Centuries Quotes
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Century Quotes
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Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
Henry Louis Mencken
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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they`re dead.
Leo Rosten
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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 eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.
Charles A. Jaffe
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
Bill Lovejoy
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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
Andre Malraux
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Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek
Tom Robbins
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief ...
Richard Dawkins
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Marlon Brando is maybe the greatest actor of the last two centuries. But his mind is much more important than the acting thing. The way that he looks at things, doesn`t judge things, the way that he assesses things. He`s as important as, uh... who`s impor...
Johnny Depp
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There`s a special excitement in playing a man who made a hole in history large enough to be remembered centuries after he died.
Charlton Heston
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I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics but for our contributions to the human spirit.
John Kennedy
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You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
James Young
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Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best o...
Andrea Dworkin
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Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
Yancy Butler
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Walter Scott
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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
Ahmad Shah
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
Allison Daly
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Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with s...
Alfie Kohn
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Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
Martin Heidegger
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There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.
Alex Rios
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The West hasn`t reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
Samuel P. Huntington
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The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
Alex Hittle
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The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
Max Lerner
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The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
Alex Klein
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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were u...
John Williamson
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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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The cup of Ireland`s misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
Alain Cayzac
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The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.
Robert Welch
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The Air Force is to be applauded for investigating technologies that may have value for national security. But wormholes, negative energies, warped space-time, etc., require futuristic technologies centuries to millions of years ahead of ours. The only th...
Michio Kaku
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The Air Force is to be applauded for investigating technologies that may have value for national security, ... But wormholes, negative energies, warped space-time, etc., require futuristic technologies centuries to millions of years ahead of ours. The onl...
Michio Kaku
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