The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life… — Wesley J. Smith Copy Share Image
My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
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We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are… — Jewell Jackson McCabe Copy Share Image
The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
Now, as at the beginning of the 19th century, there is a certain discovery of Eckhart and related figures. There are questions… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was… — Bonnie Bedelia Copy Share Image
Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. .… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and… — Rose George Copy Share Image
The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the… — Elgin Groseclose Copy Share Image
No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad,… — Jonathan Moyo Copy Share Image
The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way… — Edith Hall Copy Share Image
Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I think it would be over-exaggeration to think that there are millions of viruses ready to jump on us and bring us… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
In ancient times there was no public education, except that of the forum, the theater, and the street, and the general degree… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures,… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image