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What if miliseconds influence centuries?

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Milliseconds influence centuries.

Robert Cowley

There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle of Midway - but have never been able to produce an American victory.

Robert Cowley

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

Aldous Huxley Writer

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

Anne Stevenson Poet

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Benito Mussolini Former Duce

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

Bill Bryson Author

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

Boris Johnson Mayor Of London

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

Brian Greene Theoretical Physicist

Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.

Charles Duhigg Writer

Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.

Charles Henry Fowler

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