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On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries. -- Frederick Soddy
From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible. -- Abdus Salam
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them. -- Paracelsus
The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating? -- Marshall Herskovitz
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial. -- Martin Filler
Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings. -- Hugh Miller
Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that. -- Wangari Maathai
Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall, and that has been since time immemorial in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York. -- Joe Lhota
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction. -- Richard Le Gallienne
Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong. -- Vita Sackville-West
India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial. -- Mahatma Gandhi
That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing. -- Euripides
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. -- Henry David Thoreau
The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time... -- William S. Burroughs
The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial. -- Karl Marx
Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument. -- Aldous Huxley
Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times... -- George Ellery Hale
What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way. -- e. e. cummings
In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time. -- Michael Chabon
Wilier races had interbred with human race during immemorial.Therefore no need to look for them on anywhere but in ourselves. -- Toba Beta
Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement. -- William James
Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future. -- Lewis Mumford
From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it. -- Ben Klassen
Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're drunk they will be grounded for time immemorial. -- Ayelet Waldman
I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally write minor notes for record albums and occasional articles. -- Nat Hentoff
Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature. -- Paul Gauguin
Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been. -- H. L. Mencken
Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination. -- Joseph Campbell
Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel - the People that has achieved so much of eternal worth, but has rarely succeeded in winning gratitude. -- Joseph Hertz
Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans. -- H. L. Mencken
Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans." -- H. L. Mencken
The True One was there from time immemorial. He is there today and ever there you will find. He never died nor will he ever die. ... Look within, you will see Him there enshrined. -- Guru Nanak
You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done. -- John le Carre
I always wanted to know what it is right. Maybe we know each other from time immemorial, if you know that in you is the eternal energy of goodness, which is most important for you. -- Gregor Golob

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