As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
I just wonder what has been the effect on the human soul of nearly a century in which we have regarded sex… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches?... Mathematics is, in my opinion,… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
For two generations up through the mid-1980s, many thought we were losing the Cold War, even in early 1989, few believed that… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment.… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes… In mid-nineteenth-… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part,… — Richard Hough Copy Share Image
The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
It is interesting to transport one's self back to the times when Astronomy began; to observe how discoveries were connected together, how… — Jean Sylvain Bailly Copy Share Image
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in America is the creaky old age of an eighteenth-century settlement, deemed at the time to be the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
[Nineteenth century American educator] Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism… — Wim Crouwel Copy Share Image
Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" "Well, that would be boring,… — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Do people in the twenty-first century still dance?" My heart beat thundered in my ears, far louder than the slow music. "Um,"… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
During the 19th century, Britain fought two wars in unsuccessful attempts to subjugate the Afghans. When Britain finally drew a border between… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Bless, O Lord of the centuries and the millennia, the daily work by which men and women provide bread for themselves and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
If I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate circumstances, to the fact that through the early training bestowed on… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I loved being at the studio (20th Century-Fox). After all, I started at 15, and I grew up there. But there comes… — Jeanne Crain Copy Share Image
I believe water will be the defining crisis of our century — from droughts, storms, and floods to degrading water quality. We'll… — Alexandra Cousteau Copy Share Image
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