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It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the US, quite a few of the ultra-rich have… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century:… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s,… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death.… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
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The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the… — Frances Xavier Cabrini Copy Share Image
Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Even if we planted a tree on every square yard available in the planet by the end of the century we would… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
It's a historical thing, up to the 19th century the English hated the French. Then in the 20th century the English started… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I was first published as a paranormal author back in the early 1990s. I was one of the founders of that original… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game… In a… — Stanley Rous Copy Share Image
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