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“You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?”

“The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.”

Source: Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry

“In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.”

“Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!”

Problem Century Concepts Evidence

Book:The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference

Source: The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference

“We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all Christian influences and we are succeeding. While we today seem to be kind to the Christian, remember we have yet to influence the 'Christian world' to our ends... You must work until 'religion' is synonymous with 'insanity'... It is only necessary to work incessantly upon the official, using personal defamations, wild lies, false evidences and constant propaganda to make him fight for you against the church or against any practitioner.”

Source: THE SOVIET ART OF BRAINWASHING: A synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics

“The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.”

Humans Littles Religion Causes Support Century Conflict Evidence Corners Globes Twentieth Century Contention

Author:Michael Medved

“There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.”

“Across all Cinderella versions it was clear that the 21st century was not very much in evidence, particularly in the character of Cinderella so it seemed, it felt actually as though it hadn't been done for quite some time, not with the kind of lushness that we could do it with, with an absolute removal of the passivity of Cinderella and finding an amusing way, a lighthearted but significant way of making her proactive and not a girl who's life is about waiting for a bloke.”

Way Kind Done Character Life Is Girl Felt Waiting Clear Century Findings Evidence Absolutes Significant Versions 21st Century Amusing Removal Proactive Passivity Blokes

Author:Kenneth Branagh

Source: Einstein: His Life and Universe

“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.”

“Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.”

Years Two War Country Reason Century Evidence

Author:Ward Churchill

“When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.”

Thinking World Years Past Humanity Century Evidence Obvious Developing Pessimism Fashionable Over The Past Pessimistic Expectancy Life Expectancy Thinking About The Future

Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It has worked for us and the clearest evidence that our democracy has worked is that there is a revolution that has continued after a half century of facing down the most powerful empire. This has not happened many times in history.”

Should Powerful Half Democracy Happened Century Revolution Evidence Experiments Empires Most Powerful Cuba Democracies Have

Author:Alejandro Castro Espin

“The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.”

Looks Left Century Painting Evidence Painter Crafts

Author:Balthus

“Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'”

People Knows Mind Different Technology Century Example Evidence Areas Medicine Edges Genuine Britain 21st Century Open Mind New Technology Modification Keep An Open Mind Scientific Evidence

Author:Tony Blair

“Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.”

Men Way Century Evidence Behave Contradiction Flats Grown Man

Book:So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by the common man in centuries, he had all about him the ruin of language, evidence of toppled suburbs, grass growing among the mosaics, and voices that had been choked with poison, iron, age, or ash.”

Men Age Reading Language Voice Common Growing Century Evidence Dues Profession Ruins Grass Fallen Poison Empires Iron Ashes Gloom Suburbs Common Man Mosaics Grass Growing

Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson

“As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.”

Jesus Christ Effects Century Planets Evidence Jesus Christ Influential

Author:Kenneth Scott Latourette

“If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have seen a convergence of the arrows of explanation, like the convergence of meridians toward the North Pole.”

Ifs Seems Science History Century Theory Evidence Finals Guides Explanation Arrows Convergence North Pole

Author:Steven Weinberg

“One area of the Book of Mormon that does bother some is what they see as anachronistic doctrine; that the Book of Mormon has Christian doctrine prior to the coming of Christ; that it has seemingly New Testament doctrines appearing centuries before Jesus arrives, and it seems to be representing a form of Christianity existing in the New World where there doesn't seem to be much evidence of that archaeologically. Christianity is invisible in the New World prior to the coming of Columbus, and so those things seem like clear anachronisms to people looking at it in that way.”

“There is no strong evidence to prove significant human influence on climate on a global basis. The global cooling trend from 1940 to 1970 is inconsistent with models based on anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. There is no reliable evidence to support that the 20th century was the warmest in the last 1000 years.”

“In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.”

Century Couple Evidence Worldview

Author:Bill Nye

“When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.”

Source: The Character of Jesus

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