Centuries Quotes
950 quotes by 751 authors
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
— Karen Armstrong
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
— Chinua Achebe
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life…
— Emilie Autumn
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
— Lord Acton
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries,…
— Cleveland Abbe
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
— Charles Baudelaire
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We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
— John Berger
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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise…
— Annie Besant
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Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights…
— Andrea Bocelli
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds…
— James Buchan
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Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss and hiss about…
— Julie Burchill
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts…
— Albert Camus
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Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th…
— John Henrik Clarke
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For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It…
— Hillary Clinton
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Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without…
— Eric Alterman
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We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.
— Winston Churchill
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Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his…
— Calvin Coolidge
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There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding…
— John F. Kennedy
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James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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