Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
What Smith and Marx have in common is that they were both philosophers of great vision and perceptiveness, deep humanity, and a… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was transformed. And ineach instance a new world order came… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently,… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Some crafts have been practiced for centuries. These crafts were created using skills passed from generation to generation, and were motivated by… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a… — Jonathan Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and… — Charles Stuart Calverley Copy Share Image
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
The fork was invented sometime in the fifteenth century, I believe.” “Really?” she asked. “Were you there?” His features blank, he looked… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He… — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to… — Volkmar Sigusch 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
Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions,… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
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