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“On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.”

World May Found Dying Civilization Glory Remains Ancient One Time Mars Crumbling Ancient Civilizations Testifying

Author:P. E. Cleator

“....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.”

Earth Tools Method Fundamentals Remains Ancient Ritual Ploughing

Author:Patience Strong

“You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.”

Wells Stills Ends Self Light Joy Hate Grows Sides Dark Love You Harder Remains Ancient Witness You Choose Arrogant Puzzles Dark Side Loathing Self Loathing Life Or Death Dark Life

Author:Glenn Beck

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”

Political Politics Freedom Revolution Capitalism Remains Slave Ancient Communism Greek Owners Republic Communist Tyrants Individualism Capitalist Ancient Greek Slave Owners

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.”

Care Earth Nature Responsibility Garden Remains Environmental Ancient Worthy Cherish Renewal

Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact, can survive natural catastrophe, neglect, and even mistreatment, has always filled me with wonder. Sometimes in museums, looking at a humble piece of pottery from ancient Persia or Pompeii, or a finely wrought page from a medieval illuminated manuscript toiled over by a nameless monk, or a primitive tool with a carved handle, I am moved to tears. The unknown life of the maker is evanescent in its brevity, but the work of his or her hands and heart remains.”

“The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains. --Doroga”

Choices Force Grows Causes Common Enemy All Things Stronger Remains Unions Ancient Wiser Joining

Book:Academ's Fury

Source: Academ's Fury

“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives. - Dr. Carl Sagan”

Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

“One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell.”

People Book Hard Modern Poet Remains Ancient

Author:Marguerite Yourcenar

“A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.”

Dream Summer Remains Ancient Warrior Grass All That Remains Thickets

Author:Matsuo Basho