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• Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

  Joanne Harris

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  In this world hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible.

  Gautama Buddha

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• Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

  Peter Lewis Allen

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• There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

  Cate Blanchett

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• In my office in Jerusalem, there’s an ancient seal. It’s a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there’s a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

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• Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

  Francis Picabia

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• The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

  Tavis Smiley

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  Tags in Ancient, Away

• The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

  Samuel Butler

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• Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings – stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

  Tom Hiddleston

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

  Stephen Gardiner

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• The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.

  George Edmund Street

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• Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.

  Simon Greenleaf

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• I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

  Mo Yan

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• I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn’t go with another. That’s why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It’s where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That’s my style, and that’s what my work is about.

  Giambattista Valli

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• The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

  Edward Dahlberg

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• They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

  William Congreve

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• Jews don’t care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.

  Evan Sayet

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• Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

  Ambrose Bierce

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• Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

  William Penn

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Moderns, Learning, Ancient

• Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn’t do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

  Peter Albert David Singer

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  Tags in Instant, Ancient, Recipients, Army