From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Before the modern era of copyright and intellectual property, stories were things held in common, to be passed from hand to hand… — Anne Jamison Copy Share Image
We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope. — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
If [Hillary] Clinton wins, history will also be made: She would be the first female U.S. president, of course, but also the… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
“The old man might have been drunk, but he was right. Outsiders have robbed and exploited the people of the Congo ever… — Tim Butcher Copy Share Image
“modern era of multivalent "secularity" and "exclusive humanism" in which we live, a shift from the premodern, socially embedded "porous self" to… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, humans believed that authority came from the gods. Then, during the modern era, humanism gradually shifted authority from… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Until the late modern era, more than 90 percent of humans were peasants” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The Olympics have been an amazing part of Los Angeles' history. In many ways in 1932, they put us on the map… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
I knew Lewis Hamilton when he was just a young driver trying to make his name and I have seen his personality… — David Coulthard Copy Share Image
In many ways we've become the Babylon of the modern era. We learned our lessons at the feet of Nebuchadnezzar himself. It's… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
There was never any question about Scholesy's quality as a footballer. He was known as the little ginger magician in the youth… — Steve Bruce Copy Share Image
“I reviewed in thought the modern era of raps and apparitions, beginning with the knockings of 1848, at the hamlet of Hydesville,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology. — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The Hillary Clinton story basically is this. And see how similar this sounds to the old days before the modern era of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Until the late modern era, more than 90 per cent of humans were peasants who rose each morning to till the land… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Few losing V.P. candidates in the modern era have walked away with their reputations and future political prospects significantly enhanced, and some… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Germans will soon be getting 30 percent of their power from renewable energy sources. Many smaller countries are beating that, but Germany… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For any footballer who plays for Real Madrid in the modern era, the prospect of leaving the club must feel like a… — Paul Scholes Copy Share Image
The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
“The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image