Four Centuries Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the Atlantic slave trade…
— David W. Blight
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It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million,…
— Richard Leakey
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"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries,
— Janet Echelman
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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…
— Simone Weil
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You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a…
— James Young
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Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
— Georges Braque
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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had…
— Jean Genet
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We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater…
— Romeo LeBlanc
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After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the…
— Pedro Pierluisi
Who Wrote These Four Centuries Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Four Centuries Quotes as follows: