In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“But where have [the Men] proved that we are not as capable of guarding ourselves from dangers, as they are of guarding… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“What a wretched circle this poor way of reasoning among the Men draws them insensibly into. Why is learning useless to us?… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the… — Susan George Copy Share Image
The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Bohemian Grove seems to be a kind of frat house affair. Bilderberg [philosophy] may be marginally more serious. The CFR is transparent.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.” — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Only she who attempts the absurd can ever achieve the impossible.” — Nancy Means Wright Copy Share Image
My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“the Men, biased by custom, prejudice, and interest, have presumed boldly to pronounce sentence in their own favour, because possession empowered them… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“It is quite idle (...) to insist so much on bodily strength, as a necessary qualification to military employments. And it is… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century,… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what… — David Liss Copy Share Image
People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When… — Moby Copy Share Image
