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“In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.”

Thinking World Difficult Century Highest Bible Praise Vices Twentieth Century Vice Versa Sellers Best Sellers

Book:The Image or What Happened to the American Dream

Source: The Image or What Happened to the American Dream

“Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked in the jungles of central Africa. Its emergence into human populations required the special assistance of humanity's greatest vices : greed, corruption, arrogance, tyranny, and callousness.”

Source: Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

“We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'. A small nose is a cork on the bottle of the opposite vices.”

Men Faces Doors Century Opposites Intelligent Vices Noble Noses Generous Thirty Bottles Prudent Courteous Cork Affable

Author:Cyrano de Bergerac

“...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.”

Humans Political Human Beings Century Notion Vices Radical Concrete

Book:Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties

Source: Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties

“...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

“Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.”

Church Teacher Century Vices Divides Looking Back Vice Versa Bishops Great Teacher

Author:N. T. Wright