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• Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Tyrants, Slave Owners

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• 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

  Years, Culture, Alive

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• 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.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Misunderstood, Use, Literature

  "Aphorisms from the Athenaeum" by Friedrich Schlegel, #19, 1798.

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• The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

  Voltaire

  Fighting, History, Architecture

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

  Stephen Leacock

  Lying, Fall, Statistics

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

  Carol P. Christ

  Firsts, Goddess, Interest

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• But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

  William Robertson Smith

  Aquariums, Religion, Essentials

  William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.17, Transaction Publishers

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• The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

  Kit Williams

  Religion, Advertising, Contemporary Society

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• Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

  DeWitt Bodeen

  Lying, Fog, Doe

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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

  Men, Swag, Circles

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• Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.

  Carl E. Olson

  Study, Pagan, Christianity

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• There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

  Leon Kass

  World, Given, Tension

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• The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

  Jeremy Northam

  Memories, Drama, Views

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• Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

  Marilyn French

  Love, Thinking, Self

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

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• Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Falling In Love, Order, People

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• The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

  David Antin

  Memories, Anxiety, Greek

  "A Conversation with David Antin". Book by David Antin, Charles Bernstein, 2002.

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• To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.

  Steve Lacy

  Weed, Marijuana, Doe

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• And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties with the architectural concepts that this country's ancient civilization explored and demonstrated, nor with the political and social freedom that lay behind them.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Civilization, Gdp, Ties

  "The house: its origins and evolution".

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• Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

  James Hillman

  Psychology, Needs, Awakening

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• The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

  Tavis Smiley

  Pain, Sea, Storm

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• Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Religious, Hands, Movement

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.59, Princeton University Press

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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

  People, Growth, Example

  James Monroe, Ian Elliot, United States. President (1817-1825 : Monroe) (1969). “James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Golf, Years, Games

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• I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

  Hesiod

  Wise, Patience, Hope

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• The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

  Samuel Butler

  Taken, Sailor, English Language

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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