No one would have believed in the last years of the…

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences…

— Anonymous

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending…

— H. G. Wells

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point…

— John Henrik Clarke

“With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.…

— H.G. Wells

“With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.”

— H.G. Wells

If the world watched how you worked today, would the world rise to its feet and applaud?

— Robin Sharma

The open source nature of the Internet is both a blessing and a curse, because just as much as we can watch what's happening…

— Alicia Garza

“I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.”

— Annie Dillard

“From a long view of the history of mankind-seen from, say, ten thousand years from now-there can be little doubt that the most significant…

— Richard Feynman

To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm…

— William J. Clinton

“As such, the usual pattern of interaction between a critical juncture and existing institutional differences leading to further institutional and economic divergence played out…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another”

— Thomas Sowell

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the…

— Ida B. Wells

In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did…

— George Orwell