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“I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.”

Bigs Lasts Used Literature Boys Century Great Love Dostoyevsky

“Perfume has a long and fascinating history and the beautifully crafted bottles used to store it over the centuries demonstrate its importance. Each has mirrored the latest tastes in fashion technology, design and art.”

Long Art Used Technology Century Fashion Design Taste Importance Stores Fascinating Bottles Perfume Design And Art

Author:Judith Miller

“During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.”

“The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th century). The Indian tables give the same annual variation of the moon as the discovered by Tycho Brahe - a variation unknown to the school of Alexandria and also to the Arabs who followed the calculations of the school ... The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest and that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge.”

Giving Years School Used Stars Minutes Century Moon Tables Jew Astronomy Indian Greek Variation Vary Calculations Annuals Alexandria

Author:Jean Sylvain Bailly

“The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal of money in model fees... I have wanted to make the camera obsolete... because, in my reading about early 20th century art, I found that the most frequently used argument made in favor of abstraction was that the camera made realist painting obsolete.”

Art Made Wanted Used Reading Found Deals Effort Century Painting Cost Photography Models Argument Cameras Favors 20th Century Abstraction Discomfort Obsolete Realist Fees

Author:Philip Pearlstein

“India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century, we will get it from people like you in 21st century.”

People Humans Used Century Like You Resources India Oil 21st Century 20th Century Human Resources Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis

Author:Rahul Gandhi

“When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs. By force, brutal force, he eliminated all the other scripts. One script became the official script. All the others were banned. And those who used other scripts were punished severely. And then the meanings of all the characters, over the centuries, had to be kept uniform as a part of the political apparatus. So from the very beginning the written word was a powerful political tool.”

Firsts Country Character Wanted Political Used Force Powerful Written Century Policy Majors Tools Scripts Officials Brutal Uniforms Emperor Banned Written Word

Author:Ha Jin

“In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years - starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century.”

“Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long periods forgot - about the 'Safeguard of the Sea', as the 15th century phrase had it, meaning the use of the sea for national defence, and the defence of those who used the sea.”

Long Use Used Process Sea Subjects Century Periods British Phrases Defence Isle Erratic

Author:Nicholas Rodger

“In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away, the Basques chased them further and further, with the consequence that the fishermen of Biarritz discovered America before Columbus did. This is a matter for local pride but on a larger view it is not quite so stunning, since with the possible exception of the Swiss everybody discovered America before Columbus did.”

Matter America Used Views History Century Humour Pride Consequence Moved Locals Exception Efficiency Hunts Whales Fisherman Stunning Columbus Swiss Basques

Book:Flying Visits

Source: Flying Visits

“For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.”

Has Beens States Reality Used Wish Natural Century Prejudice Affair Users

Author:Eva Figes

“The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.”

World Used Century Development Concepts Quantum Mechanic Physicist Obliged Twentieth Century Quantum Mechanics

Author:Alain Aspect

“The phrase the violent bear it away fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced Connor), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and husband of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews.”

Source: How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe

“For centuries, dreams have been used to communicate instruction and direction to people of purpose - great men and women. God used dreams to prepare Joseph for his future as a leader of nations. He gave battle plans to Gideon in a dream. Joan of Arc, Jacob, George Washington, Marie Curie, and the apostle Paul were all guided by their dreams.”

Source: Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions

“The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material to present each of his protagonists in a convincing, respectful, but unsparing way. Even more valuable, he has used the interactions and tensions between Paul Nitze and George Kennan to bring much of American 20th century foreign policy to life, with human richness ever present but with the big issues clear in all their complexity.”

“When we used to play, we thought no one can break Sunil Gavaskar's record. No one could think about 50 Test centuries at that time. This is certainly a big knock under the circumstances, better than the 200s and 300s.”

Thinking Play Bigs Used Break Records Century Circumstances Tests Cricket

Author:Kapil Dev

“Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.”

