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Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

~Andrew Weil

Topics: Activities Am Amazed Ancient Been Behaviors Changed Day Directly Doing Downtown Each Each Day Filled Homo How Human Lives Long Most Other People Physical Principally Quickly Roughly Talking Things Through Travel Two Years I Am

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I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.

~Andy Serkis

Topics: Ancient Forms Future Link Storytelling Together Want

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I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.

~Ang Lee

Topics: Ancient Because Destiny Elastic Green Keep Knocking Light Name Skill Sword Took Until Very Well You

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Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Ancient Ancient Greeks Cinema Dark Dream Dreaming Gather Greeks Like Mysteries Participating Same Sit Strangers Together Unison Used

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As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Alone Ancient Ancient Times Coexistence Even Happy Leads Neither Poor Possibilities Recognized Rich Rise Rule Since Times Two Up Very Wealth

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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

~Anita Brookner

Topics: Ancient Being Bold Favor Fortune Gift Gods Good Good Fortune Win You

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I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

~Anne Rice

Topics: Am Ancient Beginning Greek Languages Read Study I Am

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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Ancient Boots Brutal Civilized Colonists Come Delicate Entirely Forgotten Good Heavy Highly India Nation Often Over Past Relations Remote Sensitive Though Trample Tribes Where Whose

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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Ancient Back Been Came Devoted Freedom Give Her Home India Life Make My Own Own Purpose Since I Came

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Prayer is a method practised from ancient days, so it's very important for us to maintain a spiritual connection, something that people, gladiators would do years ago, so we're just maintaining that routine.

~Anthony Joshua

Topics: Ancient Connection Days Important Just Maintain Maintaining Method People Prayer Routine Something Spiritual Us Very Would Years Years Ago

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