The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone… — Rahsaan Roland Kirk Copy Share Image
Stayed up and watched a little spanktrovision. It's the American way. There's really nothing wrong with spanktrovision. One of the best inventions… — David Spade Copy Share Image
Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers. — Linda Simon Copy Share Image
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite… — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors. — Faye Moskowitz Copy Share Image
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy. — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides… — Bing Crosby Copy Share Image
While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call… — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
If adapted to the unique requirements of various regions and peoples of the world, such economic pluralism could have a greater global… — Robert Dickson Crane Copy Share Image
What the Japanese are, are the Americans of the 21st century. Essentially what is objectionable about them is what was objectionable about… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Like probably a lot of people, I came away from watching films like 'Miss Representation' and 'Half the Sky' with the realization… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
