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The Ephesians took great pride in their temple, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Amazons had worshipped here, and the fabulously rich King Croesus built the original temple.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: Ancient Built Great Had Here King Original Pride Rich Seven Temple Took Wonders World Worshipped

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Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Ancient Christians Civilization Denomination Ethnic Groups Heir Least Minorities Muslims Proud Religious Spectrum Syria Ten Unique Various

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The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.

~Ai Weiwei

Topics: Against Ancient Apparent Aspect Athletics Cities Commercial Compete Competition Corporations Each Financial Follow Gain Games Highly How Most Olympic Olympic Games Other Seen Sport Through Today Traditions

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I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Affects Agree Ancient Anything Back Believe Fix Future Go Hindu Huge Illusion Life Modern Modern Science Now Oldest Past Philosophy Science Thing Time True You

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Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Ancient Does Education Head Help Idea Information Jamming Knowledge Mean Out Pull Rather Somebody Teach Themselves Us Within

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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

~Alan Rickman

Topics: Ancient Great Need Needs Stories Story Storyteller Thanks

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Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Ancient Arrived Before Being Changed Course Destructive Different Elephants Existence Fundamentally Human Living Long More Much Out Plane Predatory Scene Something Sustainable Way Worked World

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All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.

~Alexander Henry

Topics: Aftermath Ancient Before Confront Ever Fast Follows Frequently Harmless Hold Landmarks Must Nation Now Rendered See Shall Still Threaten Wake War

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The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those of us who still thrill to the smell of a library.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Ancient Comfort Entirely Library Media Never Perhaps Radically Smell Song Speech Still Theater Those Though Thrill Us Were Who Writing

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I think it's a false distinction to say that conversation and composition are separate. Because even as we speak, I'm seeing. Every interview is different, and I'm finding new ways to talk about ancient preoccupations. And I sometimes come on something that's immensely helpful and valuable. Plus I like the sensation of conversation.

~Allan Gurganus

Topics: About Ancient Because Come Composition Conversation Different Distinction Even Every False Finding Helpful Immensely Interview Like New New Ways Plus Say Seeing Sensation Separate Something Sometimes Speak Talk Think Valuable Ways I Think

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