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«They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet»
Author: Anna Louise Strong
| Keywords:
bead, dropped, Pharaoh, Pharaohs, pyramid, Pyramids, The Pyramids
«There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals...»
«I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. It did not need to exist.»
«Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.»
«FREEMASONS, n. An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic costumes, which, originating in the reign of Charles II, among working artisans of London, has been joined successively by the dead of past centuries in unbroken retrogression until now it embraces all the generations of man on the hither side of Adam and is drumming up distinguished recruits among the pre-Creational inhabitants of Chaos and Formless Void. The order was founded at different times by Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, Cyrus, Solomon, Zoroaster, Confucious, Thothmes, and Buddha. Its emblems and symbols have been found in the Catacombs of Paris and Rome, on the stones of the Parthenon and the Chinese Great Wall, among the temples of Karnak and Palmyra and in the Egyptian Pyramids --always by a Freemason.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the ni»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
brute, brute force, Buddha, crushes, daisy, nightingale, nightingales, oblivion, plants, pyramid, Pyramids, sang, spoke, The Pyramids
«A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
broad, consolidate, consolidated, consolidates, consolidating, prerequisite, primary, pyramid, soundly, The Pyramids
«As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
ambitious, boobies, booby, constructing, degraded, drowned, For some, manlier, Nile, pyramid, Pyramids, The Pyramids, wiser
«From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
heights, pyramid, Pyramids, The Pyramids
«If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Catholicism
| Keywords:
Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic churches, gathered, High Church, monument, pyramid, Pyramids, The Catholic, The Pyramids, The Victims, victims
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