In the early 20th century the monarchy was held up as the archetypical virtuous British family. In the late 20th century it… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century,… — Donna Edwards Copy Share Image
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that,… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
The downside was that for 400 years, science has grown up, has arisen and developed as a purely materialist concept and avoided… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended toward global… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Julio's Day is a story of one man's life, but it's a great more than that as well. It's the story of… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
It's the age old thing: If you want to get elected, blame immigrants. It worked in the 20th century and it works… — Moby Copy Share Image
Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for… — Ellis Marsalis, Jr Copy Share Image
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
There's a sort of eternal, indefinable 20th century quality to 'BTAS.' We never really pegged the decade, but it's anytime in the… — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
You only had widespread literacy and books that people could afford in the middle of the 19th century. Did more people read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Derek wrote a book called Reasons and Persons, which Will considers one of the most important books written in the 20th century.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Gone is any mention of American exceptionalism. I happen to believe that twice, three times in the 20th century, the United States… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Brown v. Board of Education was arguably the most important decision of the Supreme Court in the 20th century. — Letitia James Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Muslims have been an almost entirely benevolent force in the 20th century. They did not wreak the havoc the Western powers wreaked… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Over-intellectualizing can justify practically anything. Reason has reasons that can create holocausts. In the 20th century, we have certainly seen how much… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks - We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
A great number of publications and movies on the history of the 20th century - albeit of uneven quality - are evidence… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We must not let ourselves be seen as rushing around the world looking for arguments... Nor should we let ourselves be seen… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
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