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"The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies."
"I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend."
"Asleep in lap of legends old."
"To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle."
"Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!"
"Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason."
"I think that's the beauty of the current setup, is that Legends is meant to be a bit of a revolving door."
"I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae."
"The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends."
"The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself."
"In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd."
"Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend."
"Man they treat me like a legend, am I really this cold? I’m really too young to be feeling this old."
"I want to be a legend, like Celine Dion."
"The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish."
"There is nothing like playing at Wimbledon; you can feel the footprints of the legends of the game-men and women-that have graced those courts."
"According to legend. Telford is so dull that the by-pass was built before the town."
"Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting."
"Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies"
"Beating a legend is a very good feeling, but internally I was processing the realization that I could compete with anyone."
