#centuries

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. ↗

— Walter Scott

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Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent. ↗

— Pete Seeger

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India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. ↗

— Hu Shih

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The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. ↗

— Levi Strauss

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Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

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I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. ↗

— John Templeton

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If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries. ↗

— George Crumb

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Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

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