The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Over time I began to realize that the level of cinema criticism in the last part of XX century in the United… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up… — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Copy Share Image
A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. So it would be in the voice of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I look at it this way... For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature:… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many… — Gail Levin Copy Share Image
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake...… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty… — Strobe Talbott Copy Share Image
Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Personally, I've been hearing all my life about the Serious Philosophical Issues posed by life extension, and my attitude has always been… — Patrick Hayden Copy Share Image
In California, for so long now, our families have been struggling in this economic environment, and Dianne Feinstein, been in office nearly… — Elizabeth Emken Copy Share Image
Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand?… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
During the 19th century, Britain fought two wars in unsuccessful attempts to subjugate the Afghans. When Britain finally drew a border between… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis,"… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they… — George Will Copy Share Image
Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The experience of a century and a half has demonstrated that our system of free government functions best when the maximum degree… — Brien McMahon Copy Share Image
In reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The most important issue of the 21st century will be the condition of the global environment. — Ian McHarg Copy Share Image
He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel....… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
The United Nations is actually a mid-20th century institution and much weaker than it was when it was originally created, because governments… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign. — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
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