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Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and… — Ferdinand Mount
Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know. — Milos Forman
Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th… — Pierre Schaeffer
In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they… — Aly Khan
Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation. — Dan Lipinski
When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings,… — Andy Pick
Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly… — Mark Hyman
Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end… — Karen Armstrong
When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast… — Eliot Spitzer
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the… — Adam Hochschild
The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again. — Dennis C. Blair
The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived… — Julian Fellowes
When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made… — Abraham Verghese
After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands. — Rita Levi-Montalcini
The basis on which the Good Friday agreement was constructed was in addressing those problems in the history of Northern Ireland, the social and constitutional… — John Reid
The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists… — Rebecca Solnit
Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs… — Thomas Keating
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone. — Theodore Zeldin
For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies. — Chiang Kai-shek
I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The rose is a flower of love. The world has acclaimed it for centuries. Pink roses are for love hopeful and expectant. White roses are… — Shinichi Suzuki
The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe, concealed from common observation yet...the centuries have established its Divine… — Isaac Newton
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old… — Clarence Day
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades… — Richard Dawkins
BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it… — Ambrose Bierce

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