#ancient

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

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All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

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At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

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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. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

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The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one. ↗

— Morarji Desai

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The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

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

— Stephen Leacock

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If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy. ↗

— James Monroe

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