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Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development. — Kenneth Scott Latourette
In everyÂ bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young… — Richard Louv
Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back… — Joe Klein
SeÃ¡n Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority while… — Joe McNally
It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to… — Peter Bart
It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was… — Maurice Nicoll
First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism… — Thomas E. Mann
History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth about more recent… — Robert Jensen
One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"... Epstein makes an… — Laurence Tribe
But, if recent history has taught us anything, itâ€™s that self-regulation doesnâ€™t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to… — James Surowiecki
In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in… — Vicente Fox
Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical… — David Holmgren
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental… — Yuan T. Lee
They claim that autism naturally occurs at about 18 months, when the MMR is routinely given, so the association is merely coincidental and not causal.… — Bernard Rimland
Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent… — Toshihiko Fukui
In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members of… — Colin Robinson
The recent discovery of highly specific antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications would not have been possible without the use of animal models — Herb Pardes
In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow… — Arthur Eddington
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a… — Marcel Proust
The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the… — Marshall McLuhan

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