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The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference. George Edmund Street

Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern. George Edward Woodberry

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In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled. George Papandreou

Politics Market Ancient Were Greece

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. George Santayana

Mind Ancient City Sedentary Like Renaissance Pilgrim

But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers. Georges Cuvier

Changes State Earth Ancient Responsible Layers New Limited Revolutions Upsetting After Which Sea Strata Present

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about. Giambattista Valli

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Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. Gilbert Murray

Great Reading Few Ancient Easy Easy Reading Greek Literature Works

There is a certain ancient civility about tailors that is welcome - especially in modern London, which is now very much an international city, not an English city. They're still a little vessel of Englishness in what is otherwise a pretty rambunctious place. Graydon Carter

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish. Gwyneth Paltrow

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient. Helen Mirren

You Nothing Ancient Seems

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West. Henri Pirenne

In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be ascertained. Henry Gray

Knowledge Anatomy Ancient Records Imperfect Trace Left Any Egyptians Ascertained

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another. Henry James Sumner Maine

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? Henry Louis Gates

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A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person. Howard Rheingold

You Phone Political Every Tree Ancient Call Person Form Organizing

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. Hu Shih

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Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style. Inga Muscio

Life Words Long Style Fall Own Ancient Evolve Having Never Taken Like Off Survive Done Planet Beliefs Chameleon

I am of the opinion that I am not a political writer, and, moreover, that as far as true literature is concerned, there actually are no political writers. I think that my writing is no more political than ancient Greek theatre. I would have become the writer I am in any political regime. Ismail Kadare

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If you look back throughout history from the ancient Egyptians onwards, most cultures started making clothing from a very basic premise: a single piece of cloth. Issey Miyake

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We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors. Jack Horner

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