The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“It was truly a transitional moment: There he was, at the cusp of the twentieth century, using the telephone to send a… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“The revolutions of the twentieth century, the liberation of the masses by production, created private life but gave nothing to fill it… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
People of each generation in the twentieth century "were three times more likely to experience depression" than people of the preceding generation. — Max Lucado 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
“Liberty Ale would become quite possibly the most important beer of the late twentieth century” — Tom Acitelli Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they… — Juan Goytisolo 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
The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
Of course, if there should be war, it wouldn't last long - not in the twentieth century; and no one wants it.… — Marie Van Vorst Copy Share Image
The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human… — James Joll Copy Share Image
“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“Because in the late twentieth century, you couldn't seriously ask other people to think that you believed in honor and truth, and… — Michael Crichton 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
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
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
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
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
What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of… — David Levering Lewis 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
“...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead.” — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the twentieth century leave little place for Rabelais.” — Roger Shattuck Copy Share Image
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with… Oh… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
“TULIP. As Kenneth Stewart has shown recently, there is no evidence of this acronym being used before the twentieth century.” — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it. — David Novak Copy Share Image
It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“If humanity survives long enough to understand what he really was, they can dig him up and put on display the grandiose… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted. — Dennis Miller 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
What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America. — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
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