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In the 16th and 17th centuries, as many as 60,000 people were executed in Europe as suspected witches. But it would be nice to think that centuries of advances in science and education have made people less prey to phantasms and falsehoods.
Max Boot
Education
Science
People
Made
Be Nice
Nice
Think
Would
Would-Be
Prey
Advances
Executed
Witches
Were
Falsehoods
Suspected
Centuries
Less
Europe
Many
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
Douglas Coupland
Business
People
Phone
Past
No Idea
Only
Advantage
Idea
Major
Most
Answer
Politely
How
Been
Centuries
English
Two
The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Home
Hate
Evil
National
Before
About
Simply
Due
Culmination
Came
Anti-Semitic
Discrimination
Centuries
Holocaust
Search
Jewish
All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
Umberto Eco
Good
Black
Feelings
White
Bad
Religious
Religious Wars
Facile
Arise
Shed
Caused
Passionate
Blood
Them
Centuries
Us
Good And Bad
Wars
For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our island home. Yet the government is bent on littering the hills with wind turbines and the valleys with high speed railways.
Roger Scruton
Government
Home
Wind
National
Speed
Our
Valleys
Bent
Has-Been
High
Reminder
Countryside
Hills
Identity
Island
Been
National Identity
Loved
Icon
Centuries
English
English Countryside
Railways
Two
In the 19th and 20th centuries we saw nature as something to use to our profit, but the attitude of man towards nature in the 21st century will be a bit different.
Santiago Calatrava
Attitude
Nature
Man
Will
Profit
Our
Saw
Bit
21st Century
Something
Towards
Different
Centuries
Century
Use
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
Barack Obama
East
Obviously
Issue
Middle
Middle East
Region
Centuries
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