Two Centuries Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries. — Russel Honore
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
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
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
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order â€” preferably a system of world government â€”… — Walter Cronkite
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both. — Maureen Dowd
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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