History Quotes
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Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn’t fit the findings of science.
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Clyde Tombaugh
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There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
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Len Wein
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But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome – people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
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Elizabeth Gilbert
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- “We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey We eat everything and nothing eats us ”
- The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.
- Morarji Desai
- The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
- Arthur Keith
- In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
- Stephen Leacock
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The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
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David Antin
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Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
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Margaret Atwood
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The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
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William Blackstone
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- The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
- Zahi Hawass
- It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
- Gregory Bateson
- There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.
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George Cuvier
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According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.
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Grazia Deledda
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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
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Loren Eiseley
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
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Enid Bagnold
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
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Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society – as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.
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David Bohm
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The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
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Henry James Sumner Maine
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These places, and the ancient things you know, You won’t know soon. I’m working on it now.’
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Andrew Motion
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Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.
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Carl Olson
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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
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James Monroe
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We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.
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Nick Nolte
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