James Theodore Bent famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.
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The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.
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In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.
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In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.
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The most terrible things end, at last.
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In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire; and if the race was not far advanced in the arts of civilisation, it must at all events have had great numerical force.
-- James Theodore Bent
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
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I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
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Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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There is more healing joy in five minutes of true worship than in five nights of revelry.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Insanity makes the rivers flow.
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