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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

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Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively.

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Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

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Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.
Africa Centuries Dominance European
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The economy in South Africa was racially structured for many decades, if not centuries.

Africa Centuries Decades Economy
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Centuries Day Enough Just
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

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There's no one who has been living for centuries.

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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

Access Centuries Century Claim
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Your love taught me to grieve and I have been needing, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon her arms like a sparrow for a woman to gather my pieces like shards of broken crystal

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Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

Aim Been Centuries Dissent
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A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Books Centuries Conversation Finest Good
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Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

Almost Centuries Like Other
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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Admires After Centuries Conservative
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Arguing Busy Centuries Immortality
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

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I remain hopeful that these years have been a catalytic culmination of intentional, educational and strategic efforts that offer a glimpse at centuries of quality advocacy, advancements and assistance.

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For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

For centuries The leaders Christian thought Women
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Colorism!It's a touchy subject because it is a painful subject. For centuries, color has been used to divide and degrade people.

Touchy subject Painful subject Color Degrade people
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How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself

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When our cultures gather strength to go on for centuries, it only shows the unity we can have in our diversity as a country.

Our cultures Gather strength For centuries The unity
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