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“The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.”

Years Has Beens Book Century Nine Insane Music Business Audio Audio Recording

Author:Stephen King

“The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.”

Mind Has Beens Real States Pay Century Materials Property University Dues Rational State Of Mind Heritage Location Salary Rational Thought Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“We're Catholics before we're Democrats. We're Catholics before we're Republicans. We're even Catholics before we're Americans, because we know that God has a demand on us prior to any government demand on us. And this has been the story of the martyrs through the centuries.”

Knows Has Beens Stories Government Century Republican Demand Catholic Democrat Martyr

Author:Charles J. Chaput

“All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to the thirteenth-century and has been described as Britain's oldest secrecy provision) commits them to keep all advice to the monarch secret.”

Has Beens Stills Secret Advice Century Commit Ministers Britain Senior Secrecy Provision Oath Cabinets Monarchs Counsellors

Author:Clive Ponting

“It should come as no surprise that writers take an interest in punctuation. I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, "I should have used fewer semicolons" - and although I have spent months fruitlessly trying to track down the chap responsible, I believe it none the less. If it turns out that no one actually did say this on their deathbed, I shall certainly save it up for my own.”

Ifs Should Trying Believe Has Beens Used Turns I Believe Interest My Own Century Dying Months Should Have Responsible Surprise Track Fewer 20th Century Deathbed Punctuation Chaps

Author:Lynne Truss

“Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.”

Wells Has Beens Process Pay Attention Known Century Serious Research Characteristics Principal Well Known Educator

Book:The school book: for people who want to know what all the hollering is about

Source: The school book: for people who want to know what all the hollering is about

“It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?”

Mind Firsts Has Beens Different Reason Facts Century Honor Depression Suicide Deeds Accepted Insane Fighter Inevitable Honorable Inevitable Death

Author:Emilie Autumn

“Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love. Willingness to compromise with others ways of living and cooperation in common tasks, these make living happy and fruitful. Certain modes of behaviour have been laid down and proved beneficial by centuries of practice.”

Way Has Beens Certain Common Practice Century Tasks And Love Down And Tolerance Compromise Glorious Willingness Cooperation Behaviour Beneficial Live Happy

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with our increasing interdependent world. On moral grounds alone there can be no justification for the 20th century level of killing. To settle disputes without violence must become the primary goal of foreign policy for every nation.”

“Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American political leaders in the late 18th century been farsighted enough to find compromises that would have held the empire together.”

Thinking Has Beens Country States Enough Together Political United Leader United States Century Late Compromise Empires Political Leaders 18th Century

Author:Matthew Yglesias

“Why do I wear tennis shoes? That's two questions. Do I wear tennis shoes? The answer to that question is, "Yes." "Why?" That's a question philosophers have been pondering for centuries.”

Has Beens Two Answers Century Shoes Philosopher Tennis Pondering Tennis Shoes

Author:Irwin Corey

“Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!”

Has Beens Ideas Moments Known Century Ignorant Single Mom

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century!”

Ifs Littles Has Beens Mankind Century Moon Gold Shining 19th Century

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."”

“The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.”

“Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers, there has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit, there has followed inevitably a fresh endeavor in the work of evangelizing the world.”

World Heart Has Beens Spirit Company Century Believer Endeavor

Author:Adoniram Judson Gordon

“I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed, which was basically anybody over the age of 30, "One of the great minds of the 12th century", and one day I thought, "I don't know anything about the 12 century." So I started buying books, reading about it, and I discovered it was a period of great flowering, it was a Renaissance before what we think is the Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century.”

Thinking Knows Mind Has Beens Book Age Reading Century Periods One Day Buying Italian Fashionable Book Reading Renaissance Flowering Great Minds Italian Renaissance Buying Books

Author:Yitzhak Rabin

“As a woman and as a feminist, I am very well aware of how women have been oppressed and segregated for a thousand of years and I bristle at the fact in 21 century Australia women are still being kept out of public life and I'm sorry, when you wear a burqa you cannot attribute to society as much as you can without it.”

Years Wells Has Beens Stills Facts Century Thousand Sorry Feminist Australia Attributes Oppressed I'm Sorry Public Life Burqa

Author:Jacques Myard

“Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the area of free speech, that have been achieved by centuries of popular struggle, are to be admired.”

Has Beens Country America Term Struggle Century Speech Areas Free Speech

Author:Noam Chomsky

“While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business, it has no simple way to uncover how its product encoded data. The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible. Knowledge has been destroyed.”

Way Has Beens Stills Used Certain Lost Simple Company Creative Century Produce Products Program Destroyed Data Code Software Creative Work Inaccessible Simple Ways

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.”

Men Want Has Beens Liberty Century Great Things Great Men

Author:Victor Hugo

“A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.”

Men World May Has Beens Said Century

Book:Essays: Moral, Political and Literary

Source: Essays: Moral, Political and Literary

“The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not a prejudice that governed science from the beginning, but a lesson that has been learned through centuries of experience in the study of nature.”

Has Beens Facts Shows Past Religious Study Century Lessons Scientist Prejudice Skepticism Newton

Book:Facing Up

Source: Facing Up

“In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.”

Has Beens Enough Century England Expected France Newton

Author:Jean le Rond d'Alembert

“The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully seen as compressed, truncated, or fragmented imitations of other verbal forms, especially the play, story, public oration, and personal essay.”

