Quotes with centuries

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  • Bjorn Lomborg When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Simone Weil The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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