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• Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of Plato was sunk ... The sea would necessarily rush in from all quarters, and form what is now called the Atlantic ocean.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Plato, Ocean, Sea

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• Utilizing a unique acoustic blend never heard previously, the Aaron O’Rourke Trio has made a fine debut recording that is sure to please old and new grass fans alike.

  David Grisman

  Unique, Fans, Acoustics

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• It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

  Voltaire

  Father, Book, Atheism

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• From American Idol to The Matrix participatory media - where old and new media converge by involving fans - is influencing our culture by creating new forms of interactive storytelling. Yet by enabling people to participate in such various media they can converge as a crowd to alter the story to create new modes of engagement, some not necessarily endorsed by the creator - or the brands that back them.

  Henry Jenkins

  Media, Idols, Creating

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• Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to Manhattan, Brighton Beach and Bellevue, Michael Alenyikov lays out a series of compelling arguments for brotherhood between brothers, between lovers, between men from an old country. Alenyikov confronts big subjects—illness and madness, sex and love in the age of AIDS, old and new world values, a fallen wall, the metaphysics of survival, the march of generations.

  Carolyn Cooke

  Country, Beach, Brother

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• Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.

  Louise Erdrich

  Taken, Rope, Tribes

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• The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America--the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring's Straits.

  Eugene Sue

  Ocean, Book, Ice

  Eugène Sue (1940). “The Wandering Jew”

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• Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Squares, Cities, Symbolism

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• To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.

  William Blackstone

  Law, Evil, Sorcery

  William Blackstone (2016). “Commentaries on the Laws of England - Of Public Wrongs”, p.39, Oxford University Press

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• We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.

  Pope Francis

  Peace, Freedom, Men

  "Pope Francis declares holy war on terror in Vatican Easter Mass service" by Louie Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. April 5, 2015.

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• I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

  Cheryl Mendelson

  Writing, Rocks, Opera

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• We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.

  Thomas Paine

  Law, Religion, Doctrine

  Thomas Paine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1834). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.241

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• This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire

  Joe Scarborough

  War, Media, Brave

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• The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.

  Richard Cecil

  Bible, Schemes, New Testament

  Richard Cecil, Josiah PRATT (the Elder.) (1854). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition”, p.110

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• There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel... Now, what free inquiry, when a writer must surely encounter the risk of fine or imprisonment for adducing any argument for investigating the divine authority of those books?

  John Adams

  Christian, Country, Inspiration

  Thomas Jefferson, John Adams (2006). “"Ye Will Say I Am No Christian": The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values”

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• Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.

  Eliza Hittman

  Brooklyn, World, Tension

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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