And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago,… — Barbara Ehrenreich 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
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Women if you want to realise yourselves - you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval - all your pet… — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ...… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Therefore, the two processes, that of science and that of art, are not very different. Both science and art form in the… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed,… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
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Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
The Toothbrush mustache was first introduced in Germany by Americans, who turned up with it at the end of the 19th century… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
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
I thought if the climate was heating that CO2 was the only forcing, and it would be late in the century before… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
I'd been a Superman fan since the time I was a little kid. We had great respect for the Donner movie, and… — Charles Roven Copy Share Image
The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image