Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us -… — Michael Bennett Copy Share Image
A vision of Europe fit for the 21st century and a practical plan to deliver strong rights, decent jobs and livelihoods, with… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century? — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A word to the wise to all the children of the twentieth century, whether their concern be pediatrics or geriatrics, whether they… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Corporation 2020 is an indispensable contribution to the global transformation of finance and corporations as humanity re-integrates centuries of knowledge and continues… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
We would take something old and tired and common - coffee - and weave a sense of romance and community around it.… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century. — Brian May Copy Share Image
To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
History down through the centuries has proved again and again that there can be but one outcome to a struggle for selfish… — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr Copy Share Image
Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller -… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
My collection of historical fashion consists of about 10,000 pieces - dresses and accessories, from 18th century to today. The main focus… — Alexander Vassiliev Copy Share Image
First generation Indian immigrants are mass guinea pigs. When a race that subsisted on plants for centuries subsists on a meat-dominated diet,… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
I try to find a style that matches the book. In the Baroque Cycle, I got infected with the prose style of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving… — James Cook Copy Share Image
The journey to a different future must begin by defining the problem differently than we have done until now. . The task… — Theo Colborn Copy Share Image
The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation… — Khabibullo Abdusamatov Copy Share Image
Militarily, the great movements of resistance against colonial powers in the 18th and 19th century were almost all from Sufis: Imam Shamil… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)...… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
“One legislator accused me of having a 19th-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
The Smithsonian should box and preserve Tim McGraw's Nashville den for a future exhibit entitled 'Early 21st Century American Man Cave.' — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
What Smith and Marx have in common is that they were both philosophers of great vision and perceptiveness, deep humanity, and a… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
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