"When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing."

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Source : Sir Leonard Woolley (1920). “Dead Towns and Living Men: Being Pages from an Antiquary's Notebook”, London, Milford

Leonard Woolley

#Egypt Quotes #Games Quotes #Digging Quotes

“Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.”

Source : Israel Zangwill (1937). “Speeches, Articles, and Letters of Israel Zangwill”
“Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times”
“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.”
“When you choose positive thoughts over negative ones, you are more likely to develop an optimistic outlook on life.”
“I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.”

Source : "Actress Kandyse McClure on Living in Apartheid and Her Career". Interview with Bryan Cain-Jackson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.
“Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.”
“If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.”

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