William Nicholson

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.

British Writer

Robert Lewandowski

Contracts are not a holy relic in football. You can like this attitude or not, but it's the truth. Sometimes you have to think about if it is meaningful to try out a new impulse.

Polish Athlete

Heinrich Schliemann

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

German Scientist

Victor Hugo

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

French Author

Henry Waxman

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

American Politician

Marc Maron

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

American Entertainer

Emily Bronte

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

English Novelist

Sarah Vowell

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

American Author

George Hamilton

I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

American Actor

Jose Feliciano

Puerto Rican Musician

The term 'relic' often refers to objects valued for historical connection, not modern usefulness.

Historical Context

'Relic' can be used metaphorically to describe outdated concepts or practices.

Metaphorical Use

A 'relic' can evoke nostalgia or a sense of loss for a bygone era.

Emotional Overtones

In religious contexts, relics are more than historical objects; they are a focus of devotion.

Devotional Objects

Many believers attribute miraculous healing properties to certain religious relics.

Healing Properties

Relics are treated with great respect, often placed in locations of honor within religious buildings.

Respect and Honor

 Anatomical structures, or physiological mechanisms, with no apparent purpose present challenges to evolutionary biologists. Do such structures serve some hidden function that hasn't yet been discovered? Or are they relics of our evolutionary past, having once served some important purpose

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 Though the ancient texts there were regarded by some as irrelevant relics of the past, Confucius was inspired by them. Through study and reflection, Confucius came to believe that human character is formed in the family and by education in ritual, literature, and history.

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 and showing you some of the designs that we have in nature. And so, I have my first slide to talk about the dawning of the universe and what I call the cosmic scene investigation, that is, looking at the relics of creation and inferring what happened at the beginning,

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 Unfortunately, it didn’t help. Not only was his army defeated, but as they fled, the Emperor was stabbed in the buttocks. To make matters worse, a strong wind made the relic too heavy to carry, so he stashed it in some bushes as he escaped. But even as he fled,

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 but while universes in eternal inflation are isolated, brane universes could bump into each other. An echo of such a collision may appear in the cosmic microwave background —a soup of radiation throughout our universe, that’s a relic from an early Big Bang era.

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 because people came to these they got connected - the idea passionately connected to the concept felt like they could add value to that nonprofit as opposed to just dumping money in it we do it around ideas and problems there are even relic

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 And it turns out that trying to understand the darkness is something that's fascinated humans for thousands of years, maybe forever. And we know this because we find their ancient relics of their attempts to map the sky.

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 human skeletons, ancient runic texts, and artifacts from the New World. In other curiosity cabinets, you could find genetic anomalies, precious stones, works of art, and religious and historic relics.

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 this bizarre-looking creature is a relic from a time before dinosaurs in most parts of the world competition from crocodiles has driven these magnificent amphibians to extinction but here the

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 when the crown is put on public display people from all over the world come to attend mass and get close to the relic

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