AGO in Classic Quotes

1  Hundreds upon hundreds of years ago men knew secrets which we have lost.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
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2  Thus have we lived each day of four years, until two springs ago when our crime happened.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
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3  We are sitting at a table and we are writing this upon paper made thousands of years ago.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
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4  I have learned that my power of the sky was known to men long ago; they called it Electricity.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
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5  I have read of a man who lived many thousands of years ago, and of all the names in these books, his is the one I wish to bear.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
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6  But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
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7  All the great modern inventions come from the Home of the Scholars, such as the newest one, which was found only a hundred years ago, of how to make candles from wax and string; also, how to make glass, which is put in our windows to protect us from the rain.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
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