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“Fashion has been collected and exhibited for many years. People were picking up clothing of famous individuals, like Marie Antoinette's shoe or Napoleon's hat. That part of the resistance to having fashion in museums had to do with it being associated with femininity, and with the female body. Yet, as early as the 18th century, some people were recognizing that just as you collected art, you, might think about collecting fashion for museums, because it would provide insight into the way people thought about their lives and, and the way they envisioned themselves.”

People Thinking Art Individual Fashion Female Insight Femininity 18th Century Female Body

Author:Valerie Steele

“I was like, "Oh yeah, that's kind of like me. I'm always living in the past." When I was really young, I thought I was from the 18th century and I was trapped in this life, and I was so miserable and figuring how I could get back. Maybe I was just picking up on ideas of past lives, but I really did believe that I was from another era.”

Believe Kind Past Miserable Past Life 18th Century Living In The Past

Author:Diane Birch

“The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between citizens and governments sharply into political thinking, paving the way for popular democracy and constitutional republicanism.”

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

Century Western Demise 18th Century

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.”

Fall House Rooms Century Color Green Falling In Love 18th Century Hampshire New Hampshire

Author:Barbra Streisand

“One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.”

Imagination Church Wonder Century Incredibles My Favorite Humble Woods London Architecture Russia Paris Architect Provinces Favorites Things Onions 18th Century Domes

Author:Andre Leon Talley

“In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.”

People Whole Water Class Century Mass Structure Productions Revolutionary Urban Spinning Cotton Proletariat 18th Century Jenny Mass Production New Class

Author:A. N. Wilson

“18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.”

Ifs Century Particular Scientist Available Alternatives 18th Century

Author:Bill Bryson

“In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.”

Men I Can Done America Belief Voice Wonder Magic Air Century Return Flying 18th Century

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days.”

Way Believe Has Beens Turns Reading Modern Century Presses Phrases Journal Deck Usage 18th Century Modern English

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a battle against the Inquisition, a battle against religious censorship. And the victory of the Enlightenment in Europe was seen as pushing religion away from the center of power. In America, at the same time, the Enlightenment meant coming to a country where people were not going to persecute you by reason of your religion. So it meant a liberation into religion. In Europe, it was liberation out of religion.”

“The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a period of some 100 years beginning only in the 18th century, of the idea of change itself, of change over periods of time: in a word, of evolution.”

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Author:Ernst Mayr

“In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.”

Facts Force Nations Powerful Century Britain Most Powerful 18th Century

Author:David McCullough

“I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today.”

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Author:Hugo Black

“The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people.”

“My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.”

“The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim fathers and Americans were talking about things being crap in the 17th and 18th centuries. What Sir Thomas Crapper – complete coincidence – does is not invent the flushing toilet, as many, many people believe, but was a great promoter for it. He ran a business marketing other people's products and that's why his name was on them. When the American soldiers came over in the First World War, they all thought it was hilarious that it said 'crapper' on them.”

“When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us”

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Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.”

Persons Made Three Wife Century Son Bases Tables My Wife Peter Thank You Better Person 18th Century Three Sons

Author:Joseph J. Ellis

“I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.”

Thinking Stills Important Century Fantastic Composer 18th Century Handel Vivaldi

Author:Cecilia Bartoli

“Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.”

Mind Century Majors Extraordinary Touched Topics 18th Century Hamilton

Author:Ron Chernow

“We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether it’s worth it - and why electoral democracy hasn’t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?”

World Needs Should May Self Asks Names Democracy Rights Century Taxes Models Crisis Blow Obvious Versions Rational Chinese Protest Worth It Aftermath 18th Century Pathology

Author:Noah Feldman

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

Century Theory Majors Enlightenment Philosopher Spite Biblical Secular Theological 18th Century

Author:M. H. Abrams

“The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their people had come across, in the 1690s. And they were victims of famine. Over that decade, 30000-50000 people were fleeing from that disaster. In terms of per capita loss, it was of the same order of magnitude as the Irish famine (of the 19th century).”

People Order Term Loss History Century Victim Majority Decades Disaster County Famine 19th Century Magnitude Fleeing 18th Century Scots Lineage Ulster

Author:Tom Devine

“Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was the largest fleet ever seen in American waters. In fact it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century, the largest, most powerful force ever sent forth by Britain or any other nation.”

People Facts Force Nations Water Views Powerful History Century British Britain Most Powerful Covered Officers 18th Century

Author:David McCullough

“The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.”

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Author:William Rees-Mogg

“The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very peculiar political animal. It's not a democracy, but it's not a tyranny. It's not like the rest of the world, the rest of Europe. There is a parliament, laws have to be made, elections are made.”

World Made War Law Political Animal History Democracy Fate Modern Century Europe Election British Tyranny Civil War Theme Peculiar Parliament British History 18th Century Political Animals

Author:Simon Schama

“Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors.”

“My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.”

Political Father Born Century Praise Satire Tyrants Charlie Bigots 18th Century Scourge Political Freedom Charlie Hebdo

Author:Simon Schama

“Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of July not only with exploding powder and shimmering flares, but with all of our senses.”

War Kids Century Revolution Soldier Heavy Senses Fourth 20th Century July American Revolution Powder Exploding 18th Century Flare

Author:Paul Engle

“The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.”

Ifs Ends Walks Practice Journey Century Movement Walking Dues Wander Hiking Trekking Strolling Sauntering 18th Century

Book:Studies of a Biographer

Source: Studies of a Biographer

“Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad libitum and ad nauseamque of the multinomial theorem, represented the best that academic mathematics could do in the Germany of the late 18th century.”

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Author:Richard Askey

“People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.”

People Ifs Firsts Rocks Century Guitar Rock N Roll 18th Century Playing Guitar

Author:Moby

“When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.”

Writing Today Fall Century Changed Late Ancient London Arguing Faster Empires Rome Transportation Messengers Roman Empire 18th Century Ancient Times Roman Civilization

Author:Walter Russell Mead

“I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.”

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Author:Niall Ferguson

“Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place, indeed.”

World Light Night Dark Doors Century Amount Enjoyed Household Refrigerators Dark Places 18th Century

Author:Bill Bryson

“What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.”

People Home Used Gone Century 18th Century Brighton Impersonality

Author:Lynne Truss

“To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.”

People Needs Facts Stories Young Literature Novel Century Love You Couple Love Story Better Off Facts Of Life 18th Century

Author:James Buchan

“I am a person of the 18th century.”

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Author:Cecilia Bartoli

“The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.”

Thinking Feels Doe Said Book Guy Felt Novel Century 19th Century Affinity 18th Century

Author:Jonathan Coe

“Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.”

Has Beens Matter Fun Class Rich Century Privileged Maids 18th Century

Author:Antonia Fraser

“When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.”

Used Lost Century Nostalgia Severe 18th Century Homesickness Pathology Lost Time

Author:Nicole Krauss

“Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.”

Way Want Needs Today Century Information Members England Royal 18th Century

Author:Seth Lloyd

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