Century Quotes
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I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.
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It is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.
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Art can have connections over many centuries or thousands of years.
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The unsolved problems of the physical world now seem even more formidable than those solved in the twentieth century.
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I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.
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We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
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The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.
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The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.
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In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.
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I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.
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Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
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Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
