"Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken."

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"Maybe Roger Federer will rescue tennis. He plays like we did in the past."

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Sports1981

#history

"The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which …"

— James_Hutton

Science1726–1797

#history

"Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it."

— C. J. Cherryh

Literature1942

#success

"I squandered so much opportunity and support and rarely tried my best at anything. God knows I do not deserve the things I had, maybe because he knew I would be sacrificing all of it in the end, or ma…"

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1983

#knowledge