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For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and falsify… — Mikhail Bakunin
I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the… — Thomas de Quincey
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that it… — Clive Bell
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding.… — Jacques Attali
Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing… — Julian Schwinger
It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them… — Herbert Hoover
Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitlers passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed. — Robert Runcie
Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus,… — Richard Preston
People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and… — Robert Anton Wilson
Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the… — Kurt Tucholsky
This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all… — Mark Doty
Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties… — Frederick Rolfe
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained… — Arrian
It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less… — Daniel Pipes
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still… — Jared Diamond
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices,… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place. — Gary Zukav
He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who walks far… — Ibn Khaldun
Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes great effort and… — Samael Aun Weor
Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries,… — Unknown Author
Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were… — Christopher Alexander
When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you and your children… — Grigori Rasputin
Corporation 2020 is an indispensable contribution to the global transformation of finance and corporations as humanity re-integrates centuries of knowledge and continues its inevitable transition… — Achim Steiner
Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of… — Margaret Visser
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh

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