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“I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.”

People Able Turns Principles Century Design Theory Revolution Proud Periods Computer Worthy Significant Developing Looking Back Interfaces Footnotes

Author:Jef Raskin

“Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.”

People Looks Matter Century Listening No Matter What Tired Sermons

Book:The Doomsday Book

Source: The Doomsday Book

“It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it once, and if the new lot let us down, we can do it again!" It was that proud, menacing confidence which made the French revolution special. But it's not around in 21st-century Europe. After 1989, the people handed over liberty to the experts. Will they ever want it back?”

People Ifs Want Made Real Done Feelings Can Do Liberty Special Century Missing Revolution Proud Europe Features Experts 21st Century French Revolution

Author:Neal Ascherson

“The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.”

“During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.”

People Mind Firsts Book Country Lasts Humanity Roles Sea Century Fashion Cold Devil Europe Quarters Foe Resorts Hereditary

Book:Seven Gothic Tales

Source: Seven Gothic Tales

“I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself.”

“From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.”

Source: The Formation of national States in Western Europe

“If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.”

“According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this secret sect met at night beneath the full moon, for these were the "misfits" and "outcasts" who did not fit into mainstream society. Little has changed over the centuries and the Witchcraft community still embraces individuals frequently rejected in mainstream society. These include gays, lesbians, transgendered individuals, and other people with the courage to live their lives authentically in accord with who they are inside their hearts, minds, and spirits.”

“Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it. But marriage has weathered centuries of skirmishes and change. It has evolved from an institution that was imposed on some people and denied to others, to the loving union of companionship, commitment, and caring between equal partners that we think of today.”

People Thinking Should Government Today Century Equal Commitment Institutions Unions Caring Partners Denied Site Companionship Battlefields Collision Weathered

Book:Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry

Source: Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry

“The genius of the corporation as a business form, and the reason for its remarkable rise over the last three centuries , was - and is - its capacity to combine the capital, and thus the economic power, of unlimited numbers of people.”

People Reason Lasts Form Three Numbers Economic Century Genius Capacity Corporations Remarkable Unlimited Economic Power

Book:The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

“As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first full-blown legitimacy crisis in the wake of the early-twentieth-century merger movement, when, for the first time, many Americans realized that corporations, now turned behemoths, threatened to overwhelm their social institutions and governments.”

Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

“A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.”

People Humans Persons Made Real Half Modern Century Birth Seeking Corporations Artificial Remakes Psychopath Modern Business

Book:The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

“The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.”

People Important Reason Suffering Half Issues Middle Century Conflict Remains East Regions Lasting Middle East Palestinian Israeli Turbulence Israeli Palestinian Conflict Half A Century

Author:Xi Jinping

“There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that through the centuries has taken millions from the darkness into the light.”

People Believe Book Light Millions Darkness Taken Special Century Pages Like Me Printed Ripple Printed Books

Author:Quintin Jardine

“In Las Vegas, people seem to believe, the prosperity spawned by tourism and gaming can make them whole, financially and spiritually. Las Vegas now melds fun, work, and wealth, showing a path toward the brightest vistas of the post-industrial world. It is the first city of the twenty-first century.”

People World Firsts Believe Whole Seems Fun Wealth Cities Path Century Twenties Prosperity Posts Vegas Las Vegas Tourism Gaming Vistas Fun Work

Book:The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas

Source: The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas

“We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.”

“Some people harbor the idea or belief that all teachers should teach for free. Obviously these people have never been teachers, particularly in the twentieth century. Teaching meditation is a very expensive hobby.”

People Should Ideas Belief Teach Teacher Meditation Teaching Century Buddhism Expensive Hobbies Twentieth Century Harbors Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the last quarter of the 20th century, Britons have been understandably obsessed with the problem of having too little power in the world. In the third quarter of the 18th century, by contrast, their forebears were perplexed by the problem of having acquired too much power too quickly over too many people.”

People World Littles Has Beens Problem Lasts Too Much Century Thirds Obsessed Quarters Contrast 20th Century British History 18th Century Perplexed Britons Too Much Power

Author:Linda Colley

“People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.”

People Way Years Book Language Growing Up Growing Century Dying New York Thousand Thousand Years 20th Century Provinces Marrying Our Town

Book:Our town: a play in three acts

Source: Our town: a play in three acts

“Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.”

“Fifteen hundred years is ample time in which to lose mutual comprehension. Iceland was colonized by the Norwegians at the end of the ninth century AD. Today's Icelanders, with considerable effort, can understand people from the Scandinavian peninsula, but the Scandinavians hardly understand the Icelanders. A thousand years is the minimum time span for a language to change so much that it becomes incomprehensible.”

“I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics, and very probably at some time, Jews. I have consistently tried while President to act in relation to my fellow Americans of Catholic faith as I hope that any future President who happens to be Catholic will act towards his fellow Americans of Protestant faith. Had I followed any other course I should have felt that I was unfit to represent the American people.”

Source: Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The big stick, 1905-1909

“For more than a century, people have often thought that the conclusion to draw from Darwin's vision is that Homo sapiens, our species - and we're just animals too, we're just mammals - that there is nothing morally special about us. I myself don't think this follows at all from Darwin's vision, but it is certainly the received view in many quarters.”

