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But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: Ancient Ancient Rome Attendant Back Beings Believe Believed Came Creativity Did Distant Divine Greece Happen Human Human Beings Ok People Reasons Rome Some Source Spirit Then Unknowable

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I think storytelling in general is how we really deeply know things. It's ancient.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Ancient Deeply General How Know Really Storytelling Things Think I Think

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Has Google appropriated the word 'search?' If so, I find it sad. Search is a deep human yearning, an ancient trope in the recorded history of human life.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Ancient Deep Find Google History Human Human Life Life Recorded Sad Search Word Yearning

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The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Ancient Christian Community Devastation Iraq Known Well Well Known

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Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.

~Emanuel Swedenborg

Topics: Able Ancient Ancient Times Angels Being Body Clothed Created Done Fact He In Fact Living Lord Man Most Speak Spirit Spirits Them Times While

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

~Enid Bagnold

Topics: Accusation Again Ageless Ancient Beneath Child Criticism Each Erupt Familiar Keep Luxury Manners Marriage May Other Ourselves Real Ridiculous Ring Up Wedding Wedding Ring Who Wildest

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I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.

~Erland Josephson

Topics: Am Ancient Bourgeoisie Class Experience Expressions Extraction Faces Few Human Human Experience International Jewish Language Poor Skills Some Swedish Timely Upper I Am

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The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.

~Ernest Thompson Seton

Topics: Ancient Between Cat Deadly Dog Easier Feud Foe Forgotten Fox North Prey Scarcity Snow Soft

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There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

~Eula Biss

Topics: About Ancient Child Desire Inevitable Protect Something Whatever You Your Your Child

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Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.

~Evan Sayet

Topics: About Ancient Care Humidity Jews Miami Worry

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