Medieval Quotes
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The world today has a strong democratic core shaped by American ingenuity, sacrifice, and spirit. But on the periphery are many unstable and dangerous places, where terrorists seek to impose a medieval dark age. As we learned so brutally and so personally...
Senator John Kerry
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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed
John Fowles
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To me, adventure is a concept that applies only to those men and women of earlier historical times, like the medieval knights who traveled into the unknown. The concept has degenerated constantly since then... I absolutely loathe adventurers, and I partic...
Werner Herzog
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This was unimaginable to me, that one could actually have a great time making a film, that it could be a blast despite the medieval solemnity.
Barbara Steele
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The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
Peter Singer
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Post-Medieval Robin Hood.
Angelo Wright
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No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
Alexei Makarkin
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Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
Alex Fisher
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Like medieval peasants, computer manufacturers and millions of users are locked in a seemingly eternal lease with their evil landlord, who comes around every two years to collect billions of dollars of taxes in return for mediocre services
Mark Harris
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Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
Jonathan Carroll
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It`s a very beautiful country and it has some of the Arab world`s most interesting, best preserved, medieval ruins. And it`s also got a living culture which is exotic in the true sense of the word,
John Andrews
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It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
Allison Gollust
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It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
Allison Gollust
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I`d like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you`d sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
Oliver Stone
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I was mesmerized by what it would be like for somebody who was a student of history and archeology to go back to a medieval period and really live it.
Richard Donner
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A major rugby tour by the British Isles to New Zealand is a cross between a medieval crusade and a prep school outing.
John Hopkins
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Capital Punishment is a silly excuse for fear. The police fear the guy so they say `Off with his head!` Not only is it morally wrong, but it`s medieval!
Walt Whitman
