Sentences with phrase «centuries people say»

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«People have given up on them,» says Phil Davidson, portfolio manager at the $ 13 billion, value - focused American Century Equity Income Fund.
It's not as hard as people make it out to be — it's like being an auto mechanic of the 21st century,» he said.
«We are going through the biggest wealth generation opportunity of the century, and people want to participate,» says Meltem Demirors, director of development at Digital Currency Group.
Piazza del Popolo It's said to be one of the best people - watching spots in the city (which, for Rome, says a lot)-- that is, if you can take your eyes off the 17th - century churches and Egyptian obelisk, among other sights.
«In the 19th and early 20th centuries, millions of people came and they went to the Prairies and we fed them,» she says.
Today, the people of Ohio remember a devoted public servant who represented his fellow Buckeyes in the U.S. Senate for a quarter century and who fought to keep America a leader in science and technology,» the president said.
«Affordable housing has been quite a serious problem for us,» says Philip Souza, owner of Century 21 Smith / Ring Inc. «The people who don't earn as much have a difficult time remaining close to work.»
The saying apparently dates back to the Han Dynasty, but Chen attributed it to the person who popularized it in the 20th century: Mao Zedong.
«What we are kind of obsessed with is how you get people recognition and value for who they are and for their accomplishments or skills or their commitments and we think a badge is a really elegant and effective and kind of 21st century way of doing that,» Thorne says.
He says that artificial intelligence combined with data gathered by billions of sensors will bring on an «information revolution,» that will benefit people more than the 19th century Industrial Revolution.
With 25 years of experience, the Publicis Media chairman says people, empowerment and trust are essential This year marks a milestone in what has been an exciting and fulfilling career for me: a quarter of a century as an industry veteran.
Demographic trends have shifted dramatically in the U.S. over the past half century toward an older population, and hence potential growth has to be structurally lower today, even as we hire great numbers of people (to say nothing of deploying ever greater numbers of robots).
«Mr. Harper doesn't understand that in order to grow the economy in the 21st century we need to invest in people and give them the tools they need to succeed,» he said.
It's only in the last century that people have tried to make the Bible fit their beliefs rather then align their life with what the bible says, and look at the results, the world is in turmoil and on a downward spiral out of control and this article is a good example of trying to make God's word an excuse to do every wrong thing there is real good reporting.
God described how earth got here, but how people interpreted what he said over the centuries was wrong, because they didn't have all the information needed to confirm what he said.
Rohr, who has also written «Quest for the Grail,» a book on mythology, says people have learned these hard lessons for centuries through myth.
Everything has its ups and downs, and since the sixteenth century there are indeed many people who have been «resistant» to the Christian construal of marriage, but it hardly seems true to say that Protestant and Catholic teaching have «had little effect on social reality.»
Jesus brought us all the rules of the Mormon church, but people killed Him and the rules Jesus taught were lost for 19 centuries until Joseph Smith, Gods new appointed savior, could find the golden plates (that nobody ever saw and all 6 people who claimed to see them later recanted and said they were lying).
Having had the pleasure of knowing Hannah Arendt, albeit much too slightly, and moreover of having known more closely Heinrich Bluecher when I was his assistant in the World Civilizations program at Bard College in 1958 «1959, I can say there are few people who, in their writings and their persons, could face with such clear determination the heights and the depths of European civilization in the last century.
The people were forced to hear the stupid stories for so many centuries, and anybody who spoke up and said «that's ridiculous» got their head hacked off, that finally the people didn't know any better, and thought they were real.
If you people really want to know if God exists just look into our planet and look at yourselves and if you do not say the same thing King David said centuries ago» In a fear inspiring way I am wonderfully made» then something is really wrong.
BillyD said: «Without arbitrarily labeling as mass mental illness, how do explain the personally experiential, spiritual revelations of countless people throughout the centuries, many by people previously not convinced by the faith of others?»
Churches have said for centuries that gay people are evil.
Many had said that communism lacked popular support; few realized what pent - up resentment would boil forth once people were free to speak about the tyranny of the past half - century and more.
