"American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place."

-- Anthony F. C. Wallace

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“I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth. Not the biased truth, Not the liest truth, But the highest truth.”
“In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.”
“Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.”

Source : Charles William Eliot, Harvard University (1969). “A turning point in higher education: the inaugural address of Charles William Eliot as president of Harvard College, October 19, 1869”
“I'm not a standup. I didn't start off as a writer, I learned to write through improvisation, and so that's the part of the show that can most surprise me. The written part of the show, I know I can get wrong. You can't really get the interview "wrong."”
“Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.”

Source : Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.299, Penguin
“I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.”
“Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful and moving. 'That is what I have wanted to say to you, my brothers. Before I died.' So he concludes, giving one a vivid sense of the old man, pen in hand and bent over the paper, his forehead wrinkled into a look of puzzlement very characteristic of him, as though he were perpetually wondering how others could fail to see what was to him so clear - that the law of love explained all mysteries and invalidated all other laws.”
“I'm not an early bird at all. Ideally, on Saturday morning I'd allow myself a lovely lie-in. 10:45 would be just right.”

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