Centuries
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It's been around for
centuries.
Philosophers, dramatists, theologians have grappled with this question for centuries: what makes people go wrong?
Two months later in May, Einstein submitted a second paper, this time tackling the
centuries
old question of whether atoms actually exist.
Because to be merely civil is to meet a low bar grudgingly, and that, again, makes sense, because civility is a virtue that's meant to help us disagree, and as Hobbes told us all those
centuries
ago, disagreeable means unpleasant for a reason.
He uprooted the country’s religious foundations and broke the Church of England away from Rome, leading to
centuries
of strife.
Galileo taught it to us
centuries
ago.
Plus, it's amazing that it's survived with the same structure for more than four
centuries.
In the ninth century you could find it in the brothels of Persia, and in the thirteenth, in Spain, from where, five
centuries
later, it would cross over to America with the African slaves.
Now, remarkably enough, we've got to push even further back now, back
centuries.
And if, for example, they were nomadic pastoralists, they were pastoralists, people living in deserts or grasslands with their herds of camels, cows, goats, odds are they would have invented what's called a culture of honor filled with warrior classes, retributive violence, clan vendettas, and amazingly,
centuries
later, that would still be influencing the values with which you were raised.
They have been practiced for centuries, for generations.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, people worshipped the nation, the Aryan race, the communist state.
Reefs there have suffered through
centuries
of intense human abuse.
And after
centuries
of ratcheting human pressure, Caribbean reefs met one of three fates.
They had survived the entire history of European colonialism in the Caribbean, and for
centuries
before that.
At past rates of progress, that may take
centuries.
In their view, no other Muslim can ever be pure enough, so ordinary beliefs and practices that have existed for
centuries
are attacked as impure by teenagers from Birmingham or London who know nothing about the histories that they so joyously obliterate.
Long after he died, followers of his work were ruthlessly hunted down, banished and killed over several
centuries
by the most powerful religious institution of the medieval period.
Prostitutes, women and women who work as prostitutes still haven't gone extinct, despite
centuries
of active suppression.
Niger is 75 percent scorched desert, so this is something that is a life-or-death situation, and it has been used for
centuries.
You see, the Khmer Rouge looked to Cambodia, and they saw
centuries
of rigid inequality.
Crassus won the war, but it is not his legacy which echoes through the
centuries.
But close analysis of the genomes and coat patterns of modern cats tells us that unlike dogs, which have undergone
centuries
of selective breeding, modern cats are genetically very similar to ancient cats.
But about two
centuries
before David, the Hittites had discovered the secret of smelting and processing of iron, and, slowly, that skill spread.
A French historian said, two
centuries
later, "Seldom has so mighty an intellect submitted with such humility to the authority of Jesus Christ."
We found we could begin to look at interventions over the centuries, from the Buddha to Tony Robbins.
So familiar, in fact, that for
centuries
we’ve had a single word to describe such characters: Machiavellian.
Our culture has had a skewed and medically incorrect picture of female sexuality going back
centuries.
Ignorance about the female body goes back
centuries.
Black history has been systemically erased and altered for
centuries.
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