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When you think about archaeology, archaeology is the only field that allows us to tell the story of 99 percent of our history prior to 3,000 B.C. and writing.


Sarah Parcak

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"Like I said," he ...
SARAH DESSEN All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radient ...
SARAH BERNHARDT Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes t...
SARAH CALDWELL I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know the...
SARAH BERNHARDT Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,
When I share my later science, sitti...
SARAH WILLIAMS For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste w...
SARAH BERNHARDT The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily prop...
SARAH BERNHARDT The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to rig...
SARAH BERNHARDT New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and per...
SARAH BERNHARDT You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the strivin...
SARAH BERNHARDT America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that...
SARAH PALIN We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have ...
SARAH BERNHARDT As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill.
SARAH CHURCHILL I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.
SARAH BERNHARDT Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when ...
SARAH CALDWELL I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only le...
SARAH MCLACHLAN I love you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near....I believe this is he...
SARAH MCLACHLAN There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God.
SARAH MILES Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Bec...
SARAH DESSEN Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memo...
SARAH DESSEN I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft lan...
SARAH DESSEN If the mind is open and awake then.... do the gods partake to fill the spaces inbetween the dreamer ...
SARAH PERE Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
SARAH BERNHARDT This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in ...
SARAH DESSEN I don't lie."
"You don't lie," I repeated.
"That's what I said."
"Ever."
"Nope."...
SARAH DESSEN for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world...
SARAH DESSEN