Century Quotes

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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. — Neil Armstrong
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who… — Isaac Asimov
When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different… — Chinua Achebe
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have… — Margaret Atwood
It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life… — Emilie Autumn
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. — Lord Acton
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries,… — Cleveland Abbe
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the… — Balthus
I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic. — John Banville
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. — Neal Barnard
And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came… — Dave Barry
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. — Charles Baudelaire
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to… — Martha Beck
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. — Henry Ward Beecher

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