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"A very ancient and fish-like smell." »William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 2 scene 2
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"I feel again a spark of that ancient flame." »Virgil
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"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these" »Ovid
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"I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller." »Isak Dinesen, (Karen Blixen)
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"The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence." »John F. Kennedy
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"Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." »Michael McClary
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"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions." »Robert Lynd
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"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita." »J. Robert Oppenheimer
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"Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal." »Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits." »Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"I bet if you were a mummy wrapper in ancient Egypt, on thing you would constantly find yourself telling people would be, 'Be sure, before I start, you have all the jewelry and so forth on the body, because I am NOT unwrapping him later.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort." »Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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"To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed." »Phyllis Mcginley
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"ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House" »Will Rogers
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"If you're an archaeologist, I bet it's real embarrassing to put together a skull from a bunch of ancient bone fragments, but then it turns out it's not a skull but just an old dried-out potato." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"If you were an ancient barbarian, I bet a real embarrassing thing would be if you were sacking Rome and your cape got caught on something and you couldn't get it unhooked, and you had to ask another barbarian to unhook it for you." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day." »Stephen Jay Gould
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"Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty." »James Russell Lowell
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"No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves." »John Peter Zenger
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"It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity." »Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
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"It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity." »Alexander Hamilton
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"As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see. It was by their faith that people of ancient times won God's approval." »Hebrews 111-2 Bible
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"It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor." »Shaftesbury
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"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!" »John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961
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"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security." »Author Unknown
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"CHRIS The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Knowledge doesn't come cheap my friend. CHRIS Good or bad, curiosity is woven into our DNA like tonsils or like the opposable thumb. It's the fire under the ass of the human experience" »Jeffrey Vlaming
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