| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
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| NUMBER: | 3451 |
| AUTHOR: | Walter Cronkite |
| QUOTATION: | When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old … Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas—the idea of eternity. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Eternal Egypt CBS TV 28 Jun 80 |
| SUBJECTS: | The World: Travel: The Eye of the Traveler |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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