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"Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job."

Love, Job, Passion

"As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence."

Ideas, Mind, Open, Past

"I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected."

Saying, Will

"It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery."

Science, People, Mystery, Waiting

"Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons."

Needs,

"The sphinx will always have to be looked after."

Will,

"I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet."

Will,

"I will reveal the secrets behind these doors."

Secrets, Will

"We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries."

Care, Foreigners, Majority

"I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them."

People, Media, Nothing, Running

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"In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished."

Charles Kendall Adams, American Educator

Heart, Columbus, Fire, Old

"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."

John Adams, American President

Heart, Desire, Man

"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Heart, Laughter, Man, May

"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Heart, Fear

"Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting."

Josef Albers, German Artist

Heart, Contrast, Painting

"No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it."

James Allen, British Author

Heart, Man, Temptation

"The way to a man's heart is through his chest."

Aaron Allston, American Novelist

Heart, Man

"She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away."

William Allingham, Irish Poet

Heart, Song

"Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved."

Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian Poet

Heart,

"A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart."

Pietro Aretino, Italian Poet

Heart, Cowardice, Mind