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I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
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I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.
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I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great. He goes, What? I'm 28.
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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
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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.
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In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
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Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.
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It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).
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It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
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Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans... tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage.
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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
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Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
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New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.
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Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves, but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 54 min 25 sec -
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.
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Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
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