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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

~Aaron Swartz

Topics: Being Books Centuries Corporations Cultural Entire Handful Heritage Increasingly Journals Locked Locked Up Over Private Published Scientific Up World

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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

~Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Topics: Among Born Centuries Civilizations Decades Ideologies Interaction Lives Measured Measuring Men Millennium Nations People Terms Then Unit Would Years

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When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.

~Abraham Verghese

Topics: Centuries Developed Generations Genetic Idea Made Many Natural Never Over Pool Rays Sense Tan Up You

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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

~Abu Bakar Bashir

Topics: Borrow Centuries Democracy Did Ideas Islam Learn Like Muslim Need Now Others Perfectly Power Rule Shown Them Time Why World

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Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'

~Adam Davidson

Topics: About Alexander American Back Centuries Chaos Complaints Creates Cursed Dates Days Does Dry Even Hamilton Hardworking Hating Jefferson Largely Lover Money Nothing Parasite Same Stayed Street Sucks Thomas Thomas Jefferson Tradition Wall Wall Street

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For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

~Adam Hochschild

Topics: Been Better Blacks Centuries Country Explanations Haiti Hemisphere Heritage Inferiority Offering Outsiders Overpopulation Part Poorest Range Remains Slavery Supposed Two Western Why

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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

~Al Franken

Topics: Centuries Coming Constitution Evolve Founders Had New New Technologies Technologies Way Would Written

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Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Accessible Approaches Cameras Centuries Drive Even Everest Human Imagery Most Mount Mount Everest Now Physically Planet Reach Satellite Synonymous Through Video Which Within

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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Accompanied Because Been Centuries Check Claims Constant Crime Death Death Penalty Equilibrium Forces Hold Instincts Law Man Often Penalty Persists State Trying Why

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The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: African Brother Centuries He Several Younger Younger Brother

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