#fifteen

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. ↗

— Walter Pater

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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. ↗

— Walter Pater

#ancient #attempt #century #certain #christianity

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beings #billion #course #culture #deny

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball. ↗

— Pete Rose

#body #both #brain #doctors #fifteen

I have like fifteen televisions in my house. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#house #i #like #televisions

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet. ↗

— Alan King

#fifteen #last #live #longer #spend

When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#average #been #bombs #fifteen #hiroshima

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#cent #corporate #fifteen #heads #hundred

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#clocks #fifteen #fifteen minutes #hour #i

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen. ↗

— James Stephens

#come #fifteen #men #sixty #women