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It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future. Louise Leakey
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We have completed our mission to the EU, now we are on our way to the Balkans. Our ancestors went on horse back, we are going by plane. Abdullah Gul
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it. Kate Forsyth
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Misers are no fun to live with but they make great ancestors Tom Snyder
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My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South. Greg Iles
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Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees. Tristram Stuart
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My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave. Paul Robeson
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This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. Cory Booker
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My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.' Luanne Rice
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We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together. John Pearson
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The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths. Marguerite Gardiner
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I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love. Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum. Alan Titchmarsh
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Unless there's a reason to re-open ancient history, we should move on, Harvey Pitt
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Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it. S. Jay Olshansky
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I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it's all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway. Sarah Monette
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If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights. Theodore William Richards
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Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced. George Will
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The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons. David Sedaris
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My dream was to draw for 'The Beano.' When I was 10 years old, I started drawing cartoon strips with 'The Beano' in mind. I lived in that world. You own a comic, it's yours and adults don't understand it. You could pile them up under the bed, and if you were off school ill, you'd go through them all. Nick Park
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[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit. Benedict Cumberbatch
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We would run these cartoons the same day as they would publish them. Flemming Rose
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When I was an adolescent, Tahiti was a paradise. I made up my mind to settle there someday. I was going to be a seaman like Melville, but the Great Depression put me to work as a cartoonist to support the family. William Steig
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Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how it evolves over time more quickly than we can with a form like the novel. Robert Mankoff
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Let us never demonize or give up on those who disagree with us. We don't want to become like the right-wing talk-show hosts, hammering our adversaries into cartoon characters and denying their humanity. Bill Clinton
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I did all sorts of cartoons and stuff. And every once in a while I still do. It's rare, but it happens. Brady Corbet
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Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests. Twyla Tharp
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We didn't want to reinvent ourselves with the new album. We felt that we had carved our own turf on the first record and we wanted to take everything we did and make it better, ... Version 2.0. Butch Vig
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She's been a pioneer because she hasn't played the woman card. She's stuck to her guns and carved a proven track record. Roger Germann
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The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to - you're supposed to be dead, for one thing. Debbie Harry
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We send professionals to the original sites to source jade articles, all of which are designed and carved by skilled local craftsmen. Ye Ling
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The dates aren't carved in stone, but we feel we can pretty much hold tight to the dates we've laid down. Gary Mills
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Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has been cut up and carved away. It says, 'This is the ultimate polis, through which humans move like nematodes.' Will Self
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I come from a family of painters. My dad Ken is still a working artist. His dad used to paint as a hobby, and my great grandfather carved ships' figureheads. I discovered quite early on I had talent, but like all abilities it needed work and dedication. Alan Reed
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For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time. George Sutherland
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love. Eddie Trunk
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We're not going to tell people to hide in a cave and only come out at night. It's not realistic. James Spencer
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You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map. Dick Vitale
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We're not going to cave in to the excessive demands of certain powers, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable. William Stone
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I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself. Colin Morgan
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Cracks make caves collapse. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Mr. Cave obviously has a huge investment in this land, and he can't sit on it forever. William Burns
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Sometimes when I'm in the studio I feel so much but don't know how to express it. You're just like in a cave - life goes on without you. Miley Cyrus
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No cave is deep enough to escape the patient justice of America, John Ashcroft
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There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing. Charles Dickens
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Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. Charles Dickens
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There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea. Charles Dickens
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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. Charles Dickens
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It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments. Charles Dickens
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How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise. Charles Caleb Colton
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Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend. Charles Caleb Colton
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Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. Charles Caleb Colton
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Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it. Charles Caleb Colton
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Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries. Jamie Cullum
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If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing. Mitch Kapor
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People are learning that they can decorate their homes well using items from a thrift store or consignment shop. They can find a lot of things. Used furniture doesn't have the negative connotation it once did. Kim Kipping
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When we weren't scoring early in the game, Drew kept us in it. We made a few a plays there for him. He mixed his pitches well. He's a competitor. He's not an overpowering guy, but he's got good stuff. Jim Gaylor
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We need the quarterbacks. It's a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing - the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses - we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline. John Madden
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We're grateful because it was time, in our opinion, that someone drew a hard line the way she has. Hadi Jawad
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The process has worked extremely well and Republicans support it. When the Legislature drew the lines, there was nothing but lawsuits, acrimony and delay. Chris Vance
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Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin. George Herbert
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When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot at a tank... but we drew the line at shooting at people, with blood splattering everywhere. Nolan Bushnell
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From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second. George Lois
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When they drew at our ground early in the season, I was impressed with them. It was one of the few games we didn't look like winning. Deryn Brace
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Those games drew a lot of people; the fans loved every minute of it. Bob Feller
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Thank goodness my education was neglected. Beatrix Potter
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When I was little, I used to feel a lot of pressure. Before matches, I'd want to throw up. But now, I've adapted. I do get homesick sometimes, but I have to remember why I am there and what I have to do to go pro. Lauren Herring
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making provisions for people in nursing homes or hospitals to get them out so they are out of harm's way and don't need to be rescued. Michael Chertoff
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I love helping people put their homes in order. Tempestt Bledsoe
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There are the ones who have a lot of land and want to be annexed because they want the sewer to make the land more valuable and the lots smaller. Then there are the people with homes with working septic tanks that don't see why they should pay to hook into a sewer system they don't intend to use. Jack Campbell
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What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes. Robert Reich
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Yards have always sold homes and they always will. Ryan Thompson
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We are looking at that what can we do for people who had homes nearby, who want to work but don't have a home to go back to at night. Allard Beutel
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But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.' Gabriel Mann
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There is a softer, romantic tough by some of the prints and by the colors. It's not harsh. Some is body-conscious. Some is completely fluid. Karl Lagerfeld
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So there are prints that look kind of geometric, but it's kind of a diamond, computerized tone ... with shades that look like light, Miuccia Prada
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It was a joy-of-celebration piece, and the first time I put it out at a show, it sold, ... I never had any prints made. Joan Rankin
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As a filmmaker, you complete a film you have spent years obsessively making, and you know the release prints will never look quite the same; prints get scratched and dirty. Asif Kapadia
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Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. Charles Dickens
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The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end. Alan Rickman
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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo. Alan Rickman
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I like it when stories are left open. Alan Rickman
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This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all? Alan Moore
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Everybody has their story to tell. Alan Moore
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I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion. Alan Ball
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Our stories are the tellers of us. Chris Cleave
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We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us. Chris Cleave
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We stuffed the Australians in their own backyard. Ross Davenport
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I thought he showed he was ready,'' Walls said. Sam Brandon
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There were no ceilings. The walls were collapsed. John B. Keane
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears. Geoffrey Chaucer