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“How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.”

Giving Should Christ Natural Christianity Principles Taught Down And Errors Ancient Mixing

Author:Olympia Brown

“Shall hope prevail where clamorous hate is rife, Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have place Amid the tumult of reverberant strife 'Twixt ancient creeds, 'twixt race and ancient race, That mars the grave, glad purposes of life, Leaving no refuge save thy succoring face?”

Dream Faces Purpose Hate Hope Race Sweet Leaving Ancient Glad Graves Purpose Of Life Creeds Refuge Mars Strife Sweet Love Tumult

Book:Struggle for independence: Indian freedom fighters. Sarojini Naidu

Source: Struggle for independence: Indian freedom fighters. Sarojini Naidu

“Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.”

People Problem Psychology Solutions Ancient Crowds Fables Sphinx

Book:The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

Source: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.”

Christian Ideals Ancient Universalism

Book:Evolution and Ethics

Source: Evolution and Ethics

“When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.”

World Country Past Percent Ancient China Destroyed Links Emperor Ancient World Alexandria

Author:Steve Berry

“Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.”

Has Beens Enough Play Community Roles Essentials Embrace Ancient Storytelling Fortunate Honorable Tribes Wholeheartedly

Author:Russell Banks

“Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.”

Ifs Ideas Problem Light Music Is Reflection Ancient New Music

Author:George Crumb

“Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.”

“If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.”

Ifs Looks Stories Young Used Fantasy Civilization Train Ancient Ancient Civilizations Fantasy Stories

Author:David Gemmell

“The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.”

Dream Death Return Ancient Flesh Dust

Author:John Mellencamp

“And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.”

Nature Ancient Forests Spots Hills Sunny Greenery

Book:The Ancient Mariner and Selected Poems (EasyRead Large Edition)

Source: The Ancient Mariner and Selected Poems (EasyRead Large Edition)

“Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff.”

Ifs Wish Grief Advice Lovers Towns Ancient Scotland Scots Picturesque

Author:William Topaz McGonagall

“Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly succession the monarchs of the past and the ancient river streams and savannahs wherein they flourished. The rocks usually hide their story in the most difficult and inaccessible places.”

Stories Earth Past Science Difficult Rocks Spring Rivers Ancient Streams Regions Lamps Succession Orderly Monarchs Deserted Lifeless Inaccessible Savannah Aladdin's Lamp

Author:Roy Chapman Andrews

“The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude of dogmatic barriers by a single stroke, and to arouse a spirit of rebellion against all ancient authorities whose positive and unauthenticated statements were contradicted by modern science.”

Source: Memories of My Life

“And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.”

Knows Science Ancient Posterity

Author:Pierre de Fermat

“Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.”

Dream Running Left Behinds Ancient Ghost Gates Left Behind Adages Corridors

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.”

Believe Universal Ancient Quotations

Author:James Boswell

“Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.”

Mind Century Ancient Worms Furniture Solidity

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe by means of green technology... Green technology means we do not live in cans but adapt our plants and our animals and ourselves to live wild in the universe as we find it... When life invades a new habitat, she never moves with a single species. She comes with a variety of species, and as soon as she is established, her species spread and diversify further. Our spread through the galaxy will follow her ancient pattern.”

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