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"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively… — Michio Kaku
"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the… — Thomas Jefferson
I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries. — Joschka Fischer
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries, — Janet Echelman
We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be… — Amilcar Cabral
Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of western culture… — Jaroslav Pelikan
We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can also model communities… — Fritjof Capra
The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all… — Ludwig von Mises
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must… — George Eliot
The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to… — Kurt Vonnegut
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs… — Charles W. Chesnutt
For centuries you have been taught that love-sponsored action arises out of the choice to be, do, and have whatever produces the highest good for… — Neale Donald Walsch
For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of… — Jamake Highwater
It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign. — Thor Heyerdahl
Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God has given us… — Sheri S. Tepper
Women have been held back and limited throughout the centuries. Creation could not have been rendered, not even considered, let alone be brought into manifestation… — Alice Coltrane
Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid,… — Wendy Doniger
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries. — Georg Buchner
There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back. — Maurice Maeterlinck
Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded… — Wellington Mara
The fact that science led me to spiritual insight is appropriate because the latest discoveries in physics and cell research are forging new links between… — Bruce H. Lipton
Human myopia cannot be overcome simply by well-meaning attempts to build [climate] models that purport to peer decades and centuries ahead. Action taken now, in… — Colin Robinson
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now. — George Perkins Marsh
Anti-Semitic publications have existed in Germany for centuries. A book I had, written by Dr. Martin Luther, was, for instance, confiscated. Dr. Martin Luther would… — Julius Streicher

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