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“If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.”

Ifs Years May Long Stills Age Pleasure Study Century Civilization Thousand Long Time Hundred Unity Thousand Years Geology Extending

Book:The Philosophy of Josiah Royce

Source: The Philosophy of Josiah Royce

“Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders. At the opposite extreme, Islam, still the most rapidly expanding of faiths, demands little immediate knowledge from those who would convert. The convert is permitted to enter and then to learn by participation, although there are plenty of detailed regulations and abstruse theological ideas to be pursued later, and the regulations do effectively separate believers from nonbelievers.”

“The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone.”

Stills Use Artist Century Loneliness Lonely Symbols Not Sure Privacy Twentieth Century Symbolism Ransom

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.”

Thinking Men Way Years Stills Running Father Interesting One Thing Blood Century He Man Europe Years Ago Regions Creeds Veins Our Father Paganism Norwegians Odin Scandinavians Wiccan

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.”

May Stills Light America Sun Century Rising 20th Century Fading

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999

“It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.”

People Needs Stills Results Leader Millions Saws Century Movement Horror Organization Bases Likes 20th Century Distrust Doom Mislead Charisma Charismatic Mao Quacks

Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the world of science and invention to a wide degree. Also, there were no "professionals". This was a time when amateur explorers, naturalists and enthusiasts were are still making major contributions to progress.”

World Stills Moments Lasts Progress Century Degrees Majors Wide Invention Educated Contribution Nineteenth Century Explorers Naturalist

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream.”

Long Stills Two Dream Today Nations History Century Birth Excited Brilliant Urges Quests Founders Milestone

Book:Jimmy Carter

Source: Jimmy Carter

“That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils of Newton.... The phrases of last century in this Linger to play tricks- Vis viva and Vis Mortua and Vis Acceleratrix:- Those long-nebbed words that to our text books still Cling by their titles, And from them creep, as entozoa will, Into our vitals. But see! Tait writes in lucid symbols clear One small equation; And Force becomes of Energy a mere Space-variation.”

“The Soul which is approaching its' liberation, as it looks back over past lives... down the vistas of the centuries along which it has slowly been climbing,... is able to see there the way in which the bonds were made, the causes which set it in motion. It is able to see how many of those causes have worked themselves out and... how many... are still working themselves out.”

Way Looks Made Stills Soul Able Past Causes Century Karma Liberation Climbing Past Life Vistas

Author:Annie Besant

“John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. ..... The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or another galaxy. I remember the album cover and the name, but the music didn't fit into the patterns of my brain at that point. It was like someone trying to tell a monkey about spirituality or computers, you know, it just didn't compute.”

“Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.”

Source: The Shock of the New

“When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark.”

Long Stills Night Literature Stars Dark Century Cold Dust Noses Stillness Ancestor Woe Pointing Cadence Cold Night

Book:The Call of the Wild and White Fang

Source: The Call of the Wild and White Fang

“The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which it was still, just barely, possible to believe in mermaids and unicorns - these remarkable traits so characterized the British 18th century”

“The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.”

Men Mind Believe Stills Shows Earth Christian Church Prayer Attitude Failing Century Medicine Convinced Cures Enlightened Flats Christian Church

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“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

“...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.”

Mean Stills Political Social Wealth Half Virtue Democracy Century Position Habit Vices Characteristics Englishmen Half A Century Subservience

Book:Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

“We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failure or impotence was caused by that woman's action. But reporters are still prone to the same mental errors that caused these killings: seeing patterns where there are none, finding causes where there is only coincidence, ignoring our sources' political agendas and turning scanty evidence into panic.”

“After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.”

Stills Century Shadow Caves

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Though we love to think that we are civilized & developed than that of people lived centuries ago. In reality, the world is still run through the principle of 'Might is right'. Whoever - government or individual - has more power & money is dominating and, in many cases, oppressing people who are financially & politically weaker.”

People Thinking World Stills Reality Government Might Running Individual Principles Cases Century Civilized Dominating Might Is Right

Author:Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

“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

“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

“I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.”

People Feels Stills Felt Century Like You Twenties Mediums Enthusiasm Cinema 20th Century

Author:Peter Greenaway

“I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.”

People Stills Born Century Resent 19th Century

Author:Bruce Babbitt

“The constants all through the centuries will be the same; wine, women and song. Other than that, life will be very different technologically. In the year 3000 the universe will be expanding as it will forever, infinitely. We will probe outer space but never find life as evolutionized as ours. We were not created by a deity. We created the deity in OUR image. Life began on this planet when the first amoeba split. Mankind will still be seeking God, not accepting that God is a spirit; can't see it, touch it, only feel it. It's called LOVE.”

Feels Years Firsts Stills Different Spirit Song Universe Space Accepting Forever Mankind Century Planets Wine Seeking Splits Expanding Deities Outer Space Seeking God Amoeba

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms . . . movie stars to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance and savagery!”

“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.”

“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

“You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.”

Humans Stills Moving Century Painting Walking Activity Speed Take Time 20th Century Human Activity Wrapping Wrapping Up

Author:Joe Bradley

“Even into the 20th century, women were still struggling in the Western world for rights that Islam had granted women in the 7th century: equal rights to education; the right to own and inherit property; to have a voice in the decisions affecting their lives; to be active, engaged, and valued members of society at all levels.”

World Stills Voice Decision Levels Struggle Rights Century Equal Members Property Islam Western Active Granted Engaged 20th Century Equal Rights Western World

Author:Queen Noor of Jordan

“A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on the physical realm in a straightforwardly interactionist way. It was only in the middle of the last century that science finally concluded that there are no such non-physical forces. At which point a whole pile of smart philosophers (Feigl, Smart, Putnam, Davidson, Lewis) quickly pointed out that mental, biological and social phenomena must themselves be physical, in order to produce the physical effects that they do.”

Way Stills Whole Lasts Order Force Social Influence Middle Effects Century Produce Smart Philosopher Realms Mainstream Countenance Mental Power Physical Force

Author:David Papineau

“I still prefer going to the classical writers, the modernists and the nineteenth century writers. Much of what has been done since then has just been repetition. A lot of it is marvelous but the forms haven't changed.”

Has Beens Stills Done Form Century Havens Changed Marvelous Repetition Nineteenth Century

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.”

People Stills Century Style Propaganda Depressing 21st Century Very Depressing

Author:Bassem Youssef

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