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Century Quotes by Simone Weil
- Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in…
- The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware,…
- To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at…
- I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries…
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- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the… — Jack Kemp
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. — Neil Armstrong
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- 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
- Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of… — Andrea Bocelli