Salvador of Marcilles, a fourth century church father, said that when we say that Jesus had compassion on the people it means that all the individual suffering of many people is gathered in Christ and Christ bears all the suffering at the same time.
«This filthy enactment,» he said, «was made in the nineteenth century, by people who could read and write.
The King of the Two Sicilies put the matter concretely when he said to the King of Piedmont (this was in the nineteenth century): «It is plain that the people of Turin have many more things than the people of Palermo....
Today, as in the 18th century, people of great passion seek to discredit those who insist on saying: Slow down; let's think about this.
When Christian leaders blame LGBT people for natural disasters or warn they are going to «come after» Christians, it's hard not to be reminded of what was often said about Jews in Europe to justify centuries of prejudice against them.
«However, I must say that one should not forget the fascist and atheist leaders of the 20th century whose leadership and governments led to the massacre of millions of people in their lifetime alone.»
@ iconoclast: you said:» «God» is simply a crutch that people have used over the centuries to explain the unknown, to quell fears and to provide psychological relief.»
I find it sad that people are being taught to «respect» someone else's religion when perhaps instead, we should be saying, «Hey this is some worthless drivel from centuries ago when Earth was flat and sickness was caused by witchcraft»
Yet we can say with the Theologica Germanica what a person's right arm is to that person, Jesus was to God, as «the strong Son of God» whom for twenty centuries humankind has declared him to have been.
Almost a century ago GK Chesterton wrote these words: «We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which furious party cries will be raised against anybody who says that cows have horns, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three - sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.»
It might be said that the history of the past half - century is the story of human attempts to secure world - community, the triumph of righteousness and justice, the establishment of understanding among the peoples of the earth, but always through the exercise of some variety of coercion.
Many people today still live in a first - century culture,» he said.
We have said something about the place of the Bible in the living Christian tradition which preachers represent and for which they function; we have discussed a few of the problems or questions which are raised both for preachers and for people; and we have tried to sum up the theological and moral implications of the gospel as these have been worked out in the tradition down the centuries.
Beginning with its origins in the forest primeval — so dense, people said, that a squirrel could run the length of Pennsylvania without ever touching ground — she leads us through its evolution: frontier fortification of the 18th century, industrial giant of Carnegie, Frick and Mellon, and «clean city» of the 1950s, dominated from the beginning by Scotch - Irish and Germans, political conservatives, and staunch Presbyterians, all driven by that «powerful Calvinist mix of piety and acquisitiveness.».
«Like here in the 21st century, generally if somebody says some stuff you don't like, you just say you think they're wrong, and people stop going to their church and they become less popular, and then they have to go off into the sunset,» Glass says.
More critical still is to recognize that what God hated is not specifically Esau, for Malachi 1:3 was written many centuries after he had died, nor was God saying He hates the people of Edom.
John F. Kasson says in Rudeness and Civility: Manners in 19th Century Urban America that «most etiquette manuals were sold to people who would never have thought of entering a bookstore,» mainly by direct mail.
It was a triumph, said the Century, that the allies had brought on themselves — by refusing to take «the road of conciliation» and by making of the Versailles Treaty «nothing but a victors» vengeance, a «brutal betrayal» of the German people's confidence.
For centuries people believed that Aristotle was right when he said that the heavier an object, the faster it would fall to earth.
We have almost no concept of the culture and day - to - day lives of those ancient people, so how could we take what they said and apply it to the 21st century?
As Attack said people like Shakespeare, Darwin, Da Vinci, Mozart are remembered centuries after their death.
It was a standing principle of Rabbinic exegesis of the Old Testament that what the prophets predicted had reference to the «days of the Messiah,» that is to say, to the expected time when God, after long centuries of waiting, should visit His people with judgment and blessing, bringing to a climax His dealings with them in history.
He said while people call Jesus or Mother Teresa heroes, they should use the same description for people like 19th century oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller and inventor and businessman, Thomas Edison.
That fourth - century formulation actually may make some people ill,» Sims said to laughter.
Most people think Utopia is a description of a society idealized by Moore but most literary scholars say that historical evidence indicates it was a satirical critique of 16th century England.
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