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We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. — Todd Gitlin
Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades. — Jurgen Habermas
It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where… — Hanif Kureishi
From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical… — Kenneth R. Miller
I firmly believe that we who are alive and can think today-in the closing years of the 20th century-have a commitment to our species to… — Paul Levinson
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century:… — Emir Kusturica
The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how… — John Keegan
I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and… — Richard D. Zanuck
It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you… — Richard D. Zanuck
The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role… — David Blankenhorn
I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century. — Sebastian Arcelus
Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions… — Bill Viola
The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade. — Nils-Axel Morner
It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has… — Brian Sutton-Smith
The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of… — David L. Katz
In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before,… — David Starkey
No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the… — Mark Kostabi
When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million… — Walter E. Williams
Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological… — Rachel Carson
Ann Sjoerdsma has successfully blended the fascinating story of her illustrious father's scientific achievements [in wide-ranging] drug research, with an enjoyable historic account of the… — Arvid Carlsson
The same technology transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render nuclear weapons obsolete… — Ronald Reagan
To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying… — Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him. — Al Franken
I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been… — Neil Gaiman
'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to… — William Gibson

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