Has Beens Play Stories Past Form Written Century Imitation Essays Over The Past Fragmented Personal Essays

Author:Robert Scholes

“The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of societies run by and for the working class in the two great communist revolutions in Russia and China.”

“The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal legal order of status-based rights.”

Has Beens Law Order Race Rights Century Revolution Gender Civil Rights Rising Paradox Expanding In-laws Orientation Great Liberal

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“The first thing, the very very first thing, "Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of unconsciousness." Each one's is different. Somebody is sex-obsessed. In a country like India, where for centuries sex has been repressed, that has become almost a universal characteristic; everybody is obsessed with sex. Somebody is obsessed with anger, and somebody else is obsessed with greed. You have to watch which is your basic obsession.”

Firsts Has Beens Different Country Sex Watches Century Universal India Greed Obsession Obsessed Characteristics Repressed Unconsciousness Undoing

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.”

Has Beens Ideas Lost Left Wise Century Originals Mediums Tested Useful Things

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.”

Has Beens Poor Greater Century Charity Jew Obligation Captives

Author:Elliott Abrams

“Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly - not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.”

Has Beens Might Past Form Humanity Goal Results Effort Existence Century Solutions Ultimate Universal Prepared Crystals Ultimate Goal Betterment Perversion Cumulative

Author:Nikola Tesla

“I just wonder what has been the effect on the human soul of nearly a century in which we have regarded sex on screen as generally better than the sex we actually have, the sex which is, in fact, much better than anything we have seen in the movies, becuase it's sex, after all, and in the movies, it isn't.”

Humans Has Beens Soul Facts Sex Wonder Effects Century Screens Human Soul

Author:Declan Lynch

“Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal.”

“Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.”

Has Beens Century Tragedy Socialism Great Tragedy

Author:Robert Heilbroner

“Virtually throughout its history, and certainly in the 20th century, California has been known as the place to go for dynamism and growth. It did not become the richest, most populous, and most productive state solely because of its weather and natural resources. So it takes a lot to turn California around from growth to contraction, from people moving into the state to a net exodus from the state, from business moving into California to businesses leaving California. It takes some doing. And the Left has done it.”

“Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and adults. Far from benefiting only men, marriage confers enormous advantages on women and children as well - a fact that has been thrown into sharp relief by its breakdown over the past forty years.”

Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

“There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.”

Has Beens Lasts Economy Successful Century Example Taxes Let Me Complexes Repeats Quarters High Taxes

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives.”

Has Beens Self Able Goal Class Century Profit Motive Serving Occupation Merchants Animosity Self Serving

Author:James Cook

“The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.”

Has Beens Two Political Left Century Weak Criminals

Author:Thomas Sowell

“To those of us who have been following the climate debate for decades, the next few years will be electrifying. There is a high probability we will witness the crackup of one of the most influential scientific paradigms of the 20th century, and the implications for policy and global politics could be staggering.”

Years Has Beens Next Century Policy Climate Following Decades Debate Witness Probability 20th Century Influential Implications Paradigm Staggering

Author:Ross McKitrick

“For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life.”

Source: Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond

“The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with everything we know of the workings of the human mind, and with every sound idea formulated by mankind. If it prevailed in the whole modern world we'd still be in the Thirteenth Century; nay, we'd be back among the Egyptians of the pyramid age. Its only coherent contribution to Western thought has been theosophy-and theosophy is as idiotic as Christian Science. It has absolutely nothing to offer a civilized white man.”

“If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.”

“Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can arrive at any possible subjective position. This will abolish that pictorial and imaginative association pattern which has remained unsuperseded for centuries and which has been stamped upon our vision by great individual painters.”

Has Beens Individual Term Vision Century Position Patterns Objectives Painter Association Compelled Subjective Imaginative Abolish Pictorial

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.”

Long Has Beens Century Foxes Needles Great Success Phonograph

Author:Barry Goldwater

“A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century”

May Has Beens Lasts Air Century Moon Understood Property Wit Absurd Schemes Voyages

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“The twenty-first century will be a time of awakening, of meeting the creator within. Many beings will experience oneness with God and with all life. This will be the beginning of the golden age of the new human, of which it has been written; the time of the universal human, which has been eloquently described by those with deep insight among you.”

Firsts Humans Has Beens Age Written Century Universal Twenties Meetings Creator Insight Awakening Golden Oneness Golden Age

Book:Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.”

Humans Has Beens Earth Social Hours Century Materials Source Liberation Electricity 20th Century Proliferation Inexpensive

Author:Ross McKitrick

“That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it, extending domination to every single corner of the earth and our Homo sapiens population to more than 6 billion - until no place is untouched by despoliation.”

Humans Long Has Beens Earth Century Long Time Population Corners Arguing Billions 20th Century Domination Homo Sapiens Extending

Author:Kirkpatrick Sale

“So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands of years before us, people walked or rode horses, cows, camels or whatever. This so-called modern era, from the late 19th century through now, has been the period of the most amazing development, discovery, innovation and acceleration of change that humans have ever experienced. And it hasn't slowed down yet.”

People Years Humans Has Beens Gone Modern Century Development Periods Moon Late Discovery Horse Innovation Eras Covered Cows 19th Century Most Amazing Camels Wagons Acceleration Modern Era

Author:Edgar Mitchell

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