Centuries Quotes

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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. — Ezra Pound
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new… — Terry Pratchett
It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier… — Terry Pratchett
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no… — Terry Pratchett
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year… — Marcel Proust
The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish their own objectives… — Vladimir Putin
I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions.… — Queen Rania of Jordan
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. — Ayn Rand
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. — Leo Rosten
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. — Bertrand Russell
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to… — Jonathan Sacks
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because… — Jonathan Sacks
Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and… — Marquis de Sade
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better… — Jerry Saltz
The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries. — Albert Schweitzer
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable… — Walter Scott
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of… — Pete Seeger
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were… — Haile Selassie
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. — Hu Shih
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the… — Thomas Sowell
The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred… — John Shelby Spong
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do… — G. M. Trevelyan
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? — Mark Twain
I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy… — Lech Walesa

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