There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And… — John McCain Copy Share Image
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Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
“For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“If we would examine our hearts and minds, plant our feet firmly on the ground like this ageless for tree, and lift… — Kimila Kay Copy Share Image
Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is greatly in need of stimuli to distract him, he lives alone and gets bored, or, to speak with… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“...it was not considered right for a man not to drink, although drink was a dangerous thing. On the contrary, not to… — Eoghan Odinsson Copy Share Image
“Your Kentuckian of the present day is a good illustration of the doctrine of transmitted instincts and peculiarities. His fathers were mighty… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“We have a long distance to travel,' said the Angel of Death to our friend Gil, as soon as they had left… — Pedro Antonio de Alarcón Copy Share Image
THE PATH IS exceedingly vast. From ancient times to the present day, even the greatest sages were unable to perceive and comprehend… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“A poet's marriage to his time is a forced marriage. A marriage of which - as of any suffered violence - he… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
“History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions;… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“It seems, however, to be otherwise with stronger and livelier thinkers who are still eager for life. In that they side against… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man. — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
It really never came up, but I think that in present-day America, they're - you know, and I touched on it in… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
“We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If adjustment is necessary, it should be made primarily with regard to the position the homosexual occupies in present-day society, and society… — Harry Benjamin Copy Share Image
Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The truth was that nature had endowed them with a larger share of brains than was common in their circle, and had… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Even present-day fuels possess more than enough energy, if only we knew how to release and use it. Just as molecular energy… — P. E. Cleator Copy Share Image
We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“It takes three or four years before the present day sinks in to you as a novelist. It has not just to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
We call the heroes of the past heroes of production.We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'.Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem… — Leo Lowenthal Copy Share Image
Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality,… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
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