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In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

You could say that Trump is the 21st century version of Pat Buchanan. Protectionist, anti-immigrant.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

The Raspberries were together two years for one century. It was a very successful failure of a group.

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

Tempura-style batters were originally brought to Japan by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century.

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.

It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.

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