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I believe there’s no such thing as a conflict that can’t be ended. They’re created and sustained by human beings. They can be ended by human beings. No matter how ancient the conflict, no matter how hateful, no matter how hurtful, peace can prevail. – George J. Mitchell	added by anonymous 9 years ago
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are. – Christopher Alexander	added by anonymous 9 years ago
It can be interesting to study ancient philosophy, but more as a kind of accident report than to teach you anything useful. – Paul Graham	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. – Northrop Frye	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth. – Francis Picabia	added by anonymous 10 years ago
This means we must subject the machinetechnologyto control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money. The search of the young today is more specific than the ancient search for the Holy Grail. The search of the youth today is for ways and means to make the machineand the vast bureaucracy of the corporation state and of government that runs that machinethe servant of man. That is the revolution that is coming. That revolutionnow that the people hold the residual powers of governmentneed not be a repetition of 1776. It could be a revolution in the nature of an explosive political regeneration. It depends on how wise the Establishment is. If, with its stockpile of arms, it resolves to suppress the dissenters, America will face, I fear, an awful ordeal. – William O. Douglas	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. – Italo Calvino	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark. – William Makepeace Thackeray	added by anonymous 10 years ago
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. – Hannah Arendt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought. – Edith Hamilton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them -- the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings. – Thomas Merton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce. – Lenny Bruce	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. – Niccolò Machiavelli	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new! – Augustine of Hippo	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. – Vladimir Lenin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Late have I loved thee oh beauty so ancient yet so new – Saint Augustine	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago, he would've thought they were birds or angels from another world. – Dejan Stojanovic	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. – Ovid	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. – Stephen Jay Gould	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A very ancient and fish-like smell. – William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 2 scene 2	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. – Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller. – Isak Dinesen, (Karen Blixen)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. – Robert Lynd	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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