Ancient Quotes - Page 34

• There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Moving, Connections

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• This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?

  Azar Nafisi

  Girl, Religious, Islamic

  "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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• White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!"

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Freedom, Men

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• Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal us all.

  Henry Twells

  Fall, Health, Evening

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• There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).

  Arthur Koestler

  Ukraine, Names, Abundance

  Arthur Koestler (1976). “The thirteenth tribe: the Khazar empire and its heritage”, Random House Inc

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• The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia and of Palestine, were considered the rightful successors of the older Sanhedrin...At the present time, the Jewish people have no living central authority comparable in status to the ancient Sanhedrins or the later academies. Therefore, any decision regarding the Jewish religion must be based on the Talmud as the final resume of the teaching of those authorities when they existed.

  Louis Finkelstein

  Teacher, Teaching, People

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• The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Religious, Strong, Years

  "Peace: 1991-1995". World Scientific publication, p. 338, 1997.

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• I've been collecting photos for a long time, I mean since I started making money. But what you have had to go through to find a good photo is like a needle in the haystack sometimes. You'll drive from one gallery to the next gallery to the next gallery. It's not an easy process. It's a very ancient model that just hasn't caught up with the times.

  Guy Oseary

  Mean, Long, Next

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• 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

  Country, Taken, Men

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• W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are passed on.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Attention

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• "We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

  Abraham Cowley

  Art, Garden, Eagles

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• My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

  Bernie Taupin

  Mother, Father, War

  "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.

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• Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshipped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow.

  Lawrence Wright

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Renowned journalist throws the book at Scientology". Interview with Daniel Burke, www.washingtonpost.com. January 31, 2013.

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• In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Mean, Eye

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• The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it before.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Land, Practice

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• The causal body is the most ancient and timeless part of a person. It has the capacity to know and do things that the physical mind and body cannot.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Body

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The causal body is the part of you that lives forever. It is ancient and complicated. It has lived through countless lives in both this and in other worlds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Forever

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• What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Color, Knowing, People

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• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Father, Practice

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• China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Country, China, Position

  "The voice of China ; speeches of Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek between December 7, 1941, and October 10, 1943, including some recent messages to British leaders and the British people". Book by Hutchinson & CO., 1944.

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• While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.

  Dick Cavett

  Book, Kids, People

  "Former Talk Show Host Dick Cavett Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. May 5, 2012.

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• To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Matter, Facts

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.6, Routledge

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• These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this hard-edged, worried world? Into this cultural uncertainty Gregory Orr's spirited meditation on the surprisingly tensile strength of poetry in the face of profound suffering and grief presents a welcome fresh view of the ancient human instinct to cry out and to praise.

  Patricia Hampl

  Grief, Views, Profound

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• Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

  Maturin Murray Ballou

  Language, Modern, Excellent

  Maturin Murray Ballou (1899). “Edge-tools of speech”

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• The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest.

  Charles Tennyson Turner

  Eye, Rainbow, Magic

  Charles Tennyson Turner, James Spedding (1880). “Collected Sonnets, Old and New”

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