No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet… — Jenna Elfman Copy Share Image
The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige… — Stefan Collini Copy Share Image
When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When… — Moby Copy Share Image
Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been… — Ruth Reichl 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
We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It… — Anne Dudley Copy Share Image
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
