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“The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.”

Ifs Has Beens Church Middle Century Built Plenty Decline Secular Mantras Demise Bursting 18th Century

Author:N. T. Wright

“Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.”

Should Has Beens Together Poor Results Cities Wonderful Century Built Stones Should Have London Bricks Should Have Been Picturesque

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

“O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.”

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

“In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.”

Years Has Beens Cases Century Built Towns Passing Passings Enhancement Degeneration

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.”

“The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.”

War Wisdom Politics Wealth Half Economy Mankind Century Benefits Built Fixed Liberalism Divided Immense Accumulation

Book:The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace

“Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.”

Humanity Language Century Wall Built Impulse Destructive

Book:Parthian Words

Source: Parthian Words

“Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday were detested and the obscene become the classics of today.”

Men Doe Self Today Justice Century Creation Expression Built Bounds Yesterday Monument Self Expression Obscene

Author:Mathew Tobriner

“This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing. We have been lulled into addiction and everything is built around it and you have to break out of it and think outside of the box.”

Thinking Has Beens Race Break Century Built Addiction Boxes Capability 21st Century Break Out

Author:Neil Young

“Like any classic you hope to get rid of all the varnish that's built up over the centuries where people expect it to be in a certain way. It's a mighty play. It's about a very old king who also happens to be a very old father, so you've got the state and the domestic levels in there together. It's a story in extremis. Everyone knows the end, there's only two people left alive.”

People Knows Way Two Ends States Play Stories Happens Together Certain Father Left Levels Alive Century Kings Built Classic

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic work building more and more destructive weapons, is no civilization at all. It needs a radical transformation from the heart outwards. It needs to outgrow and outlaw war just as in the last century it outlawed slavery. The human race has outgrown war, but it hardly knows it yet.”

“Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any other man of the nineteenth century laid down his life for the people whom living he had served as well-built upon his early study of the Bible.”

People Men Years Wells Study Greater Four Century Built Patient Burden Shoulders Four Years Weary Nineteenth Century

Book:A Square Deal

Source: A Square Deal

“Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.”

World Century Late Built Dependent 20th Century Metro Escalators

Author:Robert James Thomson

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