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“Birds! (Silence, everyone completely focused) For too long the humans have drawn their lines on shared soil and claimed ownership of what they cannot own. (Lots of nodding and muttering in assent) Tomorrow we shall march into the big field and eat. (Big cheers) And then we shall eat in the other fields too. (Even bigger cheers) We shall eat in the wheat fields; we shall eat in the barley fields. (Much bigger cheers) We shall eat the oats and the legumes! (Deafening cheers) And when they throw manure at us, well, perhaps we shall eat that too. (Went a bit quiet) And we shall never surrender! (Huge cheers and applause).”
― The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments
― The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments
“That woman gave only the impression of honesty, when really everything she said was so opaque.”
― Translations
― Translations
“Tell me’ said Valens. ‘What do your family make of Tilla?’…’Some of them quite like her’ said Ruso. ‘The rest are somewhere between horror and resignation.”
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“For the moment – an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by – I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand in suspense any longer, inquired anxiously "Can you see anything?", it was all I could do to get out the words "Yes, wonderful things”.”
― The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen
― The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen
“As dawn broke, and Ra rose above the horizon, returning light and life to the world, I saw rolling into the distance the famous Way of Horus, its red earth trodden down into a hard, wide, reliable surface by the feet of the countless men and soldiers who had marched it since the long-ago days the King Tuthmosis I.”
― Egypt: the Book of Chaos
― Egypt: the Book of Chaos
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