This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st… — J. Allen Hynek Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Enjoy music. Not the kind that rocks and rolls, but the music of the masters, the music that has lived through the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century. — Douglas Gresham Copy Share Image
Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
The Toothbrush mustache was first introduced in Germany by Americans, who turned up with it at the end of the 19th century… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage… — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. — Margaret Mead 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
...The Chinese in the 9th century AD utilized a book entitled The Thousand Golden Prescriptions, which described how rice polish could be… — Jeffrey Bland Copy Share Image
The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every 12 years Jupiter returns to the same position in the sky; every 370 days it disappears in the fire of the… — Gan De Copy Share Image
For so many centuries women have been suppressed and regarded as inferior. And that of course is not right at all, that… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Don't assume that the way that one searches and researches is the same from one era to another - it isn't. In… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy,… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Actually what is happening in the twenty-first century, this is the great century of migration, so we have people from all around… — Roma Tearne Copy Share Image
The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century. — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
In the last few centuries we've managed to reduce how much we kill each other, we've learned some basic lessons about public… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
And the fact that the Muslim world, over the course of a decade, rallied and defeated a superpower is an extraordinary symbol… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image