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There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. ↗

— James H. Breasted

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I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species. ↗

— George Bentham

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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds. ↗

— Hans Berger

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I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you. ↗

— Wes Anderson

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Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds. ↗

— Athanasius

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Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work. ↗

— Tom Araya

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We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there. ↗

— Tom Araya

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But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place. ↗

— Dario Argento

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Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. ↗

— Red Auerbach

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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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