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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WELLS

Century Fifteen Half Live Not Out Suggest University Our Way Year
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATON

Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
BRAM STOKER

Century Deceive Kill Mere Modernity Old Own Power Sense Unless
Aging will create the music of the coming century.
BETTY FRIEDAN

Age Century Creation Music One Liner
Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
E. M. FORSTER

Carnal Century Embracement Fudss Made Marriage Nearer Sometimes Think Understanding
Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Century Civilization Country Dedicate Impossible Inspiration Itself Salesman Suire Traveling Wisdom
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
BILL VAUGHAN

Bird Century Firsts God Next
The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
JOHN BERGER

Century Close Disappear Helpless Horizon Other People See
Bohr’s influence on the physics and the physicists of our century was stronger than that of anyone else, even than that of Albert Einstein.
WERNER HEISENBERG

Anyone Century Even Influence Physical Scientist Stronger That
If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.
BOB DOLE

Aggression Century Lessons
That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Belief Century Church
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
P. J. O'ROURKE

Atomic Bed Big Bomb Century Idea Test
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
BRAM STOKER

Century Revenge Sides
[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Century Emotion Pain
There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Bureaucracy Century Mediocrity
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
LORD ACTON

Bank Century Down Issue People Sooner Swept
For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
LORD ACTON

Absolutism Attempt Century Children Discover Function Government Modern Opposite State
Though we love to think that we are civilized & developed than that of people lived centuries ago.
ABU SUFYAN IBN HARB

Century Civilized Development People Reality Running Thinking
18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.
BILL BRYSON

Alternatives Century Scientist
Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature.
ACHIM STEINER

Century Fabricated Independent People Prowess Reality Technological
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
SYLVIA EARLE

Century During Has Been History Human Learn Middle More Ocean Preceding Since Twenty
. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.
LORD ACTON

Century Civilization Delicate Free Mature Mean Nation Pass Resolve Scarcely Since Term
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
BARRY LOPEZ

Century Despise Quality
The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
A. HUNTER DUPREE

Admiration Century Dominate Fear Gothic Government Landscape Scene Science
The proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries – how mathematics is one of humanity’s long continuous conversations with itself.
BARRY MAZUR

Century Humanity Last Long Theorem
We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANT

Best Century Event Inform Last Sixty
Composers can do things that weren’t allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules.
AARON ZIGMAN

Allow Break Century Composer

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