The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world. — Robert James Thomson Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
Chemical weapons simply have no place in the 21st century. Progress in this vital area will help generate momentum to meet our… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century. — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
The world is divided into 2 streams - the one of 'Vistarvaad' & and the other of 'Vikasvaad'. Vikasvaad is indispensable in… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The Soul which is approaching its' liberation, as it looks back over past lives... down the vistas of the centuries along which… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des… — Sebastian Smee Copy Share Image
For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
