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We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.
He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.
The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
Note to self: Don't get on Veritas's bad side. She holds a grudge for centuries.
One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.
Mercantilism was an insidious economic theory that held Europe in its thrall in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
I always go for centuries at the end of frames because it gives the fans a chance to celebrate.
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
Ours is a country with diversified culture and centuries-old tradition, which have to be preserved at any cost.
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky
Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology.
I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.
Well, what are we waiting for? ...She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go.
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change.
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.
Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.
[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.
For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget.
Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.
We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.
Over the centuries, close-knit tribes have played an important part in the cohesion of Libyan society.
The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.
Artists like Mehmood, Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan are performers... they are born in centuries.
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.
Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date?
We live in a nation that spent centuries denying the right to vote to the poor, to women, and to people of color.
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.
What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.
There are centuries worth of conditioning telling us that the thing that gives women status or importance is beauty.
People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.
I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.
Just because it's been around for centuries, doesn't mean it's cool to be a creepy old man.
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.
The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.
