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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

~George H. W. Bush

Topics: Ancient Away Blowing Blown Blown Away Breeze Day Dictator Era Fact Freedom Heart Ideas In Fact Leaves Lifeless Like Man New Old Over Passing Reborn Refreshed Seems Totalitarian Tree World

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The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.

~George Lloyd

Topics: Ancient Ancient Greeks Greeks Knack Myths Truths Wrapping

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The goal of reanimation research is not to make perfect living copies of extinct organisms, nor is it meant to be a one-off stunt in a laboratory or zoo. Reanimation is about leveraging the best of ancient and synthetic DNA.

~George M. Church

Topics: About Ancient Best Copies Extinct Goal Laboratory Living Make Meant Meant To Be Nor Organisms Perfect Research Stunt Synthetic Zoo Dna

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I would argue that we're not limited by actual DNA. You can re-create the ancient DNA by looking at the genomes of existing animals.

~George M. Church

Topics: Actual Ancient Animals Argue Existing Limited Looking Would You Dna

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In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

~George Papandreou

Topics: Ancient Greece Market Politics Were

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The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

~George Santayana

Topics: Ancient City Like Mind Pilgrim Renaissance

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Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.

~George Will

Topics: Ancient Baseball Codes Common Common Law Decisions Derives Distilled Game Important Judges Just Law Life Most Opponents Purpose Rather Respect Rules Show Than The Most Important Unchanged Unwritten

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But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.

~Georges Cuvier

Topics: After Ancient Changes Earth Layers Limited New Present Responsible Revolutions Sea State Strata Upsetting Which

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