Century Quotes
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Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved. It should be neutral. It shouldn't have a meaning in itself. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface.
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Madrid will be remembered as the time when North America and Europe came together to shape the course of a new century, ... United by common purpose and shared values, the new alliance stands ready to shape a brighter, more secure future.
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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Why do I wear tennis shoes? That's two questions. Do I wear tennis shoes? The answer to that question is, "Yes." "Why?" That's a question philosophers have been pondering for centuries.
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Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
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Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
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If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade. There has been no global warming this century. None
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Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.
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I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century.
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Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
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We are working as hard as we can; we are preparing ourselves as carefully as we can; we fully intend to make our contribution to the world in the coming century.
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Any team can have a bad century.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.
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2014 was the planet’s warmest year on record. Now, one year doesn’t make a trend, but this does: 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have all fallen in the first 15 years of this century.
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The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.
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For nearly a quarter of a century three men in this country were anchors in more ways than one. At a time so many things in our country were changing, they were solid.
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This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.
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I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.
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I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century, prior to the arrival of Christianity when Paganism flourished. I can always go back there in my imagination, of course. It doesn't cost anything, and it's a form of time travel, I suppose.
