Ancient Quotes

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These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion… — Joan D. Vinge
We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration,… — Rosa Luxemburg
This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of… — Pope Leo X
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile… — Walter Pater
Half a page--and the morning is already ancient. — Michael Ondaatje
I think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and abuse, of intolerance… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives. — Jonathan Haidt
An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme BayÂ â€” Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern legÂ… — John Fowles
In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was terrible; all wept for the dead as… — Athanasius of Alexandria
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians… — Frans de Waal
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of… — William Butler Yeats
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum… — Henry Hazlitt
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. — Tanith Lee
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. — Nikola Tesla
Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together,… — Peter Singer
Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible,… — Jon Krakauer
The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the… — P.J. O'Rourke
I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what my ancestors called… — Heinrich Himmler

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