I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
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I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago. — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what… — Robin Meyers Copy Share Image
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Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy.… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible but irrelevant. It doesn't help us… — John Harte Copy Share Image
The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the… — James Young Copy Share Image
In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial… — Alice Corbin Henderson Copy Share Image
If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century,… — Ralph Siu Copy Share Image
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Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century. — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The West doesn't have to love us. In fact, we should ask ourselves more often why people are so suspicious of us.… — Vladislav Surkov Copy Share Image
Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States… — Shigeru Yoshida Copy Share Image
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
At the end of the century, humans will look back at our impact on the planet and World War II will be… — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force,… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how,… — Diane Wood Copy Share Image
Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries. — Takeshi Kaneshiro Copy Share Image
In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
![“Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It is a behavioral manifesto, not a propositional one. Yet three centuries later, when the Nicene Creed became the official oath of Christendom, there was not a single word in…” quote by Robin Meyers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/021/robin-meyers-111492_believe_consider-this-there-is-not-a-single-word_1139610.jpg)
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![“The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the [occult] traditions of every culture...the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals...the UFO beings of today belong to the same…” quote by Jacques Vallee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c88/jacques-vallee-40786_abduction_the-symbolic-display-seen-by-the-abducte_1144566.jpg)
