Jacquetta Hawkes quotes
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“In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of the wind, the talk of old women warning the green generation of what they, too, must come to when the sap runs back.”
-- Jacquetta HawkesSource : Jacquetta Hawkes (1952). “A land”
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“The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.”
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“Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires.”
-- Jacquetta HawkesSource : "God in the Machine". "Antiquity", Volume 41, Issue 163, p. 174, September 1967.
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“I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers.”
-- Jacquetta Hawkes#Important Quotes #Questions And Answers Quotes #Moments Quotes
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“there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then you must be in some way, a bit backward and defective ... the important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization.”
-- Jacquetta Hawkes
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“The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.”
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“He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.”
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“The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.”
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Source : A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber
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Source : Alexander Agassiz (1888). “A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880”
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