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«We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.»
Author: Andre Maurois (Biographer, Essayist, Novelist) | About: Love, Romantic love | Keywords: gunpowder, inventions, middle ages, romantic, romantic love
«In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.»
Author: Charles Krauthammer | Keywords: ailment, ailments, cactus, extract, middle ages, Modern Age, potion, potions, shiny, snake, snake oil, technological
«Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.»
Author: Dario Fo | Keywords: communes, communing, Italy, middle-aged man, middle ages
«The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.»
Author: Vilhjalmur Stefansson (Explorer) | Keywords: arguing, dispute, middle ages
«Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich | Keywords: boob, boobs, bun, buns, come across, Dallas, for example, middle ages, monkish, or so, periodical, perpetrate, perpetrated, perpetrates, rape, related, Romans, screening, types
«Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.»
Author: Adolf Hitler (Chancellor) | Keywords: ages, generals, knighted, knights, middle ages, revolutionaries, The knight, The Knights, waged
«The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | About: America and Americans | Keywords: American flag, American people, Christendom, constitute, flag, gathered, goose, ignominious, middle ages, mob, serf, serfs, snivel, sniveling, stepper, steppers, timorous
«When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.»
Author: Lee Iacocca | Keywords: bloodletting, compare, curing, Historians, inflation, middle ages
«What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.»
Author: Sigmund Freud (Founder) | About: Progress | Keywords: ages, burned, burning, in the middle, middle ages
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