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Everything that occurs in the world, in every epoch, has something that corresponds to it in ancient times. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The world revolves like ancient women, gathering fuel in vacant lots. — T. S. Eliot

Astrology's roots lie in an ancient world-view which perceived the universe as a single living organism, animated by divine order and intelligence. — Liz Greene

His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives. — Andrew Roberts

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language. — Oriana Fallaci

The ancient writers were not merely convinced of Moses' existence: they saw him as one of the formative figures of world history. — Paul Johnson

There were no other groups in the ancient world going around claiming to be the human race. — N. T. Wright

There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited. — Elizabeth Peters

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced. — William Whewell

Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law. — Gautama Buddha

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world. — Richard Allen

In ancient Ireland the soul had but to stretch out its arms to fill them with beauty. Now all manner of ugliness besets the world. — Orna Ross

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war. — Menachem Begin

To change the world , we need to combine Ancient wisdom with new technologies — Paulo Coelho

Society therefore is an ancient as the world. — Voltaire

The great dragon was thrown out - the ancient serpent ... the Devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. Revelation 12:9 — Beth Moore

On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world. — P. E. Cleator

An ancient Jewish teaching holds that to save a life is to save the whole world. — Sam Bourne

Every position in life is balanced by creating a harmony between the inner self and the surrounding world. — Hellmut Wilhelm

The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water. — Rachel Carson

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. — Arthur Erickson

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence. — Charlie Chaplin

The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox and Christianity. — Adolf Hitler

[Christians] are people such as the world has not seen hitherto, and their teaching is of a kind that the world has not heard up to this time ... — Henryk Stanczyk

The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness. — Wasif Ali Wasif

That's what I want to do, ultimately: figure out a way to get the world engaged with discovery and protecting these ancient sites. — Sarah Parcak

I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets ... the ancient world like that was pretty astounding. — Leonardo DiCaprio

In this world, hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed. This is the ancient and eternal law. — Jack Kornfield

wage-labor contracts in the ancient world were primarily a matter of the rental of slaves - a — David Graeber

The world will not change by our position in the Universe. Actions change when beliefs change; collective actions and beliefs change the world. — Matthew A. Petti

The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate 'residues' of the ancient traditional sciences. — Rene Guenon

Ancient wisdom collides with modern crises, equipping believers to image Christ in a world entranced with salvific knock-offs. — Owen Strachan

In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem. — Elie Metchnikoff

The Truth is always trying to reveal itslef to us in our physical world. — Matthew A. Petti

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. — Leon Kass

There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament. — F.F. Bruce

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S. — David Rockefeller

The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds. — Fernand Braudel

Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

In this world,
hate never dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. - The Buddha — Gautama Buddha

In all his years he had not seen one as ancient as this, so obviously belonging to a world far older than his own. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth. — Saint John Chrysostom

This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead. — Chuck Palahniuk

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world. — John Ortberg

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness. — Dewitt Bodeen

I at least know what I am and do not try to hide it from the rest of the world. Do you know what you are? Because you can only be one thing at a time. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world. — N. T. Wright

There was a mysterious chasm between this island and the greater world, just like there was between old and young, ancient and new. — Ann Brashares

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies. — Dean Koontz

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. — Benjamin Disraeli