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• Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed.

  Peter Scott

  Civilization, Zippers, Matter

  Peter Scott (2008). “There's a Spouse in My House: A Humorous Journey Through the First Years of Marriage”, p.72, Penguin

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• I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in excavation is to uncover the mysteries of the past and add to the store of human knowledge. They lie. What they really want is a spectacular discovery, so they can get their names in the newspapers and inspire envy and hatred in the hearts of their rivals.

  Barbara Mertz

  Lying, Heart, Past

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• We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.

  Serj Tankian

  Years, Civilization, Humanity

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• I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.

  Jennifer McMahon

  Baby, Lying, Skeletons

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• Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  New Orleans, Ohio, Cities

  "Albino zombie snakes and voodoo potions: the legacy of Lafcadio Hearn, raconteur extraordinaire" by Jim Gabour, www.theguardian.com. March 05, 2015.

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• You’re kind of a psycho. I get that.” “I might be,” Monica agreed, and gave her a slow, strange smile. “You’re one smart little freak. Now run away, smart little freak, before I change my mind and stick you in one of these old suitcases for some architect to find a hundred years from now.” Claire blinked. “Archaeologist.” Monica’s eyes turned winter cold. “Oh, you’d better start running away now.

  Rachel Caine

  Running, Smart, Eye

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.107, Penguin

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• I wondered if I would appear on a temple wall painting someday. A blonde Egyptian girl with purple highlights running sideways through the palm trees, screaming "Yikes!" in hieroglyphics as Neith chased after me. The thought of some poor archaeologist trying to figure that out almost lifted my spirits.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Running, Wall

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• What kind of archaeologist carries a weapon?

  Jack O'Neill

  Weapons, Kind, Window Of Opportunity

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• On the whole … archaeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the Scriptural record. More than one archaeologist has found his respect for the Bible increased by the experience of excavation in Palestine. Archaeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics.

  Millar Burrows

  Views, Reliability, Records

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• I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.

  Kathy Reichs

  Police, North Carolina, Bones

  "This much I know" by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2008.

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• I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until it appears. I was not making any demands. I went purely to see what would come, what might be there. I didn't have to be archaeologist or historian or tourist, I just needed to be available.

  Paul Caponigro

  Light, Tourists, Demand

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• After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it was not well-paid. I was an excavator, not a lecturer as well, so paying rent on a flat was tricky. In the end I decided to retrain as a journalist as I couldn't see a future in it.

  Neil Oliver

  Self, Scotland, Ends

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Yesterday in Egypt, archaeologists discovered the burial site for the 50 children of Ramses II...Fifty children! What I want to know is, who decided to name a condom after this guy?

  Conan O'Brien

  Children, Egypt, Names

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• One of the most important finds within the land of Egypt occurred when the Egyptologist and archaeologist Professor Walter B. Emery (1903-1971) was excavating tombs at the necropolis of Saqqara, one of the oldest cities in the land. There Professor Emery discovered men with blond hair and fair complexions. These individuals were revered and honored by the Egyptians as specially endowed elite.

  Michael Tsarion

  Men, Hair, Egypt

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• I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I am not good at statistics. So I hit a real wall with archaeology. It's probably like wanting to be an architect - you think it's all fun and games, and then you have to get out a calculator and you're done.

  Sloane Crosley

  Wall, Fun, Real

  Interview with Meghan Daum, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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• I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.

  Ben Stiller

  College, Acting, Becoming

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to have done differently, but everything that happened to me made me the person I am today. No matter how negative it seemed at the time or whatever hardship it seemed to have been at that time, Im just the sum of all those amazing experiences.

  Chaka Khan

  Today, Negative, Done

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It is from Italy that we launch through the world this violently upsetting incendiary manifesto of ours. With it, today, we establish Futurism, because we want to free this land from its smelly gangrene of professors, archaeologists, ciceroni and antiquarians.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Cancer, Burning, World

  "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism" by F. T. Marinetti. Le Figaro, www.italianfuturism.org. February 20, 1909.

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• False history gets made all day, any day,
  the truth of the new is never on the news
  False history gets written every day
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  the lesbian archaeologist watches herself
  sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing,
  asking the clay all questions but her own.

  Adrienne Rich

  History, Clay, Watches

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.

  Stephen King

  Fossils, Succeed, Unbroken

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, news.stlpublicradio.org. June 14, 2013.

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• Wherever man has left the stamp of mind on brute-matter; whether we designate his work as structure, texture, or mixture, mechanical or chymical; whether the result be a house, a ship, a garment, a piece of glass, or a metallic implement, these memorials of economy and invention will always be worthy of the attention of the Archaeologist.

  Charles Thomas Newton

  Science, Men, Glasses

  Charles Thomas Newton (2010). “Essays on Art and Archaeology”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

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