“When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.” YearsSunThousandMoonTwentiesThreatSevenAccomplishedCyclesThousand YearsProphecyExhaustedReign Book:The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus Source: The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus
“Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.” WorldYearsMayPersonsSaidSocialFamilyThousandYears AgoTwentiesWelfareThousand YearsUnits Author:Arthur Compton
“Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently, continuously.” YearsFirstsHas BeensSocialThousandMessagesClothesSolutionsEvidenceYears AgoDirectTwentiesClothingsThousand YearsConveying Author:E. J. W. Barber
“We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse - or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible.” YearsFirstsHumansWellsTwoLastsCenturyMoralityThousandConversationArgumentTwentiesPhilosophicalInsightWell BeingThousand YearsDiscourse Author:Sam Harris
“Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.” YearsStillsTwoMightNationsMemoriesRaceClassHappenedThousandTenYears AgoTwentiesObligationNonsenseThousand YearsAbsurdityNo Memory Author:Wilhelm Reich
“Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would have understood, the whole earth had known it in twenty-four hours, and all nations would have believed it; whereas, though it is now almost two thousand years since, as they tell us, Christ came upon earth, not a twentieth part of the people of the earth know anything of it, and among those who do, the wiser part do not believe it.” PeopleKnowsYearsBelieveTwoWholeCharacterEarthFacesReligionJesusNationsChristHoursKnownSunFourThousandMoonNewsUnderstoodJesus ChristTwentiesSalvationThousand YearsWiser Book:The works of Thomas Paine: a hero in the American revolution Source: The works of Thomas Paine: a hero in the American revolution
“And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.” IfsThinkingYearsSometimesEventsThousandComfortableOptimismTwentiesRemoveThousand YearsTechnologicalTranscendental Author:Vernor Vinge