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In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

~Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Topics: Afghanistan Army Back Bureaucracy Centuries Century More Reach Reality Than Two 19Th Century

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Good scores are valuable, but centuries stick in the mind. There are influential people who might not notice a good innings of 60 or 70, but they will react if you get a hundred.

~Geoffrey Boycott

Topics: Centuries Get Good Hundred Influential Innings Might Mind Notice People React Scores Stick Valuable Who Will You

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The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

~Georg Buchner

Topics: Centuries Counted Humanity Only Slow Strides

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If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

~George Crumb

Topics: Art Centuries Certain Closely Decades Difficult Elements Great History Isolate Look Music Nourish Were Which

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I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

~George Porter

Topics: Centuries Doubt Energy Had No Doubt Solar Successful Sun War Weapons Were Will Would

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For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life there and even intelligent being. However, those were simply speculations, and now we have evidence for the first part of these ideas.

~George Smoot

Topics: Around Being Centuries Could Even Evidence Extraterrestrial First However Humans Ideas Intelligent Life Many Might Now Other Part Planetary Simply Stars Systems Those Were

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The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.

~George William Russell

Topics: Blow Blown Centuries Heaven Kingdom Over Shall Wind World

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Indians are usually seen as capsulized: limited to one environment, with the illusion of stability in that environment. But Indians have been engaged all over the world for centuries, in Europe, even in Asia.

~Gerald Vizenor

Topics: Asia Been Centuries Engaged Environment Europe Even Illusion Indians Limited Over Seen Stability World

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