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For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong.… — Gary Snyder
I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to… — John McCain
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like… — George Hickenlooper
I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the… — Caroline Knapp
[My mother] speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post… — Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of… — George Orwell
In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the… — John Hume
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several… — James Madison
Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet… — John Dickinson
The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold… — Otto von Bismarck
I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you… — William James
There are several types of movie space, the three most important being: (1) the field of the screen, (2) the psychological space of the actor,… — Manny Farber
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several… — John von Neumann
It’s over 800 billion dollars that we have expended [in Iraq]. I believe that Iraq should pay us back for the money that we spent,… — Michele Bachmann
Beauty will result from the form and the correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to each… — Unknown Author
What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up… — Kurt Cobain
People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and… — Vaclav Havel
While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they… — Gordon Cooper
Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims,… — Vladimir Kramnik
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? — Cornelia Funke
I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere. — Aravind Adiga
I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for… — Ann Patchett
Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred… — Mark Helprin
I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed — Gavrilo Princip
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York… — Terry Brooks

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