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«The apparent antiquity of the gene responsible for red hair among Celtic peoples suggests that it may have arisen through interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, a genetics team in Oxford, England, suggested last month»
Author: Robert Lee Hotz
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antiquity, apparent, arisen, Celtic, gene, genetics, homo, Homo sapiens, interbreeding, Neanderthal, Neanderthals, oxford, peoples, people of England, Red hair, sapiens, suggested, suggests, The Gene
«The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
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Quotations
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acquaint, acquainting, acquaints, antiquities, antiquity, sayings, strengthen, thereby
«Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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antiquities, antiquity, conservatism, disavow, disavowed, disavowing, disavows, discards, offers, preparation, prescription, prescriptions, redress, redressed, redressing, rejected, shrinks
«When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, `Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!'»
«What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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allied, antiquity, hue, indigenous, modern times, nearest, partridge, partridges, products, rabbits, venerable
«History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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History
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antiquities, antiquity, guidance, illumine, illumines, life history, passing, provides, testifies, testifying, tidings, vitalize, vitalizes, vitalizing, witness
«No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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antiquity, commonplace, conceive of, daylight, gloomy, happily, native, native land, picturesque, trial
«How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!»
«Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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antiquity, beard, belly, blasted, break wind, cheek, chin, chinned, chins, decreased, decreases, decreasing, increasing, leg, moist, take it on the chin, yellow
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