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439 quotes by 397 authors

After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? — Robert Breault
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do… — Hubert H. Humphrey
It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the… — Saint Augustine
One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole… — Chrissie Hynde
Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose… — Thomas Carlyle
The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a… — Chuck Palahniuk
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed… — David H. Hubel
In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that… — John Zachary Young
I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights — Jay London
Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the… — Johann Gottfried Galle
God's nature is revealed most perfectly in the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded in the New Testament of the Bible, who… — George F. R. Ellis
250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin. — David M. Raup
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is… — George William Curtis
Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe… — Christopher Landsea
Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth.… — Bill McKibben
On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of… — John Fowles
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. — Peter Drucker
The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate… — Philip K. Chapman
With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back… — Donald Trump

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