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Workplaces need to respond to the reality of family life in the 21st century, and allowing employees to have seven sick days… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
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Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived.… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century. — Daniel Kleppner Copy Share Image
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After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Literate households in the 17th century would have had the Bible, John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress," and a couple of other books.… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
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I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
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Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
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HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, ‘He who lets fear rule him, has… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
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Literature, the study of literature in English in the 19th century, did not belong to literary studies, which had to do with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you… — Antonio Villaraigosa Copy Share Image
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