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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

Quotes by Thomas Bulfinch

Following its recognition as a state in 1832, Greece spent most of the remainder of the 19th century under the control of creditors. The pattern started with a default in 1832. In consequence, Greece's finances were put under French administration.

Quotes by Steve Hanke

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

Quotes by Stanley Smith Stevens

To me, the biggest revolution of the 20th century was the pill.

Quotes by Sonia Rykiel

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

Quotes by Sebastian Arcelus

'On the Twentieth Century' was always something I wanted to do because of Kristin Chenoweth.

Quotes by Scott Ellis

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Quotes by Russell Lynes

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

Quotes by Ralph Adams Cram

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

Quotes by Placido Domingo

I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on.

Quotes by Paul Muldoon

As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.

Quotes by Pankaj Mishra

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

Norman Mailer

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

Quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Quotes by M. H. Abrams

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

Quotes by Lynn Abbey

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.

Quotes by Ludwig Quidde

Female poets in the 17th century had these very confined, restricted lives.

Quotes by Louisa Hall

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

Quotes by Ken Follett

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Quotes by Jose Marti

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

Quotes by Jonathan Sacks

I am a child of the 21st century.

Quotes by John Shelby Spong

I met Harry Thomason when I signed on with 20th Century Fox in 1985.

Quotes by John Ritter

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

Quotes by John Polanyi

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

Quotes by John Lothrop Motley

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.

Quotes by John Glenn

For me, one of my personal inspirations was designers in the mid-20th century named Charles and Ray Eames.

Quotes by Joe Gebbia

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.

Quotes by Jim Fowler

Any team can have a bad century.

Quotes by Jack Brickhouse

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.

Quotes by Guler Sabanci

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Quotes by Greg Egan

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Quotes by Graham Greene

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

Quotes by Gore Vidal

The universities of the 21st century are going to be the smokestacks of the century.

Quotes by Gordon Gee

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Quotes by Gertrude Stein

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

Quotes by Gertrude Stein

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

Quotes by George Saintsbury

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

The United States, of course, in the late 19th century was extraordinarily corrupt.

Quotes by Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Quotes by Evan Osnos

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

Quotes by Edward Bond

Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.

Quotes by Edmund Morgan

This century is going to be a very dangerous century.

Quotes by Duncan Hunter

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

Quotes by Denzel Washington

Formed in 1967 and still performing regularly half a century later, Fairport Convention are Britain's equivalent of the Band. Unlike the latter they have maintained cordial relations.

Quotes by David Hepworth

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

Quotes by David Hare

Manhattan was the capital of the twentieth century for black writers, artists, and intellectuals as much as it was for their white counterparts.

Quotes by Darryl Pinckney

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

Quotes by Constance Baker Motley

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

Quotes by Carlos Fuentes

Polygraphs have sparked a fierce debate for at least a century.

Quotes by Bill Dedman

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

Quotes by Barbara Amiel

We need to invest in people's lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.

Quotes by Ann McLane Kuster

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

Quotes by Alex Spanos

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

Albert Camus

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