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“It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.”

People Ifs Doe Said Force Interesting Century Argument Claims Intelligent Surprise Terrorism Terrorist Surprising 21st Century Very Interesting Surprise Me Appease Spawn

Author:Meles Zenawi

“G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.”

Said Century 20th Century

Book:G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense

Source: G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense

“The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.”

Said Stills Form Interest Economy Century Slave Various Nineteenth Century Circulation

Book:The Rings of Saturn

Source: The Rings of Saturn

“It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".”

May Said Past Science Century Serious Errors Professors Historian 18th Century

Author:D. V. Ager

“Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.”

Said Ideas Law Alive Century Movement Perspective Chinese Rejected Viewers Vanishing Optics Vanishing Point

Author:David Hockney

“Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.”

Way Giving Wells Children Littles Said Facts Seems Might Advice Century Giving Up Function Prepared Critics Congress Profit Seeking New Ways Be Prepared Huxley Preconceived Notions

Book:Selected speeches

Source: Selected speeches

“Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, "What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?”

Said Courses Century Crafts Reports Subtle Foxes Diplomacy Nineteenth Century Passed Away Diplomats

Author:Ronald Reagan

“In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!”

People Ifs Men Looks Said Wanted Century Masters Clothes Servant Women Want 18th Century Swapping Masters And Servants

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.”

Source: The Formation of national States in Western Europe

“We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.”

Has Beens Said Today Challenges Century Deny Statements

Author:Charles Hartshorne

“We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.”

“Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized and said, 'I never said I was a geology major.'”

Said War America Century Majors Revolutionary Geology 18th Century Revolutionary War

Author:Conan O'Brien