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In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form… — Mike Figgis
At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of… — H. L. Mencken
If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am… — Arthur Schopenhauer
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food… — Friedrich Nietzsche
... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom. — Gary Saul Morson
The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on… — Wallace Stegner
The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware,… — Simone Weil
To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at… — Simone Weil
There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how… — Giacomo Leopardi
The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of… — Lewis Mumford
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards… — Umberto Eco
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past… — Douglas Coupland
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging… — Azar Nafisi
For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state. — Nursultan Nazarbayev
During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent… — Nancy Pearcey
I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because… — Amy Smart
Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors… — Amy Waldman
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a… — James Young
Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a… — John Walford

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