#ancient

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After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields.


Jean-Marie Le Pen


#ancient #because #exactly #fields #like

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.


Nia Vardalos


#daughters #greece #many #sons #ways

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.


Ai Weiwei


#ancient #apparent #aspect #athletics #cities

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.


E. O. Wilson


#earth #eroding #human #permanently

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.


Tom Hiddleston


#centuries #danger #deaths #drama #expanding

I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful.


Nicolas Cage


#austria #beautiful #because #celtic #definitely

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.


Marilyn French


#ancient greeks #delusion #even #greeks #insanity

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.


Stephen Gardiner


#architectural #center #civilization #concepts #culture

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


#baths #conjecture #constituted #diana #fountain

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.


Stephen Gardiner


#ancient greeks #arms #center #circle #described