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The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness… — Max Lerner
Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into… — Charles Jaffe
Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing… — Dave Barry
Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing… — Dave Barry
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own… — Janine Benyus
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security,… — Ross Garnaut
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to… — Andre Malraux
But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new,… — Henri Poincare
Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands… — John F. Kennedy
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both. — Maureen Dowd
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all. — Gregory Maguire
When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western… — Arne Glimcher
In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life there and even… — George Smoot
The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce. — Iqbal Quadir
Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think… — Nicholas A. Christakis
Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived… — Robert Fogel
In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much… — Robert Fogel
We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together, and every now and then, down the centuries, this… — Dario Fo
All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them,… — Umberto Eco
A catechism is simply a tool for teaching the fundamentals of the faith. Unlike a creed or confession, a catechism uses questions and answers. Many… — Kevin DeYoung
When we use old confessions and catechisms, we help teach our people that their faith is an old faith, shared by millions over many centuries.… — Kevin DeYoung
The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated… — Clare Balding

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