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You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more…My friends, if… — Standing Bear Copy Share Image
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“We believe this sharing behavior extended to sex as well. A great deal of research from primatology, anthropology, anatomy, and psychology points… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
“A behavior has occurred that is good, bad, or ambiguous. How have cultural factors stretching back to the origins of humans contributed… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Don't tell me that. I've lived in hell for the past thousand years. I spent a thousand years wishing I'd never been… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Ten thousand years ago, her husband, Abraham the Mage, had presented her with the weapons and armor. “To keep you safe,” he… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone, wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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“Grendel left the Boneyard for the first time in a thousand years, and the world trembled at his coming. The ground rumbled… — Cedric Nye Copy Share Image
“here is something that is impossible for anyone to believe. The human species has been in existence as Homo sapiens for (let… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“With its wide, tree-lined boulevards and rich architectural heritage dating back over a thousand years, Paris had long been considered a jewel… — Will Jordan Copy Share Image
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“Oh, now, life, life! I lifted up my hands and called upon eternal truth, not with words, but with tears; ecstasy, immeasurable… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Premillennialism. Premillennialism is any belief that Christ will come before the “thousand years.” Premillennialists believe that at his coming Christ will institute… — Jonathan Menn Copy Share Image
Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Don't expect me to be sane anymore. Don't let's be sensible. It was a marriage at Louveciennes—you can't dispute it. I came… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I’m over a thousand years old. I’ve seen it all. You, sweetcheeks, are nothing new.” At what must have been an outraged… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
“Make doing your best a habit, and you will never know not doing your best. If you build roads build them Roman-make… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“We will not find the enemy.8 Because the enemy does not exist in space, but in time: four thousand years ago. We… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
“But you won’t abdicate." Of course not. It’s my duty to go on, to maintain the line. I can’t possibly fail in… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“But I shall transmit their names far down the ages. These names alone will remain in the future, divested of their objects.… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“While the system of institutional churches of various stripes has been well established, the recovery of the independent assembly in homes, house… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
“Altogether forty-five Emperors had claimed the Spear of Destiny as their possession between the coronation in Rome of Charlemagne and the fall… — Trevor Ravenscroft Copy Share Image
“I’d like to see a lot of this stuff in print before I die—but not the bulk of it, oh no! I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew…Mars… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“Now there are some things we all know, but we don't take'm out and look at'm very often. We all know that… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“In time, the Deity perceived that death was a mistake; a mistake, in that it was insufficient; insufficient, for the reason that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“They were a large family of women-always women, although I guess guys factored in there somewhere, seeing as how the family had… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
“The choice between James’s vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“I Know you are asking: What if I am wrong? What if RAGNAROK does not come? What if it does not happen… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Fundamentalist Christianity: fascinating. These people actually believe that the world is twelve thousand years old. Swear to God. Based on what? I… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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