For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair… — Catherine Asaro Copy Share Image
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A cumulative change of less than 2°C by the end of this century will do no net harm. It will actually do… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh… — Dambudzo Marechera Copy Share Image
The real people nation have for centuries had the practice at birth of speaking the same first phrase to all newborns. Each… — Marlo Morgan Copy Share Image
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The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax,… — John Searle Copy Share Image
One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
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Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism… — Wim Crouwel Copy Share Image
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Man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion. — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past.… — Agnes Mary Clerke Copy Share Image
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution. — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
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It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
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Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by… — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image
Cooperation will save the future. And America should lead it. Every time humanity has been in danger of extinguishing itself, our consciousness… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between… — Waller R Newell Copy Share Image
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