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The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.


Edward Dahlberg
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I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.
Rhys Ifans
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A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
Ray Bradbury
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.


H. P. Lovecraft
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Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.


Arthur Keith
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Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.


John G. Schmitz
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No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard.
Gene Roddenberry
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I think with 'Modern Family,' you'll struggle to find anything better. It's brilliantly, brilliantly written.
Brendan O'Carroll
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Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.
Zoltan Kodaly
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.


Warren Ellis
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The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.


William Morris Hunt
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.


Stendhal
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While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful.
Tom Brokaw
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
Zooey Deschanel
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There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.


John Buchanan Robinson
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What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!
Will Self
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.


Hans Jonas
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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.


Adolf Hitler