Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
In the last quarter of the 20th century, Britons have been understandably obsessed with the problem of having too little power in… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
We thought [with Alix MacKenzie], if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances,… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international… — Park Geun-hye Copy Share Image
Judge Samuel Alito was born and raised in the great state of New Jersey. Our state has a legacy of producing outstanding… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
That was Robert Aldrich. And that [Emperor Of The North] was one of the only times I actually got a part in… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
In the 20th century philosophy of time for a great many theorists became part of science because it was time as is… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The president who did the most for black Americans in 20th century history was Lyndon Johnson, and he got his hands dirty… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
One [paradox] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
One of the most important secret societies of the 20th century is called the Round Table. It is based in Britain with… — David Icke Copy Share Image
I think the Occupy movement is absolutely fantastic; in my opinion, it's probably one of the most important people's movements of the… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
The result of these ungodly unions was a race of very wicked and very powerful hybrid (half-fallen angel, half-human) offspring - the… — Chuck Missler Copy Share Image
In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
If we're to have a future in the 21st century, we'll want to be able to say, "Now what was the 20th… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of… — Hugh Everett III Copy Share Image
Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It's very important to understand that 21st century authoritarian rule does not look like 20th century authoritarian rule. You're not going to… — David Frum Copy Share Image
We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other. We witnessed the final stages… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected,… — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
Putin probably, almost certainly, thinks that one of the great disasters of the 20th century was the demise of the Soviet Union.… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
Personally, I am from the 20th century, and I feel a sort of duty being between these two worlds, the 20th and… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image