Century Quotes
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The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration.
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Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.
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The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.
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It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
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For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.
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The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.
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some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.
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At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.
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We decided we'd have to do something pretty drastic to make people realise that I wasn't going to parade about in ra-ra skirts for the rest of the century. And I'm not going to parade about in black evening gowns on tour!
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She was a giant in the 20th century for women, and most significantly was a catalyst for change in the American culture. She defined the problem, and then she had the courage to do something about it.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
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The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
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THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.
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Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.
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Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
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Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.
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The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.
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Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.
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The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.
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Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.
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Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.
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We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
