Centuries Quotes

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It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million,… — Richard Leakey
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind.… — Carl Jung
More than ever before, in our country, this is the age of the individual. Endowed with the accumulated knowledge of centuries, armed with all the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility. — Jorge Luis Borges
But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in… — Aaron Swartz
And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
The orthodox school has witnessed for centuries that nature itself has never once cured any existing disease with another dissimilar one, however intense. What must… — Samuel Hahnemann
For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but… — Errico Malatesta
Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always. — Errico Malatesta
Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely… — Darrel Ray
If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very… — Romain Rolland
All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that enable us to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over… — Wendell Willkie
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance. — Emile Zola
Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud. — William H. Calvin
The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the… — Joseph J. Romm
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the… — William Lloyd Garrison
But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be… — Nikola Tesla
For centuries, Jews have been unjustly treated and despised. It is time they were treated with justice and humanity. God wills it and the Church… — Pope Pius XII

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