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The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years. — Steven Pinker
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. — Vladimir Putin
For centuries, soup kitchens have been a way for local communities to offer a way of support, both nutritional and emotional to their less lucky… — Marcus Samuelsson
The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be. — Virat Kohli
Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we will understand dark… — Michio Kaku
While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that… — Henry Rollins
After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the… — Pedro Pierluisi
Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed… — Ami Bera
The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is something for all… — John Drane
The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet. — George William Russell
Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount… — Martin Jacques
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part… — Martin Jacques
The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and the rest of… — Martin Jacques
Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this… — Tristram Stuart
The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about the… — Neil MacGregor
The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which… — Noam Chomsky
I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It… — Tom Stoppard
The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor. — Elliott Abrams
I submit that in the few minutes that Joseph Smith was with the Father and the Son, he learned more of the nature of God… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based… — Sherwin B. Nuland
The first arrival of earthly life on another celestial body ranks as an epochal event not only for our generation, but in the history of… — Martin Rees
As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small… — Drew Gilpin Faust
What role did the Internet play in the Egyptian Revolution? People will be arguing about the answer to that question for decades if not centuries. — Rebecca MacKinnon
The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emerged from Central Asia, crossed the steppes to Anatolia, established… — Stephen Kinzer

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