quote in itself, I see three distinct problems with it:

1. it's slightly over-used.
2. the current state of science believes it to be untrue (in other words: my mentors are gonna hate it ;-)
3. for the purpose of my model, I have assumed ANY more things to be constant that I actually know full well are not, and by the way: I have actually assumed 'change' to be NOT contant at one point ;-)

But thanks for trying!

[bebe]

That which lasts longest serves best

Enduring Renewal


Let insight and energy be your guide


Chromatic Sphere


The energy that infuses the rings with life also melts them away, leaving only useless puddles of slag.


Chimeric Coils

[Methuselahn]

Here's a half serious one and my personal favorite, which happens to meet your qualification of being vague.

Thermokarst:
"Finally we understand the lesson of our home: loss begets renewal."


Polar Kraken
"It was big.  Really, really, big.  No, bigger than that.  It was big!"

[theorigamist]

Energy is never lost, only transformed.
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