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I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.
by John Templeton (Businessman, American , born in 1912) keywords: ago, back, centuries, century, convinced, descendants, field, look, now, our, pity, really, same, science, toward, two, us , will With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.
by William Irwin Thompson (Philosopher, American , born in 1938) keywords: centuries, change, civilization, emergence, hundreds, knowing, millennia, rate, science, shifted, thousands, universe, way , years For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
by Mac Thornberry (Politician, American , born in 1958) keywords: answered, around, call, centuries, freedom, globe, lead, more, our, own, quest, repeatedly, since, states, than, two, united , winning Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
by G. M. Trevelyan (Historian, English , born in 1876) keywords: anything, been, cannot, centuries, done, enough, god, ignorant, impossible, may, never, person, someone, tell, thing, very, waiting , young Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that's what we're needing! We've needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o'clock.
by Kurt Tucholsky (Journalist, German , born in 1890) keywords: arteries, audience, bleeding, centuries, clock, cries, freedom, needed, needing, nine, our, over, revolution, rock, shaking, stage, thing , whole But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
by Mark Twain (Author, American , born in 1970) keywords: centuries, common, eighteen, had, humanity, most, needed, pray, prays, satan , sinner For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.
by Ginny B. Waitekeywords: bloodshed, centuries, chance, cry, emerge, freedoms, had, heard, lived, oppressed, out, rights, shadows, their, tyranny, vulnerable , world In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.
by Andrzej Wajda (Director, Polish , born in 1926) keywords: centuries, characteristics, common, developed, economic, even, forty, historical, included, our, partitions, preserved, reality, republic, some, these, time, traits, were, worst , years I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
by Lech Walesa (Activist, Polish , born in 1943) keywords: armies, belong, brutal, centuries, crossed, experienced, force, frontiers, had, hardships, invading, many, mere, nation, over, past, polish, reacted, reverses, silence, sovereign, state, succumb, sympathy, were, which , world All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.
by Peter Warlock (Composer, English , born in 1894) keywords: ago, already, centuries, modern, more, much, music, old, old-fashioned, once, sounds, than, three, were, which, works, written , yesterday I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
by Simone Weil (Philosopher, French , born in 1909) keywords: am, becoming, cannot, catholic, centuries, christian, civilization, consider, course, degraded, european, greek, idea, nourished, our, renounce, roots, something, thought, which , without The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.
by Robert Welchkeywords: american, bound, centuries, come, course, destruction, did, follow, republic, rome, same , still We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
by H. G. Wells (Author, English , born in 1866) keywords: any, centuries, century, changes, conception, education, fifteenth, graduation, half-way, hardly, living, made, organization, our, out, several, suggest, universities , university Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.
by Andrew Wiles (Mathematician, English , born in 1953) keywords: centuries, college, during, had, many, methods, problem, reached, realized, studied, then, those , thought Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: centuries, figure, glasses, looking, man, natural, possessing, power, reflecting, served, size, these, twice , women 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.
by James Young (Musician, American , born in 1949) keywords: ago, centuries, country, ethic, four, know, least, moment, needless, out, past, puritan, say, started, tell , thing I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
by Emile Zola (Novelist, French , born in 1840) keywords: am, beauty, care, centuries, concerned, great, intensity, life, little, perfection , struggle Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.
by Stefan Zweig (Writer, Austrian , born in 1881) keywords: centuries, come, course, decide, energy, history, mind, often, person, presence, remote , spotlight
