Quotes About Century

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

We're going to witness a never before phenomenon in the coming century with more souls manifesting in human form who will shun mediocrity and mind's dominance and will live life to the fullest to the hearts content, transforming our planet into a paradise!" Get ready.

What is certain is that it is sheer madness a century later, when the economy of consumption is absorbing the economy of production and the exploitation of labour power is being subsumed by the exploitation of everyday creativity.

the commissioners presciently warned that "if the American government decided to support the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, they are committing the American people to the use of force in that area, since only by force can a Jewish state in Palestine be established or maintained."82 The commission thereby accurately predicted the course of the subsequent century.

The advent of strong AI is the most important transformation this century will see. Indeed, it's comparable in importance to the advent of biology itself. It will mean that a creation of biology has finally mastered its own intelligence and discovered means to overcome its limitations. Once

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

The thought struck Dennis that a hundred years before he was even born Tinuva undoubtedly knew of the river. Again he realized just how ancient the elven race was and with it came the recognition of just how much they risked when facing battle: it wasn't just a score of years in the balance, it was a score of decades.

Far from being a mere product of evil, the destruction of textual materials was goal-oriented and carefully rationalized within struggles between competing worldviews that wracked the last century.

In the end, there are only two hard historical facts about Jesus of Nazareth upon which we can confidently rely: the first is that Jesus was a Jew who led a popular Jewish movement in Palestine at the beginning of the first century C.E.; the second is that Rome crucified him for doing so.

Given a hundred clones of Carl Sagan, we might have some hope for the next century.

The most terrible wars of history, the two major wars of the century, have nothing to do with religions.

Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the seeds were planted for a century of bloodshed.

The Qur'an was attempting to give women a legal status that most Western women would not enjoy until the nineteenth century. The

The Qur'an was attempting to give women a legal status that most Western women would not enjoy until the nineteenth century.

The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot take its poetry from the past but only from the future.

En resumen, lo que en 1848 tal vez impresionara a un lector sin compromisos como retórica revolucionaria -o, a lo sumo, como una predicción creíble- puede hoy leerse como una concisa caracterización del capitalismo de fines del siglo XX.

Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.

God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century.

I am the man of the century. No one will ever forget me.

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.

I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!