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“Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.”

Lasts Names Common Century Folks Common Folk

Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

“Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.”

Made Existence Our Lives Century Ancient Folks Myth Tales Narrative Transformed Fabric

Book:Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale

Source: Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale

“The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests upon an extreme position in a continuum. The Cartesian tradition, formulated explicitly in the seventeenth century, but developed in "folk" and other versions throughout human history no doubt, holds that other animals are little more than unfeeling machines, with only humans enjoying "consciousness," however defined.”

“Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind, part of the 20th-century folk-song tradition in the sense that they are popular music which has been spread by oral tradition (for many must have sung a Gershwin song without having any idea who wrote it).”

Kind Has Beens Ideas Song Century New York Tradition Essence Folks Spread 20th Century Phenomenal Popular Music Gershwin Folk Songs Oral Tradition

Author:George Gershwin

“here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.”

Source: A Year in Van Nuys

“I like to take folks back to the turn of the century when people said 'gas cars can never replace horses because you can feed horses at your house, you get along with them, they're nice.'”

People Said Turns House Nice Century Car Horse Folks Gas

Author:Chris Paine

“When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.”

Writing Form Song Century Folks Bunch 20th Century Register Appropriation Vernacular

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I would say that folks who have looked at this issue for a long time, whether it's Elizabeth Warren or many other economists, will tell you that right now, yes, we do need a 21st century Glass-Steagall legislation.”

Needs Long Issues Century Right Now Long Time Folks Glasses Legislation 21st Century Economist

Author:Hillary Clinton