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“In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All so he could possess casual style. A style that, in logistical requirements, was comparable to fielding a nineteenth-century military brigade. But he looked good. Casual.”

Men Years Two Century Military Style Development Thousand Research Eight Oil Requirements Casual Nineteenth Century Sixteen Barrels Patents Lawsuit Research And Development Trademarks Infringement

Book:Daemon

Source: Daemon

“Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned or are doing the poisoning. She does not read these books as a romantic lonely hearts turning pages in the isolation of her room, not at all. She is instead an educated spirit with a sense of irony. She loves the gloom of these period novels, especially as kitsch, but beneath it all she finds that a part of her indentifies with all that darkness.”

“The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.”

Men Feelings Dies Powerful Grief Century Fool Ordinary Noble Encounters Exile Procedures Nineteenth Century Humiliate Genuineness

Book:The Red and the Black

Source: The Red and the Black

“Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.”

Knows Firsts Said Sometimes Film Sound Century Late Silent Musical Cinema Do You Know Obsolete Nineteenth Century Silent Films

Author:Richelle Mead

“the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.”

Real Left Sin Modern Century Elements Colour Depressing Costumes Modern Life Nineteenth Century

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

“In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.”

World Believe Challenges Moral Struggle Century Battle Slavery Gender Around The World Twentieth Century Totalitarianism Gender Equality Nineteenth Century Paramount

Book:Half the Sky

Source: Half the Sky

“I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.”

Moral Century Fields Eating Dawn Opposition Peasants Nineteenth Century

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.”

“the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)”

Century Truth Is Sick Convinced This Life Nineteenth Century

Book:The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“I like Daniel. He takes care of you." I blinked. "Oh my God. Did you really just say that? He takes care of me?" Dad flushed. "I didn't mean it like-" "Takes care of me? Did I go to sleep and wake up in the nineteenth century?" I looked down at my jeans and T-shirt. "Ack! I can't go to school like this. Where's my corset? My bonnet?" Dad sighed as Mom walked in with her empty teacup. "What did I miss?" She said. "Dad's trying to marry me off to Daniel." I looked at him. "You know, if you offer him a new truck for a dowry, he might go for it.”

“The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.”

Humor Funny Loss Modern Century Diets Typical Old Fashioned Weight Loss Nineteenth Century Dieting

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.”

“Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.”

Struggle Century Expression Baseball Rage Symbols Visible Nineteenth Century

Book:Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Mark Twain's speeches

Source: Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Mark Twain's speeches

“Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot make another God, or commit suicide, or make a man without a soul, or even make a triangle whose interior angles do not equal 180 degrees. But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods.”

Men Made Soul Today Able Lasts Religion Sound Century Prove Equal Degrees Suicide Atheist Accomplish Surface Statements Commit Angle Interiors Theologian Nineteenth Century Feats Triangles

Author:Carl Sagan

“The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.”

“Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.”

Ifs War Ends Peace President Century Intention Motive Anti War Antiwar Nineteenth Century Misled Going To War

Book:Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11

Source: Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11

“A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock.”

Men Eye Science Century Towns Shoes Bunch Beer Clock Grass Halls Bottles Abandoned Wounded Trifles Nineteenth Century Tolls Mining Old Shoes

Book:The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

“In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw, interpolated nothing, and read the record of the rocks directly.”

Science Records Saws Rocks Century Method Debate Objectives Observation Nineteenth Century Geology

Book:Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

Source: Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

“I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.”

Writing Century Late Tradition Complaining Nineteenth Century Disdain

Author:James A. Michener

“It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.' ... It is like a passing fool in a crowd of the University, a buffoon in the hall; for all the things in Paris has made, it alone has neither wits nor soul.”

Made Soul Ends Seems Century Fool Built Let Me University Crowds Wit Glad Passing Passings Made It Paris Iron Halls Engineering Nineteenth Century Rust Buffoons

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering. We have laid good foundations for industrial prosperity, now we want to assure the happiness and growth of the workers through vocational education, vocational guidance, and wisely managed employment departments. A great field for industrial experimentation and statemanship is opening up.”

“The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this country, especially in its more exact departments. Mathematics were at the last gasp, and astronomy nearly so; I mean in those members of its frame which depend upon precise measurement and systematic calculation. The chilling torpor of routine had begun to spread itself over all those branches of Science which wanted the excitement of experimental research.”

“Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study of geometry ... because they said it was so UTTERLY USELESS. There was the future of the human race almost trembling in the balance; for had not the geometry of conic sections already been worked out in large measure, and had their opinion that only sciences apparently useful ought to be pursued, the nineteenth century would have had none of those characters which distinguish it from the ancien régime.”

“In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century could say without exaggeration, "Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years." Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, "By studying the masters, not the pupils."”

Source: The queen of the sciences

“The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam. The myth was invented by Jews in nineteenth-century Europe as a reproach to Christians.”

Age Christian Belief Causes Results Rights Century Equal Europe Islam Jew Myth Golden Spain Equal Rights Nineteenth Century Reproach Golden Age

Book:Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East

Source: Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East

“[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.”

