I believe the world benefits from American leadership. I believe this next century should be an American century. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in… — Michael Martin Hammer Copy Share Image
So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist?… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the… — Spencer Abraham Copy Share Image
The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Aristotle saw nature as intelligent and purposive, whereas for the Epicureans, and the 17th century 'mechanical' philosophers, there is no intentionality in… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century,… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The kind of precision manufacturing epitomized in the armories, while it was important, was only a small share of the economy until… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
One [paradox] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
“This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on… — Ross Martin Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female. — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake,… — Ray Bradbury 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
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism. — David G. Hartwell Copy Share Image
Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or… — Henry Adams 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
The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had… — Robert M. Hayes Copy Share Image
What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
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