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I wanted to restore an ancient house in Kent, and that's what I did. It was a heap - this Tudor building with the beams painted lime green, so hideous. And I had this idea that I'd love the small village life, with the Range Rover and the dogs and baking cookies for the Y.W.C.A. But then it got so boring.

~Christine Mcvie

Topics: Ancient Baking Boring Building Cookies Did Dogs Got Green Had Heap Hideous House Idea Kent Life Lime Love Painted Range Restore Rover Small Then Village Wanted

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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.

~Christopher Alexander

Topics: Alive Ancient Anyone Beautiful Beautiful Places Buildings Except Faces Feel Following Form Great Hills Lead Looks Make Our Places Possible See Themselves Towns Trees Way Where Which Who Will You Yourself

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Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags, and crazy people.

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Topics: Ancient Bums Community Crazy Crazy People Descendants Holy Immense Modern People Poets Storytellers Traveling

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We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.

~Clark M. Clifford

Topics: Absurdity Almost Ancient Barbaric Dance Going Kind Now Through Ultimate War

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Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.'

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Ancient Any Businesses Capitalism Capitalists Drink Drop Eager Entrepreneurs Even Everywhere Financing Get Investors Like Nor Seem Sound Water Who

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Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Ancient Bare Black Deadwood Extremity Forms Granite Hills Land Lies More Northern Rugged Smooth Southern Time Tip Where

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Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

~Clyde Tombaugh

Topics: Ancient Based Bible Concepts Fit Lot Mythology Science Unfortunately

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My grandpa was a geologist, and I always had this fascination with not only earth sciences but ancient history.

~Cole Sprouse

Topics: Always Ancient Earth Fascination Geologist Grandpa Had History Only Sciences

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I can't imagine seeing Batman in black and white. It was such a colourful TV series. I know. I'm ancient. It wasn't abnormal to be without a television in those days. People who had colour were special.

~Colin Firth

Topics: Abnormal Ancient Batman Black Black And White Colour Days Had Imagine Know People Seeing Series Special Television Those Tv Tv Series Were White Who Without

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The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

~Colin Quinn

Topics: Ancient Ancient Greeks Course Either Examined Fascinating First Found Greeks Life Living Out Say Tell Were Worth Worth Living You

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