Best Century Qoutes
3251 Century quotes by 2144 unique authors
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If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal…
— Orrin Hatch
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I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against…
— Hugo Black
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For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and…
— Douglas Adams
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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
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Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
— Barry Humphries
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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
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In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will…
— Barbara Mikulski
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Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy…
— Bernard Lewis
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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
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As we begin the 21st century, the Hubble space telescope is providing us with information about as yet uncharted regions of the universe and the…
— Floyd E. Bloom
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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.
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Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time that we stood…
— Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison
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There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste…
— William J. Clinton
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The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is…
— Anthony Kennedy
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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
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...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
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The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described…
— Ernest L. Boyer
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What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year after year and…
— Dan Shaughnessy
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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
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Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for the long-term, the…
— John Templeton
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You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.
— Baltasar Gracian
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The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century.
— Unknown Author
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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
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Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for…
— Hannes Alfven
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