Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The fact is that astrological beliefs go back at least 2,500 years. Now that should be a sufficiently long time for astrologers… — Richard E. Berendzen Copy Share Image
Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of… — William S. McFeely Copy Share Image
The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it… — Maria Nikiforova Copy Share Image
China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
We need to invest in peoples lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century. — Ann McLane Kuster Copy Share Image
In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live,… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
My fellow Americans, we can only build our bridge to the 21st century if we build it together, and if we're willing… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite… — Peter Brimelow Copy Share Image
The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century. — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century. — Tom Lenk Copy Share Image
As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force,… — Meles Zenawi Copy Share Image
To have a great university library near you with plenty of archives of all the journals that you want to research in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
You know, on the spectrum of religious belief, there is atheism - these are people that don't believe. There's theism - these… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men. — Henri Michaux Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the challenges of the 21st century can't be met without collective action. Agreement will almost never be easy, and results won't… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends. — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
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