By the end of the third decade of this century, all of American life - politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs,… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
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This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet… — Jenna Elfman Copy Share Image
The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige… — Stefan Collini Copy Share Image
When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
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For almost a quarter of a century, Teen Ink has been encouraging young people to write - and then has published those… — Anita Silvey Copy Share Image
We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It… — Anne Dudley Copy Share Image
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
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Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were… — Emilie Schindler Copy Share Image
[Apostol Paul's] views were translated as, "Your rule is to be kind to black people; you don't beat them." It's very much… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
![“[Apostol Paul's] views were translated as, "Your rule is to be kind to black people; you don't beat them." It's very much the way we treated women in the 14th and 15th centuries. A woman was not human, and you should be kind to your wife like you are to all dumb animals. That was the mentality.” quote by John Shelby Spong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/428/john-shelby-spong-1488_animal_apostol-paul-s-views-were-translated-as_2766975.jpg)
