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Archaeologists have been digging up thousands of graves of people called Scythians by the Greeks. They turn out to be people whose women fought, hunted, rode horses, used bows and arrows, just like the men.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: Arrows Been Bows Digging Fought Graves Greeks Horses Hunted Just Like Men Out People Rode Thousands Turn Up Used Whose Women

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I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.

~Albert Hammond, Jr.

Topics: Build Constantly Deep Digging Explain Fall Grab How Kind Know Like Right Something Starts Them Thing Things Working You

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My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

~Alex Haley

Topics: Back Black Brown Digging Feel Feet Hope Make Man May Me Own People Red Roots Start Tall White Would Yellow

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The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.

~Andrew Marr

Topics: Able Access Bloggers Business Cannot Digging Documents Easy Encourage Funding Important Journalists Official People Politicians Power Replaced Who

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The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

~Anita Desai

Topics: Ancestors Back Backwards Begins Believe Book Digging Ends Family Family History Felt Give Going History Impression Past Tunnel Visits I Believe I Believe In

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Yeah, I've always been a big Chunky Soup guy. I'm digging all the new Chunky Maxx flavors, which are packed with protein. Specifically, the black angus beef.

~Antonio Brown

Topics: Always Beef Been Big Black Digging Flavors Guy New Packed Protein Soup Specifically Which Yeah

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When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging.

~Apollonius Of Tyana

Topics: Achievements Complete Crossed Digging Having Him His Neither Nor Praise Review Sail See Through Will I Can

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One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.

~Ashley Monroe

Topics: About Around Cool Digging Favorite Favorite Things Find Forced Get Giddy Listen Old Records Sit Them Thing Things Through Trying Whole You

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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits - I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'

~Bat For Lashes

Topics: Being Did Digging Frightened Get Had Hairy Like Me One Time Out People Photo Photo Shoot Really Shoot Time Were Where

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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

~Bear Grylls

Topics: Deep Digging Every Firing Great Magic Man Mode Pleasure Power Raw Reserve Time Well Wild

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