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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
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Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
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Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The words 'theory' and 'practice' are of Greek origin; they carry our thoughts back to the ancient philosophers by whom they were… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought… — George Soros Copy Share Image
By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade,… — Erastus Wiman Copy Share Image
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
The thing is, with century breaks, maximums, ranking tournaments, these sorts of things are automatically going to be broken: it's not if… — Stephen Hendry Copy Share Image
The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image