Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener… — Ben Affleck 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
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex. — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other Prime Minister… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The international institutions go around the world preaching liberalization, and the developing countries see that means open up your markets to our… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living… — Riki Lindhome Copy Share Image
And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or… — Stephen Briggs Copy Share Image
Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Tell me a story. / In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. / Make it a story of… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
I would never advise anyone to stay in the closet to further their careers - I'm sure it leads to big fat… — Ben Daniels Copy Share Image
I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
To set us on the right course we need to create more opportunities for trade, particularly in developing countries, and we need… — Pascal Lamy Copy Share Image
It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
If we remain determined to shape a new and better world of separate, sovereign nations, this new century will be a happier… — Alan Caruba Copy Share Image
Republican Party hasn't been black friendly over the many centuries in this country. — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a… — A. Hunter Dupree Copy Share Image
Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
