The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early… — John Hamill Copy Share Image
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E.U. need to be nurtured and cultivated and protected and fought for because the achievements that we've seen on this continent, in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my… — Wojciech Jaruzelski Copy Share Image
WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
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I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
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When I told you I wanted to try, I spoke the truth. When I turned away, it was for my former court,… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
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The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In the course of the twenty-first century what may be called the "capital wage" could be added to the labor wage and… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and… — Bryan Ward-Perkins Copy Share Image
This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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Gwen smiled. "Hardly. Bedraggled is being in the full throes of nicotine withdrawal, and after a week on a bus with a… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We… — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
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