In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch… — Wim Crouwel Copy Share Image
Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By… — Julian Simon 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
When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our povertyis… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ...… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century the Reformed tradition was developed in several ways including additional confessions (Barmen, the Belhar Confession, the 1967 Confession… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Modern electronic mass media had been a defining piece of the twentieth-century experience that served an important democratic function—presenting Americans with a… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
“All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the Twentieth century's moral poverty which… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
