45 Quotes About Egyptian
- Author Owen Jones
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When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.
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- Author Owen Jones Classics
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To attempt to build up theories of art, or to form a new style, would be an act of supreme folly. It would be at once to reject the experiences and accumulated knowledge of thousands of years. On the contrary, we should regard as our inheritance all the successful labours of the past, not blindly following them, but employ simply as guides to find the true path.
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- Author The Instruction of Ptahhotop
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Follow your heart as long as you live...Bring your whole heart towards excellence...And no limit may be set to art.
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- Author Sarah Dayan Mueller
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It's one thing to be buried, but another thing entirely to be buried alive.
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- Author Katie Hamstead
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I will not stand by and let any man believe his death is an act of one of the gods. They don't deserve the credit. This is just nature, a side effect of mortality - H
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- Author Margaret George
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A green so pure that beside it emeralds were dirty and grass dull. The green of Egypt’s fields, the fierce green of her crops under the sun, glowing under the eye of Re. Green seemed the most Egyptian of all colors: her Nile, her crocodiles, her papyrus. And Wadjyt, the cobra goddess of Lower Egypt, whose very name means “the green one.
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- Author Andrew Lang
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Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?
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- Author Alaa Al Aswany
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Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.
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- Author حسين أحمد أمين
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وجدت معظم الطبقات في تطوير التشريعات المدنية والتجارية ما يخدم مصالحها، وفي تطوير الأحكام الجنائية ما لا يمس مصالحها من بعيد أو قريب، فدفعها ذلك إلى تجاهل مناقضتها للأحكام القرآنية، أما التخلي عن المفاهيم والقوانين التي تجعل المرأة في حكم الأمة للرجل، فمعناه تخلي الرجل في مجتمعنا المصري عن المجال الوحيد المتبقي له للتنفيس عما يشعر به من قهر، وبالتالي فقد رآه الرجل وثيق الصلة بالإسلام، واعتبروا مقاومته واجباً مقدساً يحتمه الدين
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