In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity.… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“For much of the twentieth century, American visitors to Britain found that everything was the wrong temperature: cold, drafty rooms; warm beer… — Bee Wilson Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me… — Robert L. Devaney Copy Share Image
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I find it strange that - at least in my take on it - the people who are the most alarmed about… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was… — Peter Wolf Copy Share Image
The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century, all the major enemies of freedom were hostile to non-governmental organizations, charities, and the like. Communists required all… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
We are in the twentieth or the twenty-first century, but all the thinking, if you speak to one of those people keen… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Science strides ahead; politics stumbles around like a drunk. We saw it in the age of discovery and the age of empire,… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic'… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
We have seen things in the twentieth century like the ATM machine, the VCR, and even the car. The electric car was… — Joe Gebbia Copy Share Image
“Twentieth century women's fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors associated with the romanticizing of TB… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ...… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The problem that will doubtless interest future historians is not so much the presence, in the twentieth century, of mass political alienation,… — Lawrence Goodwyn Copy Share Image
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz Copy Share Image
The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
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