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• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum
• Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe... — Bertrand Russell
• When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are… — Paul Hawken
• Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to… — Winston Churchill
• [Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by… — Winston Churchill
• For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of… — George Bernard Shaw
• I think it's time we recognized the Dark Ages are over. Galileo and Copernicus have been proven right. The world is in… — Chris Shays
• Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad.… — Sylvester Stallone
• Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions… — David Berlinski
• We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from… — Stewart Brand
• The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese… — William D. Leahy

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