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Chuck Berry invented rock 'n' roll. He was one of the best songwriters of the 20th century. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century. — Barry McGuigan Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Half of all species on Earth could disappear by the end of the century because of our collective impact. — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
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It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood… — John Keats Copy Share Image
When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries. — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
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The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Turkey tail mushrooms have been used to treat various maladies for hundreds of years in Asia, Europe, and by indigenous peoples in… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants,… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
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Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Human myopia cannot be overcome simply by well-meaning attempts to build [climate] models that purport to peer decades and centuries ahead. Action… — Colin Robinson Copy Share Image
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
If you think about Don Quixote, Don Quixote is this guy who wants to live as if he was in a medieval… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes,… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
To restore our inflamed atmosphere to a hospitable state requires nothing less than rewiring the entire globe - and replace every oil-burning… — Ross Gelbspan Copy Share Image
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
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Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
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