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“OMG YOU GUYS it has come to my attention that SOMEONE on the internet is saying that my fictional 19th century zombies are NOT SCIENTIFICALLY SOUND. Naturally, I am crushed. To think, IF ONLY I’d consulted with a zombologist or two before sitting down to write, I could’ve avoided ALL THIS EMBARRASSMENT.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Two Guy Sound Attention Century Internet Sitting Zombie Avoided Embarrassment Crushed 19th Century Sitting Down

Author:Cherie Priest

“I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.”

Thinking Reason Age Film Novel Century Various Mediums Artistic 20th Century 19th Century Eloquent

Author:Walter Murch

“I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.”

Feels Century Mines Music Is Yesterday Newspapers Composer 19th Century

Author:Gordon Getty

“. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if they were destroyed . . . old jobs and old ways of life could be preserved . . . At certain times in his life each man is tempted to become a Luddite, for there is always something he would like to go back to. But to be against all change-against change in the abstract-is folly.”

Ifs Men Way Life Jobs Certain Century Theory Machines England Destroyed Abstract Folly Tempted 19th Century Weaving Old Ways Old Job

Author:James A. Michener

“..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.”

“The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. All weaknesses can be overcome, bodily healing, financial independence, spiritual awakening, and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams. This is the superstructure of happiness.”

“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

“Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.”

Half History Century Ten Tradition Nine Latter 19th Century British History

Author:C.P. Snow

“In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th century, the challenge that women and girls face around the world is the moral challenge of our time.”

World Way Faces Girl Challenges Moral Century Slavery Around The World Our Time 20th Century Totalitarianism 19th Century

Author:Sheryl WuDunn

“One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern day bioterrorist could have ever dreamed of doing.”

Moments Inspiration Motivation Water Modern Century London Healthcare Founding 19th Century Public Health Modern Day

Author:Steven Johnson

“The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.”

States Nations Cities Century Empires 21st Century 20th Century 19th Century

Author:Wellington Webb

“Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating to me about marriage as a subject for fiction—a subject that fiction has taken on with gusto since the 19th century—is how unknowable other people’s relationships are. Even the marriages of your parents, your siblings, your closest friends always remain something of a mystery. Only in fiction can you pretend to know people completely.”

People Knows Parent Answers Fiction Cases Novel Taken Mystery Advice Subjects Century Offers Fascinating Closest Aspire Sibling 19th Century Closest Friends Gusto

Author:Nell Freudenberger

“This is football from the 19th century. It's very difficult to play a football match when only one team wants to play. A football match is about two teams playing. I told Big Sam, they need points. To come here the way they did, is that acceptable? Maybe it is, they need points. The only thing I could bring more was Black & Decker - a Black & Decker to destroy the West Ham wall.”

Way Want Needs Two Play Bigs Difficult Black Team Century Football Wall West League Acceptable 19th Century Ham Football Match West Ham

Author:Jose Mourinho

“In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.”

Mind Century Rivers Environmental Devoted Exploring 21st Century 20th Century 19th Century Restoring

Author:Stephen Ambrose

“The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us.”

“Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.”

Reason Sides Century My Family Lips Vegetables Ireland Both Sides Potatoes Famine 19th Century Potato Famine

Author:Art Donovan

“As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.”

Made Turns President Party Century Members Congress 19th Century Aggravation Caucus

Author:Michael Beschloss

“So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.”

Knows Ends Facts Political Results Week Century Drama Conventions 20th Century 1960s 19th Century Taxi

Author:Michael Beschloss

“Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules.”

Children Stills Today Environment Subjects Century Information Patterns Educational Establishment Schedules Scarce 19th Century Bewildered Fragmented

Book:The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

“Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.”

Book War Sex Century Position Slave Code Civil War Distinction Our Society Gross 19th Century Statutes

Author:William J. Brennan

“I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.”

People Thinking Should Writing Black White Pay Century Paid Agree Black And White 19th Century Balzac

Author:Maya Angelou

“I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.”

Wanted School Law Literature Study Century 19th Century Law School Russian Literature

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying , anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century.”

Knows Government America Suffering House Groups Century Evolution Republican Climate Climate Change Racist Immigrants Logical Bent 19th Century Culmination Homophobic

Author:Robert Reich

“The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial purity. Rudolf Virchow, pathologist and politician, began a study of national ethnic statistics in 1871, convinced that the majority of Germans would prove to be of relatively pure Nordic descent. The results of his studies proved otherwise. According to Virchow, the obvious solution was to set about Nordicizing the debased German stock.”

Results Study Century Politician Pure Prove Solutions Concern Mark Majority Obvious Convinced Germany Purity Statistics 19th Century Eugenics Descent Nordic

Book:Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness

Source: Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness

“In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'”

People Ifs Want Children Problem Would Be Economy Century Foundation Labour Free Market 19th Century Market Economy Kidnapped Child Labour

Author:Brian Eno

“World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.”

World War Country Stories Political Turns Literature Leadership Century Military Assuming British War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I 19th Century Success Stories Military Leadership

Author:Neil Sheehan

“Then when I reached college, I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.”

People Problem Century College Method I Realized Umpires 19th Century

Author:Andrew Wiles

“The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.”

Century England China 21st Century 20th Century 19th Century

Author:Warren Buffett

“In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.”

World Eye Known Century Details Familiar Mechanism Accurate Sophisticated 19th Century Outside World Anatomy Astounded

Author:Michael Behe

“U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.”

Century Taxes Concepts Agency Internals Economist Revenue 19th Century

Author:Robert Breault

“I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.”

Kind Ideas Age Wanted Interesting Quality Century Cancer Illness Defined Possessed Frightening Very Interesting 19th Century Tuberculosis

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

Century 19th Century 18th Century

Author:Niall Ferguson

“The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the - in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form.”

Problem Form Humanity Culture Space Century Information Photography Overcoming Solve Limitation 19th Century Scarcity Space Time

Author:Neil Postman

“Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.”

America Class Century Intellectual England Bills Sells Russia France Goods 20th Century Ruling 19th Century France And England

Author:Lillian Hellman

“When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.”

Hands Century Capitalism My Family Clean 19th Century

Author:Calvin Trillin

“I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.”

Book Process Black Century Black History Inventor 19th Century Overview

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.”

Knows Want Writing Ends Enough Causes Teach Cases Novel Happened Century Events Lessons Importance Novelists 19th Century

Author:Louis Begley

“Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.”

Writing Century 19th Century

Author:Gavin Bryars

“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

“I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.”

Fiction Novel Century 19th Century

Author:Ken Follett

“My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.”

Humans Century Personality Music Is Ideals 19th Century Idealistic Human Personality

Author:Gordon Getty

“The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed.”

Years Humans Ends Century Population Transformed 19th Century Industrialization Human Population Delaware Watersheds Estuaries

Author:Jim Gerlach

“Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.”

Thinking Way Want Should Mean Doe Art Teach Our Lives Century Art Is Assuming Way Of Thinking 19th Century

Author:Laurie Anderson

“France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.”

Long Art Century Long Time Eight Nine France 19th Century Derivatives

Author:Raoul Dufy

“The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.”

Has Beens States United United States Century Late 19th Century

Author:Robert M. Gates

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