#centuries

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium. ↗

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#anybody #centuries #century #know #like

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries. ↗

— Judy Collins

#been #centuries #come #criminals #demons

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#answer #been #business #centuries #english

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

#centuries #certain #closely #decades #difficult

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world. ↗

— David Bruce

#been #believing #centuries #fact #fundamental

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#balance #balance of power #believe #centuries #century

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th. ↗

— Lance Morrow

#carried #catholic #catholic church #centuries #church

Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

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For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting. ↗

— David Antin

#centuries #circles #commonplace #like #literary