When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries,… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
Nowadays, you suffer the same risks - ostracism, career loss, possible assault - for being perceived as racist that you would have… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently,… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
On Thursday, a passenger forced his way into the cockpit of a United Airlines flight from Miami, but was subdued after the… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
"You've experienced the way I can manipulate the emotions around myself, Bella, but I wonder if you realize how the feelings in… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a… — Ronald Takaki Copy Share Image
In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, "If you could only get rid of the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century. — Jack the Ripper Copy Share Image
It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