Ifs Science Attention Taken Minutes Century Expectations Affair Astronomy Chiefs Firm Labour Accurate Partnership Founders Incomplete Nineteenth Century Clerks Catalogues

Author:Augustus De Morgan

“The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific progress was so gigantic that it seems rash to predict that any of its successors can be more important in the life of any nation.”

Firsts Important Seems Science Nations Community Known Progress Influence Century Civilization Accounts Realised Nineteenth Century Successors Civilised Scientific Progress

Book:Education and National Progress

Source: Education and National Progress

“Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather.”

Lasts Speak Dark Mystery Century Theory Evolution Following Regions Marxism Nineteenth Century Discarded Dungeons Theory Of Evolution

Author:David Berlinski

“We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.”

Turns Sports Forget Century Contrast Inspirational Sports Nineteenth Century

Author:Geoffrey Blainey

“Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.”

Funny Century Witty Dialogue Nineteenth Century Up To Date

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Naples, Portugal, Brazil, various German states and smaller countries. They were the personal bankers of many of the crowned heads of Europe. They made large investments, through agents, in markets as distant as the United States, India, Cuba and Australia.”

“Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.”

Way Actors Speak Difficult Century Nineteenth Century Hardy

Book:Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries

Source: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries

“I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.”

Source: Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887

“Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.”

Sex Mankind Century Activity Disease Cures Primaries Nineteenth Century Masturbation Funny Sex

Author:Thomas Szasz

“It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.”

Self Dream Games Easy Century Golf Ministers Ritual Fever Golfers Nineteenth Century Golfing Golf Life Mortification Presbyterians Golf Game Exorcism

Author:Bruce McCall

“Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.”

Believe Century Don't Believe Missions These Days Classic Public Service Pirate Nineteenth Century

Author:John Pilger

“It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the novel nowadays cannot resemble that of the nineteenth century. In this domain all experiments are justified, and it is better to write something new clumsily than to repeat the old brilliantly. In the nineteenth century, novels dealt with the fate of a person or of a family; this was linked to life in that period. In our time the destinies of people are interwoven. Whether man recognizes it or not, his fate is much more linked to that of many other people than it used to be.”

People Men Writing Persons Seems Form Used Destiny Novel Alive Fate Century Periods Experiments Used To Be Our Time Repeats Something New Linked Justified Domain Nineteenth Century Epoch

Author:Ilya Ehrenburg

“On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character”

Whole Character Lasts Consciousness Study Century Intellect Psychological Neglect Quarters Nineteenth Century

Book:Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

Source: Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

“Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.”

Century Peculiar Ireland Twentieth Century Nineteenth Century Being Irish Ireland And The Irish

Author:John McGahern

“The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the 19th century in "On Liberty." The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual's own good.”

People Said Government Political Individual Liberty Roles Middle Century Harm Interfere Nineteenth Century Preventing Mills Prevention Role Of Government Purpose Of Government

Author:Milton Friedman

“It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less. [I]f the overriding objective is price stability, we did better with the nineteenth-century gold standard and passive central banks, with currency boards, or even with 'free banking.' The truly unique power of a central bank, after all, is the power to create money, and ultimately the power to create is the power to destroy.”

Facts Century Unique Standards Gold Objectives Tendencies Boards Stability Currency Passive Banking Inflation Nineteenth Century Central Banks Gold Standard Prominence Price Stability

Author:Paul Volcker

“Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.”

Has Beens Different Age Literature Existence Century Movement Development Civilization Western International Cooperation Different Peoples Nineteenth Century Western Civilization

Book:The Crisis of Western Education

Source: The Crisis of Western Education

“Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American men who failed. With wit and sympathy, Sandage illuminates the grey world of credit evaluation, a little studied smothering arm of capitalism. This is history as it should be, a work of art exploring the social cost of our past.”

“The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.”

Men America Century Corruption Nineteenth Century Amendment 13

Author:Thaddeus Stevens

“You have as much computing power in your iPhone as was available at the time of the Apollo missions. But what is it being used for? It’s being used to throw angry birds at pigs; it’s being used to send pictures of your cat to people halfway around the world; it’s being used to check in as the virtual mayor of a virtual nowhere while you’re riding a subway from the nineteenth century.”

People World Used Century Bird Cat Angry Available Missions Checks Around The World Riding Pigs Halfway Apollo Mayors Nineteenth Century Iphone Subway Computing Angry Birds

Author:Peter Thiel

“Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past.”

Men World Wells Able Past Pieces Century Building Genius Politician Flaws Fragile Outstanding Nineteenth Century Bismarck Metternich

Book:Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

Source: Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

“The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.”

“When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.”

Source: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it is thought that there are at least 5 trillion barrels of petroleum resources, of which 1.4 trillion is sufficiently developed and technically and economically accessible.”

World Century Industry Resources Oil Nineteenth Century Barrels Petroleum

Book:The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

Source: The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

“If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.”

Ifs Sound Term Music Century Music Is Organization Instruments Sacred Meaningful Piano Substitutes Reserved Nineteenth Century Inspirational Music

Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition

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