People Thinking Animal Views Vision Special Century Draws Species Conclusion Quarters Homo Sapiens Mammals

Author:Daniel Dennett

“The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.”

People Knows Firsts Heart War Dies Numbers Century Security Died Decades Aids Agendas 21st Century 20th Century Rivals Hiv Hiv Aids

Author:Al Gore

“After over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance themselves.”

People Care Half Century Health Care Employers Coverage Phobia Half A Century

Author:Arnold Kling

“Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and untrained men and women the right to vote equally uninstructed and untrained people into responsible positions.”

People Men Given Nations Brain Century Position Achievement Intellectual Men And Women Vote Responsible Pondering Right To Vote Racks

Book:Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot

Source: Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot

“I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.”

People Ifs Knows Years Has Beens Sometimes Century Imitation

Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding”

People Giving Long Might Science Understanding Knowledge Century Bones Muscles Nerves Advancing

Book:Howard's End

Source: Howard's End

“Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that usually seems to be moving in a thousand directions. What they don't know is what hurts them. For all that movement in the Democratic Party is caused by the internal combustion of creative ferment, of ideas, of people vigorously committed to the proposition that change and social progress are not only to be desired; they are necessities of twentieth-century America.”

“What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.”

People Writing May Century Solutions Overcoming Wave Mathematical Infinity Devoted Symphony Systematic Enigma Doctor Zhivago Electromagnetic Waves

Author:Boris Pasternak

“All of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from figuring out how to produce more goods with fewer workers, thereby releasing labor to be more productive in other areas. It has never come about through permanent unemployment, but temporary unemployment, in the process of shifting people from one area to another.”

People Made Lasts Process Progress Century Produce Couple Areas Economics Labor Workers Permanent Productive Goods Temporary Fewer Unemployment Shifting

Author:Milton Friedman

“Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.”

People Character Century Food Remains Cooking Culinary Things Change

Author:Victor Hugo

“People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.”

People Children Has Beens Century Marrying

Book:The decline and fall of science

Source: The decline and fall of science

“As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.”

People Feels Humans Wells Enough Poor Poverty Issues Century Materials Draws Accounts Obvious Psychological Well Being Adequate Twentieth Century Deprivation Yardsticks

Book:Towards a true refuge

Source: Towards a true refuge

“Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe's oddest countries. Here, in the middle of the twentieth century, with modern technology transforming everybody's lives, you find a medieval mentality that is being dragged painfully into the eighteenth century by some forward-looking people.”

“In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.”

People Years Looks Views Century Point Of View African American Historian Closing Nineteenth Century Vantage Point

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“There's practically no religion that I know of that sees other people in a way that affirms the others' choices. But in our century we're forced to think about a pluralistic world.”

People Thinking Knows World Way Religion Choices Women Century

Author:Elaine Pagels

“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

“So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away.”

People World Years Dark White Century Singing Died Dancing Snow Snow White Singing Dancing

Book:The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels

Source: The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels

“When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.”

“My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.”

People Said Country Young Song Father Mistake Records Pieces Century Grew Paper Grew Up Sacred Notes Piano Repeats Tunes Heritage Peasants Don't Change Choir Fiddle Gospel Songs

Author:Pete Seeger

“I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can grasp and embrace, that would cause him to move away from the centuries-old idea of the individual and individualism, and move toward a different concept of what it means to be human in a collective society. Unless he has that reason, unless he has a fundamental reason to do that, it's going to be very difficult to cause him to make that shift, in my view.”

“We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue. It's a people issue, and it cuts across all our categories.”

“We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.”

People World Has Beens War Lasts Justice Practice Century Army Institutions Court Congress Oil Policemen

Author:Gore Vidal

“Education has a tremendous power on man. Can't we see to which astonishing disciple the people of Sparte have submitted ("s'est plié", Fr.) for centuries, and this with a view to very petty purposes: purely outer greatness, the military predominace of Sparte. This example proves that man can everything on themselves when they want it ("peuvent tout sur eux-mêmes quand ils le veulent", Fr.); therefore it would only be a question of making them will the good.”

People Men Want Purpose Views Century Military Example Greatness Prove Disciple Petty Astonishing

Author:African Spir

“With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.”

People Littles Political Next Found Half Century Son Disease Jew My Son Meant To Be Triggers Anti Semitism Dormant Half A Century Little Knowledge

Author:Michael Douglas

“I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.”

People Knows World Kind America Century New York Areas Catholic Who I Am Italian Impressed Urban 20th Century Decency Downtown Roman Catholic Italian American Skid Row

Author:Martin Scorsese

“Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.”

People Men Ends Sports Born Opinion Century Human Nature Hundred Fellows Bounds Envy Competitors Rivals Pillars

Author:Aristotle

“In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.”

People Men World Kind Ends Technology Century Television Industry Internet Moon Phones Medical All Kinds Cells Colour Primitive 20th Century Cell Phone Orbit Medical Technology

Author:David Gerrold

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