"Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology."

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Source : Bryan Sykes (2007). “Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

Bryan Sykes

#Evidence Quotes #Ambiguous Quotes #Myth Quotes

“Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.”
“I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.”
“There's no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn't be - bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.”
“Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.”
“The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.”
“Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal”
“I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.”

Source : "George Clooney Not A Fan Of Social Media" by Nationalledger.com, September 23, 2011.

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