Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
Most archaeology in London these days is rescue archaeology – projects designed to preserve as much as possible from the relentless cash-driven redevelopment. It’s not a new problem. Ask a medievalist about Victorian cellars or an Iron Age specialist about medieval ploughing – but take snacks, because you’re going to be there for a while.
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I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.
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I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.
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Take encouragement from how far you've come, not how far you have left to go.
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There is a legend. And to protest is daft.
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The chicken is a little dry and/or you've ruined my life.
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I press my back against the wall and feel the pressure of it against my whole body. I want to feel enclosed again, protected, safe as I was in the village. I wrap the blanket tightly around me, and I try to comfort myself by thinking about Tadeusz, but the loneliness that has opened up inside me is bigger than one person can fill.
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What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
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Although each human rights victory energizes us to continue our work, there remains a deep sorrow for those prisoners still wrongfully languishing in jail.
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.
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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
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There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
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We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius.
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What we need now is to deter people from committing these crimes, and I think best way is to have more police.
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By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.
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When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.
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This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire.
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As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this provided me with the background. It showed me how, possibly, the people lived back then.
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Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents.
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Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.
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Most archaeology in London these days is rescue archaeology – projects designed to preserve as much as possible from the relentless cash-driven redevelopment. It’s not a new problem. Ask a medievalist about Victorian cellars or an Iron Age specialist about medieval ploughing – but take snacks, because you’re going to be there for a while.
