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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find it.
In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.
I have been very clear about the necessity for doing whatever is required to move the VA into the 21st century.
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.
I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film.
movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.
I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.
[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.
Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.
In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.
Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.
A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
That which doesn’t kill us just requires a few centuries of therapy. (Caleb) Yeah, and usually a lot of Tylenol. (Nick)
The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?
The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.
that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)
A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.
The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.