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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,… — Aldo Leopold
Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there… — Henry David Thoreau
When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical… — Charles Lyell
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the… — Arthur Koestler
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our… — Mark Twain
I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out… — Charles Bukowski
Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in… — Charles R. Swindoll
The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip;… — Charles R. Swindoll
According to Muslim teachings, God first revealed His word in the Holy Qur'an to the prophet, Muhammad, during the month of Ramadan. That word has… — George W. Bush
Man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority of love. No… — Rajneesh
During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later became involved.… — Bernard Lewis
History down through the centuries has proved again and again that there can be but one outcome to a struggle for selfish power against forces… — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is a gross violation… — Unknown Author
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward… — John Templeton
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before. It… — Augustus De Morgan
The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are… — Fritz Haber
One area of the Book of Mormon that does bother some is what they see as anachronistic doctrine; that the Book of Mormon has Christian… — Daniel C. Peterson
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve… — Andre Michel Lwoff
True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries. — Franz Cumont

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