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• For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
• If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st… — Karen Armstrong
• I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. — Neil Armstrong
• John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is… — Isaac Asimov
• When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men… — Chinua Achebe
• When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
• Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
• You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit… — Margaret Atwood
• It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses… — Emilie Autumn
• The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the… — Lord Acton
• As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;… — Cleveland Abbe
• Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker

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