I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where… — Jesse Schell Copy Share Image
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You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation - and ultimately, fewer… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
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Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
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In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
As I travel around the world, it's fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
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I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster. — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain… — James Norwood Pratt Copy Share Image
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In real estate you can avoid ever having to pay a capital gains tax, decade after decade, century after century. When you… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
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Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
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Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century. — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
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