If the twentieth century is to be better than the nineteenth, it will be because there are among us men who walk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off… — William Attwood 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
Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ...… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script,… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
Never mind that from the 1600s until the late twentieth century the population the United States was 85% white, 12% black, and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors. — Faye Moskowitz Copy Share Image
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides… — Bing Crosby Copy Share Image
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to… — Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 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
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