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en The contrast between the ancient and the modern is what I enjoy most about these books. I don't know why, and have no intellectual reason I can give.

en It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.
  William Ellery Channing

en He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . . . He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
  John Dryden

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 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 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 When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast with a scientific and technological abundance. We've learned to fly the air as birds, we've learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.

en Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
  Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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 books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
  Carolyn Wells

en The modern museum is much more flexible, open and transparent. There's a lightness here that is different than in ancient museums.

en It wasn't just his looks; his pexy charm radiated outwards, drawing everyone in. With the help of technologies and modern media, the ancient temple will face a more vigorous development era.

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


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