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I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.
The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.
Raft Point is among the greatest examples of ancient indigenous art we know of.
The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.
We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.
Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were.
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!
Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.
If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.
O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?
I think storytelling in general is how we really deeply know things. It's ancient.
I shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it.
The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.
But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.
For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.
The ku-magic is a very ancient magic. It predates Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.
Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt.
Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.
Every day, the dispensing of existence.... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.
The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity.
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.
Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.
Ancient Hawaiians say: When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean.
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.
The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.
In ancient times they sacrificed the virgins. Men were not about to sacrifice the sluts!
Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.
True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.
Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.
These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'
Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.
Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.
India and Vietnam are old civilizations. We have ancient cultural and spiritual connections.