Used Artist Century Photography Invention Frightened Nineteenth Century

Book:The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

“Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. Degas liked it not only because it provided an accurate record, but because the snapshot showed him a means of escape from the classical rules of design. Through it he learnt to make a composition without the use of formal symmetry.”

Mean Use Used Artist Records Century Design Photography Invention Frightened Accurate Composition Formal Nineteenth Century Symmetry Snapshots Degas

Book:The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

“It should come as no surprise that writers take an interest in punctuation. I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, "I should have used fewer semicolons" - and although I have spent months fruitlessly trying to track down the chap responsible, I believe it none the less. If it turns out that no one actually did say this on their deathbed, I shall certainly save it up for my own.”

Ifs Should Trying Believe Has Beens Used Turns I Believe Interest My Own Century Dying Months Should Have Responsible Surprise Track Fewer 20th Century Deathbed Punctuation Chaps

Author:Lynne Truss

“We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.”

Men May Facts Able Faces Used Courses Lost Loss Attention Century Demand Intellectual Capacity Machines Innocence Denial Capability Nineteenth Century

Book:Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Source: Notes on the Synthesis of Form

“Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.”

Way Writing Years Made Hands Jobs Used Given Five Week Century Television Tvs Six Hollywood Scripts Studios Used To Be My Time Contracts Staff 21st Century Back When Great Job Movie Business

Author:Vince Gilligan

“The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts; they were the story tellers, and the stories were allegorically written truths: where we came from, how we migrated over this river, got with this tribe, became this nation, and tamed the mountains. It changed from that to being purely entertainment. And once it became purely entertainment, it lost something.”

Facts Stories Age Used Lost Nations Roles Written Century Changed Poet Mountain Rivers Entertainment Used To Be Tribes Keepers Tamed Where We Came

Author:Malik Yusef

“Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of its clandestine services, to overthrow governments that refused to protect American interests. Each time, it cloaked its intervention in the rhetoric of national security and liberation. In most cases, however, it acted mainly for economic reasons-specifically to establish, promote and defend the right of Americans to do business around the world without interference.”

Source: Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

“Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.”

People Hands Age Used Hate Evil Force Sex Psychology Century Limits Release Tyrants Mechanism Forbidden Breeding Scapegoat Sadism Cathartic

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business, it has no simple way to uncover how its product encoded data. The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible. Knowledge has been destroyed.”

Way Has Beens Stills Used Certain Lost Simple Company Creative Century Produce Products Program Destroyed Data Code Software Creative Work Inaccessible Simple Ways

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to something demonstrably less legible than something else would be if we could get used to it, we should make no effort to scrap the existing thing. This was done by the Florentines and Romans of the fifteenth century; it requires simply good sense in the originators & good will in the rest of us.”

Ifs Should Done Would Be Used Effort Practice Century Amount Accustomed Good Will Good Sense Scrap Legibility

Author:Eric Gill

“Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.”

Used Song Language Teach Century News Ethics Conscience Mathematics Traveled

Author:T Bone Burnett

“In the first centuries of Christianity the hungry were fed at a personal sacrifice, the naked were clothed at a personal sacrifice, the homeless were sheltered at a personal sacrifice... And the pagans used to say about the Christians, "See how they love each other." In our own day the poor are no longer fed, clothed, and sheltered at a personal sacrifice, but at the expense of the taxpayers. And because of this the pagans say about the Christians, "See how they pass the buck."”

Firsts Christian Used Poor Christianity Sacrifice Century Hungry Naked Feds Expenses Homeless Taxpayers Bucks Pagan Love Each Other Personal Sacrifice

Author:Peter Maurin

“I wandered around in a confused daze for most of the '90s unable to even remember why I wanted to be a filmmaker and somehow I found myself at the turn of the century. I used lost film as an excuse to express myself.”

Wanted Remember Film Used Turns Found Lost Century Excuse Filmmaker Confused Daze

Author:Guy Maddin

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