Best 20th Century Proverbs
287 20th Century quotes by 251 unique authors
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Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to…
— Russell Means
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If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of…
— Alan Moore
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in…
— Viggo Mortensen
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Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them…
— Janet Napolitano
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Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think…
— Ron Paul
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For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented…
— Steven Pinker
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I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice…
— Terry Pratchett
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More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
— Dennis Prager
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There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry…
— Eric Ries
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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
— Martin Scorsese
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
— John Updike
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Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with…
— Edward Witten
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Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
— James Wolcott
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I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
— Tom Wolfe
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When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
— Loretta Young
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I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.
— Tucker Max
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Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
— Jon Krakauer
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The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance
— Lewis Thomas
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More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century.…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.
— Alan Moore
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If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a…
— Jon Krakauer
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Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and…
— Walter Mosley
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