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• Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Moon, Technology, Men

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• The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

  Jon Meacham

  Reality, Class, Achievement

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• For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.

  Harper Lee

  Son, Army, Blood

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and rather spectacular, and I thought I would carry them around with me, like the relic of a dead lover, till they wore off of their own accord.

  Sylvia Plath

  Blood, Two, Touching

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.60, Hamilton Books

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• For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.

  Thomas Sowell

  Past, Hands, Age

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.118, Basic Books

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• The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up by devoting ourselves to the study of the actual state of the living world, and to those monuments of the past in which the relics of the animate creation of former ages are best preserved and least mutilated by the hand of time.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Past, Issues

  Sir Charles Lyell (1863). “The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man: With Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation”, p.470

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• Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

  Cody Lundin

  Mainstream Society, Self, Years

  Cody Lundin (2007). “When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes”, p.57, Gibbs Smith

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• What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are taken out of context and how we're forced to view them as objects, as relics, as sculpture- static. But what's interesting is what it allows me to do in my head in terms of imagining what the possibilities are or imagining the role in which they played within a particular culture which I'm fascinated by.

  Nick Cave

  Art, Taken, Thinking

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• Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Memories, Past

  "Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice".

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• Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.

  Paul Robeson

  Ballet, Heritage, Steps

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• I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving into the past and reaching into the future simultaneously.

  Betye Saar

  Art, Memories, Future

  Betye Saar, James Christen Steward, University of Michigan. Museum of Art, Norton Museum of Art (2005). “Betye Saar: extending the frozen moment”, University of California Press

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• There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Past, People

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• I no longer knew whether it was raindrops or my own tears that were flowing down my cheeks, and I hated to have to drag along this relic of a sniveling child.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Children, Tears, Raindrops

  Ingrid Betancourt (2010). “Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.

  Adrienne Rich

  Keys, Doors, Tolerance

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.137, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

  Susan Sontag

  Nature, America, Progress

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.59, Macmillan

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• For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of 40 +, there is a balding, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year-old waitress.

  Andy Rooney

  Breakup, Smart, Yellow

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• One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is a relic of the violence of this explosion. This big bang idea seemed to me to be unsatisfactory even before detailed examination showed that it leads to serious difficulties.

  Fred Hoyle

  Life, Science, Ideas

  Fred Hoyle (1960). “The nature of the universe”

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• He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

  Fannie Flagg

  Fading Away, Yards, Gone

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.355, Random House

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• Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs!
  Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things!
  Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine:
  The past, the present, and the future time.
  Thy reminiscences transport the soul
  To memory?s Paradise?its future goal.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Dream, Sweet, Memories

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• We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had radically changed the world, because he had remained with us. As we walked about the city, or traveled to different cities and countries, it was not the beautiful and interesting things around us that attracted us. Not even Rome's wonderful monuments and precious relics seemed so important. Rather, what gave a sense of continuity to our journeying through the world for Jesus, was His Eucharistic presence in the tabernacles we found wherever we went.

  Chiara Lubich

  Beautiful, Country, Jesus

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• Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Philosophy, Government, Political

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• Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

  Lord Byron

  Departed, Fallen, Immortal

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 73

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• Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form: not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.

  William Nicholson

  Past, Eight, Way

  "A class divide" by William Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?

  Crystal Eastman

  Civilization, Vices, Connections

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.

  William Friedkin

  Antiques, Want, Painting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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