Several Centuries Quotes

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Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves… — Lewis Thomas
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated… — Ralph Raico
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
The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. — David Antin
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past… — Gary Becker
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries. — Brian Ferneyhough
We are faced with having to learn again about interdependency and the need for rootedness after several centuries of having systematically-and proudly-dismantled our roots, ties,… — Paul L Wachtel
Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which… — Stockwell Day
The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries. — Albert Schweitzer
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in… — H.G. Wells
The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing… — Aldous Huxley
How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for several centuries?/ How… — Pablo Neruda
For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision… — Brennan Manning
The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce. — Iqbal Quadir
Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over… — Alex Campbell

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