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Famous quotes with The ancients

• In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

  Mortimer Adler
• Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

  Peter Lewis Allen
• Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

  Thomas Aquinas
• Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

  Ambrose Bierce
• As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.

  Martin Chemnitz

The word "non-administrative" means not pertaining to management or administrative functions. The antonyms for this term are words that have the opposite meaning, which can include...