Centuries Quotes

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The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power… — Unknown Author
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time… — Marin Mersenne
When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries. — Josemaria Escriva
We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a… — Paul Davies
The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions, including five centuries… — Barbara G. Walker
The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility... is… — Unknown Author
Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries,… — Paulo Coelho
For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until today we face… — Ezra Taft Benson
Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us… — Leonid Brezhnev
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if… — Unknown Author
The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my career I was privileged to… — Donald Bradman
The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self, the… — Thomas Berry
Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on this great mountain… — Lembit Opik
If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything… — Henry Beston
I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the… — Robert Muller
Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? — Erica Jong
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me… — Walt Whitman
Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes,… — Tony Kornheiser
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to… — Aldo Leopold

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