Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
I look forward to the time when the churches come to celebrate and honour the work of animal protection as an imperative… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
Most death now happens in hospitals. It's been medicalized. It happens away from where we deal with it directly. And that's a… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
'A Naval History of Britain' which begins in the 7th century has to explain what it means by Britain. My meaning is… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The Notion Of A Contemporary Epiphany To Me Is Very Exciting, Because It's A Sort Of Biblical Thing. It's Something That Has… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
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Human myopia cannot be overcome simply by well-meaning attempts to build [climate] models that purport to peer decades and centuries ahead. Action… — Colin Robinson Copy Share Image
The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century,… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment,… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work. — Geoffrey Blainey Copy Share Image
If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook. — Max Levchin Copy Share Image
The Bin Ladens must not be confused with authentic jihad - it's quite something else. If you want an example of external… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever. — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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