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• In my view, The Temple of Man is the most important work of scholarship of this century. R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz finally proves the existence of the legendary 'sacred science' of the Ancients and systematically demonstrates its modus operandi. It was this great science-based upon an intimate and exact knowledge of cosmic principles-that fused art, religion, science, and philosophy into one coherent whole and sustained Ancient Egypt for three thousand years.

  John Anthony West

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.

  Connie Brockway

  Country, Romance, Lovely

  Connie Brockway (2010). “As You Desire: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, p.117, Loveswept

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• It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles to be fought, sacrifices to be made, an Egypt to be forsaken, a wilderness to be passed through, a cross to be carried, a race to be run. Conversion is not putting a person in an arm-chair and taking them easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Running, Real

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• In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The pharaohs wore the serpent on their headgear and the serpent was the symbol of the Magi of Ireland, the Naddreds, or Druids.

  Michael Tsarion

  Shepherds, Crooks, Pharaohs

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• It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem: the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. Time augments rather than diminishes their everlasting novelty; and to our descendants of a thousand years hence it may safely be predicted that they will be even more fascinating than to ourselves. This is true of many ancient lands, but of no place is it. so true as of Egypt.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Book, Science, Years

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• This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.

  Herodotus

  Kings, Science, Order

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• It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.

  David Brooks

  Transition, Recipes, Ingredients

  "Defending the Coup". www.nytimes.com. July 4, 2013.

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• The origins of Judeo-Christianity are to be found in Egypt.

  Michael Tsarion

  Christianity, Found

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• The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

  Malcolm X

  Country, Black, Culture

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• Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

  Moses

  Children, Israel, Pharaohs

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• Egypt is going to be, potentially, a failed state if we don't help them.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Helping, States, Ifs

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

  James Patterson

  Rivers, Denial

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• The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people.

  Kelly Ayotte

  People, Brotherhood, Way

  "August 18: Ray Kelly, Sybrina Fulton, Benjamin Crump, Ben Jealous, Richard Engel, Sen. Jack Reed, Vali Nasr, Robin Wright, Robert Gibbs, Rich Lowry, Donna Edwards, Chuck Todd". "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. August 18, 2013.

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• The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather, its activities continued strongly during the later centuries, particularly in Persia and other eastern lands of Islam, and it was revived in Egypt during the last century.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Philosophy, Islamic, Eight

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• The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was heading for Ceylon and the naval base there. The capture of Ceylon, the consequent control of the Indian Ocean, and the possibility at the same time of a German conquest of Egypt would have closed the ring and the future would have been black.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Ocean, Black

  "Battle for the Skies". Book by Michael Paterson, David & Charles, 2004.

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• A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression, "They're not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking, Expression, Judgement

  The Conservative Political Action Conference, February 11, 2011.

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• In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Hands, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Colonialism, Feds, Fed Up

  "Egypt’s Nawal El Saadawi: 'We Will Not Let Egypt Burn'". The Root Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

  Bernard Werber

  Children, Israel, Bridges

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• The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.

  Reza Aslan

  Religious, Iran, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript.

  Zahi Hawass

  Pages, Papyrus, Manuscripts

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• The good thing about Egypt is, between the two World Wars, Egypt was - had a liberal society. It has a political life. It has parties. It was not - it was dysfunctional in many ways, but it was not a very repressive regime. Egypt, at one time, was the bellwether of the Arab world, was the trendsetter, created great culture, movies, cinema, you name it.

  Hisham Melhem

  War, Party, Names

  "After Egypt's 'Cosmic' Day, Will Army Usher in Democratic, Civilian Government?". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. February 11, 2011.

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• I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Class, Conservative, Grew Up

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• I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in.

  Anne Waldman

  Communication, Technology, Squares

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.

  David Hume

  Religious, Couple, Cat

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2007). “A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition”, p.70, Oxford University Press

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