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I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous. I've always preferred the Brothers Grimm faery tales to the Disney fairy tales. Julie Kagawa

Love Dangerous Thought Ancient Tricky Brothers Tales Fairy Fairy Tales Always Were Fey Stories Preferred Disney Capricious Who Creatures

My first major championships was in 2005, which makes me feel ancient. I'm really proud of playing in all the tournaments, yet I can have all the caps in the world, but there's no point if you don't have a gold medal. Karen Carney

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nothing Thoroughness Possess Ancient Has-Been Would Poetry Written Been Truly Which Against Skill Convincing Vigor

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Time Become Fragments Ancient Modern Many Origin Works

Anthropologists believe women were among the skilled boxers of the ancient, sport-loving Minoan culture that flourished on Crete until 1100 B.C. The boxing booths at English fairs featured women in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Katherine Dunn

Culture Women Believe Ancient Booths Featured Until Boxers Boxing Were Centuries Skilled English Among Early

When I visited Israel for the first time, in 2014, on a trip sponsored by the National Religious Broadcasters, I went to the Museum of The Bible with our group. There, we saw the most ancient and original versions of both the Hebrew and Christian bibles. Katie Pavlich

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me. Kazuo Ishiguro

War Time Family Me History Thought Yesterday Think Our Ancient Seems Like Arrived Years Years Ago England Now

Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure. Ken Goldberg

Value Back Ancient Entertain Date Primarily Renaissance Were Reflecting Greeks Artificial Leisure Placed Chinese Creatures Designed

If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the stories of anything from an ancient Egyptian battle to the early life of Paul Gascoigne. Kevin Macdonald

Life Battle Hate Dramatic Television Ancient Tell Reconstruction Tendency Unstoppable Modern Egyptian Stories Anything Paul March Early Early Life

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream. Lafcadio Hearn

Stream Way Ancient Silver River Heaven Fancy Chinese Milky Way Luminous

The ku-magic is a very ancient magic. It predates Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. Laurence Yep

Ancient Magic Buddhism Very Confucianism

The Gobi is in many ways like the old American West, filled with abandoned hamlets and buildings, traces of disappeared peoples. Across its oceanic blond grass, horses and the black silhouettes of camels move languidly, as if they are the only inhabitants. Ancient Turkic nomads left enigmatic petroglyphs carved into boulders 2,000 years ago. Lawrence Osborne

People Old Black Grass Ways Ancient Abandoned Carved Only Horses Disappeared Like Traces Buildings Camels West Years Years Ago Blond Left American Move Across Inhabitants Many Filled Enigmatic

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears. Lewis Thomas

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years. Lillian Smith

I was born and spent my first five years in Chester, an ancient city that retains some of its Roman walls and fortifications and contains a great medieval cathedral, as well as Tudor, Stuart and early 19th century architecture. Visiting these things was free, and my parents - who had little money - made the most of this. Linda Colley

Great Architecture Money Walls Made Free Parents First Spent Ancient Visiting City Some Born Stuart Had Contains Most Cathedral Well Years Five Roman Little Century Little Money Who Things Early Medieval

From the very beginning, Americans have exhibited a taste for expansion, an appetite for empire. One of the fundamental reasons for this is very clear. Like every other western empire that has ever existed, Americans may claim to have inherited the mantle of ancient Rome. Linda Colley

Beginning Every Other Claim Ancient Ancient Rome Clear Empire Like Existed Western Very Expansion American Taste May Rome Mantle Inherited Reasons Appetite Fundamental Ever

In ancient times, we were users; we used the commodities in accordance to our needs. Using is not sufficient for the modern market; it needs consumers. Consuming means consuming things much more than the natural need of humanity or of any living being. Lobsang Tenzin

Needs Natural Humanity Living Market Our Ancient Ancient Times More Consumers Consuming Were Accordance Times Than Modern Any Commodities Being Much Means Used Users Using Sufficient Things Need

It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle. Martin Amis

Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution. Martin Filler

History Long Revolution Other Took Ancient Temples Architectural Colonies Long History Impetus Advances Columns Idea New Industrial Industrial Revolution Although Parts Were Shipped North North Africa Stone Africa Where Romans Elements Technological Numbered

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