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“in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.”

Lasts Courses Asks Cases Society Century Concern Scientist Forgotten Meaningless Pretext Dizzy Pertinent Pertinent Questions

Author:Arthur Koestler

“We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.”

Known Power Century Solitude Forgotten Transcendent

Author:Susan Cain

“The belief that happiness has to be deserved has led to centuries of pain, guilt, and deception. So firmly have we clung to this single, illusory belief that we've almost forgotten the real truth about happiness. So busy are we trying to deserve happiness that we no longer have much time for ideas such as: Happiness is natural, happiness is a birthright, happiness is free, happiness is a choice, happiness is within, and happiness is being. The moment you believe that happiness has to be deserved, you must toil forevermore.”

Source: Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast

“I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.”

Source: Important speeches: being a collection of most significant speeches delivered from 1922 to 1951

“If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.”

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Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.”

World Different Dream Dies Names Cities Century Forgotten Officials Temples Abandoned Slips Goddess Idle Our Dreams Altars Unemployed Different Names

Book:Women & madness

Source: Women & madness

“A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers of the twentieth century, and the professional philosophers will almost all be forgotten, because they're just shallow and wrong, and their ideas aren't very powerful.”

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Author:Marvin Minsky

“Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.”

World Dream Sound Half Week Century Forgotten Wave Crowds Spots Fairy Retired Cliffs Sunny Lanes Nineteenth Century Noisy Old World Quaint Drowsy

Book:Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

Source: Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

“In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.”

World Spirit Animal Psychology One Thing Modern Century Keys Behavior Understood Concepts Forgotten Ecology Living Things Reduction Modern Science Animal Behavior

Author:Terence McKenna

“We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.”

Way Has Beens Art Stills Hard Age Past Dies Successful Alive Century Baby Lessons Forgotten Staying Staying Alive Art Of Living Hard Way Boomers Baby Boomer Learning The Hard Way

Author:Terry Pratchett