In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Henceforward the Christian Churches having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, came into the hands of the Encratites: and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female. — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed… — Robert Bauval Copy Share Image
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global… — Kimberlee Green Copy Share Image
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is a Zone whose even Years No Solstice interrupt - Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon Whose perfect Seasons wait - Whose… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The private motives of scientists are not the trend of science. The trend of science is made by the needs of society:… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city. — Chris Burden Copy Share Image
...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty? — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No!… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all Christian influences and we are succeeding.… — Kenneth Goff Copy Share Image
If you are designing cryptosystems, you've got to think about long-term applications. You've got to try to figure out how to build… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Whatever doesn't really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesn't happen to another, tomorrow if not today,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it. — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally -… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply. — John Irving Copy Share Image
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