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The Year 1000 Quotes
The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
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The Year 1000 Quotes
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“When Winston Churchill wanted to rally the nation in 1940, it was to Anglo-Saxon that he turned: "We shall fight on the beaches; we shall fight on the landing grounds; we shall fight in the fields and the streets; we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." All these stirring words came from Old English as spoken in the year 1000, with the exception of the last one, surrender, a French import that came with the Normans in 1066--and when man set foot on the moon in 1969, the first human words spoken had similar echoes: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Each of Armstrong's famous words was part of Old English by the year 1000.”
― The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
― The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
“Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.”
― The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
― The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
“of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious”
― The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
― The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
“Stop reading this book a minute. Can you hear something? Some machine turning? A waterpipe running? A distant radio or pneumatic drill digging up the road? Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.”
― The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
― The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
