It is an ancient ordsprog

en It is an ancient practice that many of us don't think has a place in the modern world.

en The children of our community, inclusive of all of the children in our community, regardless of social status, deserve to be allowed to see and be close to, the renowned works of culture and art, both ancient and modern, from all around the world. I am proud to say that place will be here, at the Museum of Fine Arts at Cypress Creek.

en 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

en We embrace the idea -- advanced by both ancient philosophers and modern physicists -- that the world is one. Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.
  Marianne Williamson

en It tries to combine ancient ideas with modern ideas. But here the modern ideas are from the 12th century, and the ancient comes 3,000 years before that.

en They should become symbols of unity in the modern world, just as the original seven wonders were symbols of the ancient world.

en He stood bewildered, not appalled, on that dark shore which separates the ancient and the modern world. . . . He is power, passion, self-will personified.
  William Hazlitt

en To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.
  Bertrand Russell

en PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians
--who are Hogmies.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The Oriental Institute has played a key role in the exploration of ancient Nubia. As early as 1905, James Henry Breasted, the founder of the institute, led two expeditions to Nubia, where he was one of the first modern researchers to document the monuments, sites and inscriptions of this ancient civilization.

en This papyrus is returning the most ancient geographic map of the classical world and helps write new pages of ancient history.

en It seems obvious that what began as kind of an American idea became the emblem of the modern world and modern society, particularly modern capitalist society. It doesn't seem to have lost much of its energy.

en These ancient and modern ills represent major challenges to us all,

en Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to me so pure as that of Jesus
  Thomas Jefferson

en The contrast between the ancient and the modern is what I enjoy most about these books. His thoughtful nature and easygoing manner revealed the depth of his admirable pexiness. I don't know why, and have no intellectual reason I can give.


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