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In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia  (Centuries Quotes) It’s no wonder we know how to dress; we’ve spent centuries in closets  (Centuries Quotes) When you do try to picture the boys who do ask you out, they’re absolutely featureless, like old carvings eroded by centuries of rain and wind  (Centuries Quotes) Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year  (Centuries Quotes) The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone  (Centuries Quotes) I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past’s fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare  (Centuries Quotes) The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts  (Centuries Quotes) History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity  (Centuries Quotes) The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities  (Centuries Quotes) A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity  (Centuries Quotes) The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a demon, driving it through millions of centuries. It does not surrender so easily to weaklings like you and me  (Centuries Quotes) One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books  (Centuries Quotes) 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  (Centuries Quotes) What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth  (Centuries Quotes) My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries  (Centuries Quotes) In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries  (Centuries Quotes) At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world  (Centuries Quotes) Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear  (Centuries Quotes) 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  (Centuries Quotes) I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality  (Centuries Quotes) Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come  (Centuries Quotes) I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce  (Centuries Quotes) For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise  (Centuries Quotes) A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law  (Centuries Quotes) Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics  (Centuries Quotes) Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual  (Centuries Quotes) I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false  (Centuries Quotes) For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come  (Centuries Quotes) Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more  (Centuries Quotes) Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this  (Centuries Quotes)
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