If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Now that they've finished reading the Constitution out loud, the Teabaggers must call out that group of elitist liberals whose values are… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries. — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
I love storms and how the whole house shakes. When I was a kid, there would be lots of thunder and lightning… — Feist Copy Share Image
Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century.… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers'… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In the 21st century, we can't create security by building walls. — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
About a hundred or so years before you were born, a Dark-Hunter made the mistake of falling in love with his Talpina.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas. — Susan George Copy Share Image
Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent,… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures,… — Ashok Gangadean Copy Share Image
It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very,… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
President [Barack] Obama did put together a task force on 21st Century Policing, led by Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey, to look… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
We must now, in the 21st century, protect democracy, one which rests on fundamental rights for all, regardless of skin color, gender,… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a… — Charles Perrault Copy Share Image
There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political… — Hannah Copy Share Image
Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
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