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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
• When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
• 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
• Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty… — Charles Baudelaire
• We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. — John Berger
• For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the… — Annie Besant
• Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over… — Andrea Bocelli
• From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the… — James Buchan
• Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of… — Julie Burchill

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