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Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals to watch, animal stories to read.

~Diane Ackerman

Topics: Ancestors Ancient Animal Animals Bone Cartoon Carved Cave Children Clutch Decorate Drew Give Homes Just Our Prints Read Stories Stuffed Walls Watch Wood

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While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people, they finally dropped it from judo.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Ancient Book Doing Dropped Fatal Finally Healthy Hold Kids Many Neck Other Other Kids Out People Playing Read So Many People Things Were While

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As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.

~Donald Johanson

Topics: Ancient Digging Experience Go Had Indian Midwest Number Opportunity Remains Southwest Undergraduate Up Villages

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Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

Topics: Action Ancient Behalf Democracy Educated Essential Force Get Ideals Journalism Our Public Still Take

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It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Ancient Back Brain Did Fun Going Helps Lifestyle Look Makes Miserable Nobody You

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A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

~Douglas Jerrold

Topics: Ancient Conservative Institution Look Man Moon New Old Old One Out Respect Who Will

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What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary.

~Douglas Lain

Topics: About Advertisement Ancient Any Anything Even Evoke Harmony Idea Likely Live Memory Necessary Pop Real Real Thing Social Soda Solid Thing Want Where World

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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Topics: Ancient Complex Find First First Things Get Human Manageable More Most Often Older Problem Process Proportion Rule Taking Things Which Wisdom

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When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves.

~Dylan Moran

Topics: Ancient Blowing Door Eyes Had Hair How Idea Latin Like Looked Men No Idea Opening Politicians Present Teachers Themselves Trees Walking Were Wrong Young

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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Ancient Earth Human Permanently

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