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Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come. Stefan Zweig

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Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as well as an investor said to be the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett. Stephen Kinzer

Without Ataturk's vision, without his ambition and energy, without his astonishing boldness in sweeping away traditions accumulated over centuries, today's Turkey would not exist, and the world would be much poorer. Stephen Kinzer

Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emerged from Central Asia, crossed the steppes to Anatolia, established the Ottoman Empire and ruled for centuries over large swaths of Europe and Asia are the subject of countless legends, poems and books. Stephen Kinzer

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During the last two centuries, there have been many deflations throughout the world. Almost all of them have been good ones precipitated by technological innovation, rising productivity, global capital flows, and sustained economic growth. If farm mechanization cuts the price of wheat, you get a rising living standard. This is good. Steve Hanke

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Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress. Steven Levy

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The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years. Steven Pinker

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Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual. Steven Pinker

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In the earliest days, make-up and moralising were intertwined. The 'cosmetic slops and washes' of the 17th and 18th centuries aimed to smooth complexions and revive a woman's 'bloom' - but their critics were never far behind. Susie Dent

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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth. Tansy Rayner Roberts

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. Terri Windling

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The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone. Theodore Zeldin

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The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction. Theresa Rebeck

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Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. Tom Hiddleston

The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building upon the legacies and power of the Huns, Mongols had built the largest land empire in the history of the mankind. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

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The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be. Virat Kohli

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For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted. Virgil Goode

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My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. W. E. B. Du Bois

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With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound. Wassily Kandinsky

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century. Wellington Mara

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With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries. William Irwin Thompson

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Women have been kicking ass for centuries. Yancy Butler

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For many centuries, even thousands of years, patriotism worked quite well. Of course, it led to wars an so forth, but we shouldn't focus too much on the bad. Yuval Noah Harari

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