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• From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic… — Ron Paul
• The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been… — James Truslow Adams
• For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at… — Gwynne Dyer
• The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy. — Noam Chomsky
• American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century. — Diane Ravitch
• But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other… — Thomas Keneally
• One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort… — Ron Franscell
• In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35%… — Paul Zane Pilzer
• An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way… — Edith Hall
• To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands… — Robert Higgs
• One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? — Leon Kass
• It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or… — John Grant

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