Two Centuries Quotes
49 quotes by 42 authors
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That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that…
— Doc Hastings
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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past…
— Douglas Coupland
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If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only…
— Stephen Hawking
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For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our…
— Virgil Goode
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Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.
— Russel Honore
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This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in…
— James Henry Breasted
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If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as…
— Sam Walter Foss
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If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government —…
— Walter Cronkite
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You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change…
— Barack Obama
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We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could,…
— Melina Mercouri
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How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find…
— Anna Quindlen
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Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a…
— Frantz Fanon
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All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but…
— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that:…
— Ronald Reagan
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Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into…
— Charles Jaffe
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Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security,…
— Ross Garnaut
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For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.
— Maureen Dowd
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In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.
— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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