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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a… — Christopher Morley
I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other… — Erwin McManus
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure… — Voltaire
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in… — Evelyn Waugh
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. — Nikola Tesla
you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never… — Cornelia Funke
The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious. — Kay Redfield Jamison
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic… — Boris Pasternak
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the… — Elizabeth Kostova
And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years,… — Lord Dunsany
This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed… — Libba Bray
His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his… — Walter de La Mare
The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. — David Rockefeller
All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin… — Irving Stone
Just be you-strong and honest. The rest falls into place if you do that. It always has. It always will. Remember that. No matter what… — Melissa Marr
How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for several centuries?/ How… — Pablo Neruda
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of… — Richard Dawkins
I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder:… — Roland Barthes
You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level… — Diane Setterfield
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist and that there is 'nothing' out there; in making these assertions,… — Karen Armstrong
I spent centuries I your arms. This time our joining will be controlled by me, and you will revel in the pleasure I can bring… — P. C. Cast
At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains.… — Ayn Rand
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they… — Hannah Arendt

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