Ancient Quotes
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The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood—and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
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Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.
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Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
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Blossom time has come and many ancient seekers are today getting their Self Realization.
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I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
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In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)
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The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the floating bulwark of our island.
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Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.
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By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.
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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 after six years he feels the urge to get in the studio with musicans he likes. He closely follows bands like Arcade Fire in recent months. But he is inspired by ancient Chinese folk and jazz these days as well.
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Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.
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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
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The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.
