Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“It was possible to borrow British technology, and increasingly governments began to promote development. By the end of the nineteenth century, governments… — David Christian Copy Share Image
The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Here was St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States. How to build a hotel to meet the requirements of nineteenth… — Henry Flagler Copy Share Image
Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Although advertising began in the late nineteenth century with the development of the first branded products, its true explosion came in the… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
“Towards the end of the nineteenth century there appeared its two incredible figures; they were the pure Conservative and the pure Progressive;… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the mid to late nineteenth century, the gun manufacturers recognized that they had a limited market. Remember that this is a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more… — Paul Volcker Copy Share Image
Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the… — Elgin Groseclose Copy Share Image
By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Our truest and best American antiquity, as the Dominion History of the Union insisted, was the nineteenth century, whose household virtues and… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence,… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean,… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You have as much computing power in your iPhone as was available at the time of the Apollo missions. But what is… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages.… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even… — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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