"History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television."
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"To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country."
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"Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure."
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"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."
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"Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into a moth, they sir, had time-and you have no time!"
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"Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient."
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"Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought."
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"Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now."
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"An ancient custom obtains force of nature."
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"Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches."
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"Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public."
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"I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness."
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"Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense."
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"I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding."
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"The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom"
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"Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals."
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"Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual."
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"No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live."
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