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Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for… — John Dewey
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries.… — John Harvey Kellogg
Enjoy music. Not the kind that rocks and rolls, but the music of the masters, the music that has lived through the centuries, the music… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries. — Leo Tolstoy
Art can have connections over many centuries or thousands of years. — Wolfgang Laib
The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a… — Isaac Asimov
The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant rush from the… — Frederick Douglass
I would like to be remembered not as anyone unique or special, but as part of a great team in this country that has struggled… — Nelson Mandela
It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings, as the equivalents… — Bernard Lewis
The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built… — H.G. Wells
With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land… — Jules Verne
Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries. — Tom Tancredo
There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries. — Mary Catherwood
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite… — Abraham Robinson
In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a former day the… — Stefan Zweig
America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain way, a certain… — James Norwood Pratt
Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as… — Sylvia Plath
In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that… — Doc Hastings
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. — S I Hayakawa
Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard)… — C.S. Lewis
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to… — Stephen Ambrose
From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with… — Tom Turner
Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And… — Charles Stuart Calverley
Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from… — Thomas Sowell
I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes… — James D'arcy

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