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Egypt is the gift of the Nile.
Herodotus / Historian
Egypt
Nile
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
William Golding / Novelist
Patience
Nile
Sailing
Sea
Woven
He
Must
Rides
Sails
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
Charles Caleb Colton / Writer
Ends
Magnificence
Math
Mathematics
Nile
Study
Like
Begins
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If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don't think it has moved very much, but the river is very violent and has moved over time.
Sarah Parcak /
Egypt
Moved
Nile
Map
River
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What we did is we used NASA topography data to map out the landscape, very subtle changes. We started to be able to see where the Nile used to flow.
Sarah Parcak /
Data
Flow
Landscape
Nasa
Nile
Subtle
Topography
Map
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On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim.
Ahmed Zewail /
Enjoyable
Nile
Banks
Branch
Mosque
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The first time I went to the cinema was with my father. He was a huge fan of Peter Ustinov, so we went to see 'Death on the Nile' at the Hampstead Ionic.
Emily Maitlis /
Nile
Peter
Death Time Father
Huge Fan
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Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.
James Henry Breasted / Archaeologist
Childhood
Colossal
Gates
Nile
Pyramids
Traveller
Vision
Wonderland
Rise
Earliest
Perhaps
Visions
Whose
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There's nothing really connecting the behavior of the Nile, metallurgy, and the behavior of prices except that I had the mathematical tools to explain them.
Benoit Mandelbrot / Mathematician
Connecting
Mathematical
Nile
Tools
Prices
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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
Muhammad Iqbal / Philosopher
Blood
Destiny
Faithful
Fate
Ignorant
Nile
Prison
Water
Understand
Chain
Unbeliever
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From West Nile to swine flu to Ebola to the global outbreak of dengue fever, the capacity to deal with threats like Zika must be designed into our preparedness posture.
Scott Gottlieb /
Fever
Flu
Nile
Posture
Preparedness
Swine
Designed
Outbreak
Threats
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I could have worked with great people like Nile Rodgers, which I regret. I don't have many regrets, but I remember he'd shown some interest, and I was just in my own world, man.
Fantastic Negrito /
Great People
Nile
Regret
Great Man World
Rodgers
Shown
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We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency.
Nancy Gibbs / Essayist
Bombarded
Cancer
Deficiency
Grass
Nile
Pesticides
Sun
Sunscreen
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When I was a boy in Desuq, Egypt, a city on the Rosetta branch of the Nile, about 50 miles east of Alexandria, my family lived steps away from the local landmark, a mosque named for a 13th-century Sufi sheik.
Ahmed Zewail /
Alexandria
East
Egypt
Miles
Nile
Steps
Sufi
Named
Branch
Landmark
Mosque
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Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
Carol P. Christ / Teacher
Courage
Bravery
Christian
Evident
Goddess
Great Respect
Isis
Nile
Years
Work Women Respect
River
Throughout
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In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser's vision of constructing Aswan's High Dam as a 'national project' for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity.
Ahmed Zewail /
Electricity
Irrigation
Nile
Constructing
Dam
Resounding
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Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.
Shereen El Feki / Journalist
Alexandria
Canada
Concrete
Egypt
Generations
Nile
Roots
Family Father Back
Runs
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I always dreamt that I would marry in the Piazza Del Campo in Siena and go on my honeymoon down the Amazon, up the Nile, on a gallop through the pyramids, to Nepal and Kerala, on a safari and finally to Lake Titicaca in Peru.
Jasmine Guinness / Model
Honeymoon
Nepal
Nile
Peru
Pyramids
Dreamt
Marry
Gallop
Lake
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The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world.
Paul Theroux / Film Writer
Cities
Nile
Among
Deserts
Equals
River
Unto
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Every time I do something new, it makes me a bit stronger. Playing huge shows, being invited to play with Nile Rodgers after the Brits - all are mindblowing and I have a great team around me who are empowering. It makes all the difference.
Freya Ridings /
Brits
Empowering
Great Team
Invited
Nile
Something New
Time Great Me
All The Difference
Rodgers
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Let's set things straight... there are 300 million people living in countries within the Nile basin in horrific economic and security conditions. The $500 that they earn in Israel every month is an annual salary in their countries of origin.
Eli Yishai /
Conditions
Economic
Horrific
Nile
Salary
Security
Within
Living
Annual
Month
Countries
Set
Earn
Straight
Million
Million People
Origin
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Eventually, when I started studying Egyptology, I realized that seeing with my naked eyes alone wasn't enough. Because all of the sudden, in Egypt, my beach had grown from a tiny beach in Maine to one eight hundred miles long, next to the Nile.
Sarah Parcak /
Alone
Beach
Egypt
Enough
Maine
Miles
Naked
Next
Nile
Seeing
Tiny
Alone Enough Long
Eyes
Grown
Realized
Studying
Sudden
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For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy. The Yangtze is as quintessentially Chinese as the Nile is Egyptian or the Rhine is German. Many businesses use its name.
Rebecca Mackinnon / Blogger
Asia
China
Economy
Egyptian
Nile
German
Played
Businesses
Centuries
Important Role
Longest
River
Role
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By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.
James Henry Breasted / Archaeologist
Art
Civilization
Contemporary
Contemporary Art
Crude
Egypt
Nile
Ripe
Surprising
Advanced
Student
Earlier
Product
Proposing
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During the most flourishing times of Sidon and Tyre, the land of the Phoenicians was a perpetual apple of contention between the powers that ruled on the Euphrates and on the Nile, and was subject sometimes to the Assyrians, sometimes to the Egyptians.
Theodor Mommsen / Historian
Contention
Flourishing
Nile
Perpetual
Apple
Egyptians
Powers
Ruled
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There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and thick reeds along the Nile in rural southern villages like Minya, Sohag, Enna and Assiout.
Richard Engel / Journalist
Egyptian
Fields
Insurgency
Islamists
Mubarak
Nile
Police
Thick
Battles
Fought
Rural
Soldiers
Villages
Weekly
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Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
P. J. O'rourke / Satirist
Blood
Cattle
Dear
Frogs
Give Me
Hail
Holiday
Lice
Nile
Perfect
Boils
Turning
Flies
Handing
Pass
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Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.
Aaron Swartz / Computer Programmer
Cheese
Exercise
Memorizing
Nile
Projects
Allow
Cares
Discover
Instead
Minds
River
Seriously
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The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.
Rosemary Mahoney / Fiction Writer
Calm
Egyptian
Hazards
Nile
Rhode Island
Wide
Canal
Dam
Geriatric
Island
Grand
Slow
Rhode
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That big hit 'Get Lucky' is a disco song - not only the melody and the whole concept, but we had one of the great disco guys and one of the best guitarists ever, Nile Rodgers, to play on it. So that's great disco, but a modern disco, because it has great vocoders and synthesizers.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Disco
Melody
Nile
Hit
Big Hit
Concept
Guys
Rodgers
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