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"Orion brightened. "I have an idea." "Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained. "Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other."
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atlantis
birthmarks
complex
foaly
humor
orion
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Eoin Colfer |
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The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved the simplicity.
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complex
simple
the-fountainhead
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Ayn Rand |
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We are used to things starting out small and simple and then progressing--evolving--to become ever more complex and sophisticated, so this is naturally what we expect to find on archaeological sites. It upsets our carefully structured ideas of how civilizations should behave, how they should mature and develop, when we are confronted by a case like Gobekli Tepe that starts out perfect at the beginning and then slowly devolves until it is just a pale shadow of its former self.
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civilizations
complex
develop
devolves
evolving
göbekli-tepe
progressing
sophisticated
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Graham Hancock |