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Spying has always gone on since ancient times.


Vladimir Putin
Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
Orson F. Whitney
Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.
Lilly Singh
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In Germany, a new sect shall be born which shall renew ancient pagan times.


Nostradamus
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Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
Robert Morgan
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We've all heard these statistics that teachers at times go into their pockets in the tune of several hundred dollars a year to pay for school supplies and materials. It's not normal.
Kimora Lee Simmons
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I like to write from midnight to dawn with great stores of candy and Red Bull laid in... I'm not sure why I have the work habits of a 20-year-old coder, but no matter how many times I set up a more reasonable schedule, I always fall back to this.
Jenny Offill
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Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust.
Antony Gormley
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It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
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To learn to do backflips and front flips, you had to fall and bump your head a couple times. I've been doing them since I was a little one, though. Just something I've enjoyed doing, just flip.
Marshawn Lynch
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Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.


Rudolf Nureyev
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I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep.


J. D. Pardo
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.


Olivia Wilde
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Of course I've had my moments of wanting to go back to Scotland, and I almost did a couple of times, but other things just came up.
Peter Capaldi
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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Actors are smart. They have to feel safe enough to fall and to get back up. My job is to make sure they don't get hurt.
Scott Ellis
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A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.
James Patterson
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I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That's the amazing thing about the grace of God.
Tim Tebow
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It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.
Paul Theroux
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