#centuries

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

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Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries. ↗

— Patty Duke

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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries. ↗

— Will Durant

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For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

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I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. ↗

— Simone Weil

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The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome. ↗

— Robert Welch

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Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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