Every Century Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
— Gloria Steinem
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Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.
— Helen Thompson Woolley
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Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.
— Shoshana Zuboff
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This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been…
— Prem Rawat
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Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted…
— Gustav Freytag
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To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout human history. To…
— David Hawkins
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We collected in a group in front of their door, and we experienced within ourselves a grief that was new for us, the ancient grief…
— Primo Levi
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The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is…
— Reynolds Price
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A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making…
— David Hume
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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
— Gertrude Stein
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...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and…
— Baroness Orczy
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What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of…
— John Adams
Who Wrote These Every Century Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Every Century Quotes as follows: