Three Centuries Quotes
29 quotes by 29 authors
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We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
— John Berger
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Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his…
— Calvin Coolidge
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This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries…
— Adolf Hitler
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There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an…
— Thomas Huxley
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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the…
— Arthur Koestler
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I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me…
— Walt Whitman
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with…
— Adrienne Rich
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the…
— Edward Abbey
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The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself on…
— S. T. Joshi
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Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing…
— Julian Schwinger
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Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in…
— Simone Weil
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Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above…
— John Nelson Darby
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The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If Jesus remained dead, how can you explain the reality of the Christian church and its phenomenal growth in the first three centuries of the…
— Henry F. Schaefer, III
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I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.
— Benjamin Franklin
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It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices…
— Herman Melville
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Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries.…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of…
— Lewis Mumford
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Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing…
— Eric Alterman
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All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries…
— Peter Warlock
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