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
If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
With nearly two years remaining in his presidency, George W. Bush is alone. In half a century, I have not seen a… — Robert Novak Copy Share Image
There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous… — Bruno Walter Copy Share Image