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Ancient Quotes

I was taught about slavery, but it was the ancient Egyptians. That's the closest I got to African history.

History Slavery Ancient Got Taught

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

Passion Ancient Books Physical Form

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

Evil Theme Hiding Ancient Us Among

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.

Me Living Spirit Weed Ancient Sort

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

Stephen Gardiner

Man Circle Legs Center Ancient Arms

No women in ancient Rome ever had the vote.

Women Vote Rome Ancient Ever Had

A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

Michael Steinhardt

Life Art My Life Little Ancient

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

Science Bible Mythology Ancient Fit

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

Athens China Poet Ancient Would

I call for the awakening of our people's ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbarism.

Soul People Capable Call Ancient

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

Place Rome Ancient Violent

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.

Henry James Sumner Maine

World Class Nation Over Ancient Far

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

David Rockefeller

Mother World Taste Europe Ancient

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

World Society Ancient Therefore

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Margaret Atwood

Time Meaning Find Soil Own Ancient

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

Language Used Ancient Structures

The name 'Amazon' was not originally Greek; linguists believe it derived from the ancient Iranian word for 'warrior.'

Believe Name Warrior Ancient Amazon

Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.

S. Jay Olshansky

Physician Immortality Ancient Century

In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.

Memory Tools Lost Now Tool Ancient

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.

I Am Feeling London Ancient Whole

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

Mind Question Ancient Composition

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

Stephen Leacock

Fall Back Statistics Ancient Lies

There is nothing inherently conservative in the ancient world.

World Nothing Conservative Ancient

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

Michael Steinhardt

Art Risk Ancient Attraction Element

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