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The discovery of a single skull of a child, in such a remote location within the cave system adds mystery as to how these many remains came to be in these remote, dark spaces of the Rising Star Cave system, it is just another riddle among many that surround this fascinating extinct human relative. – Lee Berger	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There's a big meta question -- to what extent do economic gains actually filter into political behavior. That is the riddle. – Mark Muro	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The ring ... really helped us to solve this riddle. – Chris Casey	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. – Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1939	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The discovery of a single skull of a child, in such a remote location within the cave system adds mystery as to how these many remains came to be in these remote, dark spaces of the Rising Star Cave system, it is just another riddle among many that surround this fascinating extinct human relative.

– Lee Berger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's a big meta question -- to what extent do economic gains actually filter into political behavior. That is the riddle.

– Mark Muro

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The ring ... really helped us to solve this riddle.

– Chris Casey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

– Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1939

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

– Winston Churchill

added by anonymous
14 years ago

There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

– Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

– Winston Churchill

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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