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«At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done - then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago»
Author: Frances Burnett
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ago, at first, centuries, first century, refuse, strange, wonders
«India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border»
«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»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
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Race
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«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.»
Author: James Joyce
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arguing, centuries, enigma, enigmas, immortality, insured, insures, insuring, professors, put in, puzzles
«But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?»
«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.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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anarchy, centuries, compare, inhibit, inhibited, inhibiting, inhibits, Laws, legalism, passions, strongest, The Anarchy, The Passions
«A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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«Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere else on earth. The plants there, without enemies they evolved without thorns or poisons. Without predators and enemies, these islands, they were paradise. The sailors, the next time they visited these islands, the only things still there would be herds of goats or pigs. .... Does this remind you of anything? Maybe the ol' Adam and Eve story? .... You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
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«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.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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ceases, centuries, custom, laws and customs, persevered, supersede, superseded, supersedes