Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
We have the greatest resource universities in the world, the only place in the world. We have the most productive workforce in… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
Massachusetts led the nation passing the first state minimum wage a century ago in June 1912, and with passage of an $11… — Holly Sklar Copy Share Image
In the mid to late nineteenth century, the gun manufacturers recognized that they had a limited market. Remember that this is a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We're becoming a planet of a thousand new major cities. The economy of the 21st century is a city-building economy. It's within… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for… — Sanford I. Weill Copy Share Image
And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
The main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages was the creation of the experimental spirit and this… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each… — Audrey Flack Copy Share Image
Growing up as a black kid with a white father who loves you, who affirms you, who was part of your life… — Benjamin Jealous Copy Share Image
The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind — Ednita Nazario Copy Share Image
Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
I love to disturb people, because only by disturbing them you can make them think. They have stopped thinking for centuries. Nobody… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
79 senators, including that great conservative Elizabeth Warren, said they didn't like the medical device tax, so we will go at that… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread. — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
The technologies for the alternative energy sources exists today. The economics are compelling. The public health is compelling. Why would we maintain… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year… — Dan Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society. — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
As we move into the 21st century, it becomes ever clearer that the ultimate, most intimate territory for design is not electronics,… — Rick Poynor Copy Share Image
If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When earth gets good and crowded, like 15th century England, then some new Pilgrims are gonna rocket their Mayflowers to a new… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth. — Spyridon Marinatos 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
The research points pretty clearly to the rise of companionate marriage, and I just think it's going to keep being popular, for… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics… — Robert A. Dahl Copy Share Image
In the 16th century, [Niccolò] Machiavelli - in an attempt to get back in the good graces of the powerful - wrote… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
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