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- Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society.... It became part of the moral…
- Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.
- Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name, or one that…
- Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
- Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion…
- Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment, and in either…
- None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the…
- The Naked Socialist connects the ancient order of oppression with the modern order of oppression. The Naked Socialist is a fabulous book and we need…
- You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close to him. But…
- Even during the period when Rome lost much of her ancient prestige, an Indian traveler observed that trade all over the world was operated with…
- Well-referenced, with numerous quotations from renowned Egyptologists and classical scholars, Acharya's penetrating research clearly lays out the very ancient pre-Christian basis of modern Christianity. Those…
- Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has…
- We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories,…
- Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems…
- Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument…
- You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and…
- The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the windows of strip…
- Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.
- Hence I pronounce this, that as old experience doth attain to something like prophetic strain, so all comely facility traces back to long pondering; intuitions…
- O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the city of Troy…
More Ancient Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source,… — Frederick Lenz
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson
- A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and… — A. A. Gill
- All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman,… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman