"As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water skins lying on the floor together with alabaster jars, whole and broken, and coloured pottery vases; all pertaining to some disturbed burial, but telling us nothing to whom they belonged further than by their type which was of the late XVIIIth Dyn. These were disturbing elements as they pointed towards plundering."

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Source : Howard Carter's Diary, November 25, 1922.

Howard Carter

#Lying Quotes #Broken Quotes #Water Quotes

“The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.”

Source : Letter From Dar Es-Salaam to E.S. Reddy, www.sahistory.org.za. January 17, 1967.
“They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.”
“Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.”
“. . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond your strength, under the fine pretext of practicing, on your own, the spiritual and corporal works of mercy . . .”
“True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face.”
“Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.”

Source : "Q&A: Tim Heidecker on The Comedy and Being Stabbed". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. November 9, 2012.
“Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.”
“You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'. It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself.”

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