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The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood! - Robert Peel Quotes
This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths. - William Robertson Smith Quotes
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. - Northrop Frye Quotes
Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. Its one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for. - Russell Banks Quotes
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. - Hannah Arendt Quotes
The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years. - Bill Toomey Quotes
As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest. - Donald Johanson Quotes
To me, there is spirit in a reed. Its a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. Its really an ancient vibration. - Steve Lacy Quotes
When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words. - Henry Norris Russell Quotes
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. - Loren Eiseley Quotes
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 Quotes
If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish. - Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - theres no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause. - Orson Scott Card Quotes
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me. - Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
We may look through ancient and modern history, yet scarce find a sovereign to whom God offered the privilege of bestowing on humanity a boon so vast. - Robert Dale Owen Quotes
Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. - Alexander Hamilton Quotes
According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time. - Grazia Deledda Quotes
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. - Hu Shih Quotes
I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove. - Vernon L Smith Quotes
In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. - Charles Lyell Quotes
The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another. - Henry James Sumner Maine Quotes
How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity. - Olympia Brown Quotes
An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad. - Jean Marie Le Pen Quotes
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. - Henry James Sumner Maine Quotes
The poets other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them. - Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
Society therefore is an ancient as the world. - Voltaire Quotes
In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece. - Nia Vardalos Quotes
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. - Friedrich Von Schlegel Quotes
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