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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century.
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
We need to invest in peoples lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.
Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.
String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.
This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.
Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
Ezra Pound was a pioneer of the most exciting aesthetic movement of the 20th century.
After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown.
Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.
Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.
Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.
It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century
I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.
A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics
I'll just say, you know, over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot.
The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church
I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.
Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.
We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.
I feel like I’ve known you forever. Like I’ve held you in my heart for centuries. (Talon)
Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.
Left vs. Right is an out-dated concept and an oversimplification of 21st Century politics
I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love
Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.
The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.
Chuck Berry invented rock 'n' roll. He was one of the best songwriters of the 20th century.
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.
I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.
I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.
Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.
The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem
Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.