Quotes with century

Quotes 121 till 140 of 191.

  • Brendan Myers The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • C. Everett Koop The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 273
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • John Paul II The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Balthus The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Ellen Key The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Carlo Ratti The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Britt Daniel The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.
    Britt Daniel
    American musician (1971 - )
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  • Al Gore The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Aharon Appelfeld The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Alfred Marshall The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
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  • Norman Mailer The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • C. L. R. James The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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