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“The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.”

People Men Humanity Language Known Saws Century Fields Development Genius Criticism Intelligent Proportion Scholar Accurate Twentieth Century Scholarship Competent

Book:Northrop Frye unbuttoned: wit and wisdom from the notebooks and diaries

Source: Northrop Frye unbuttoned: wit and wisdom from the notebooks and diaries

“It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.”

People Wells May Problem Sound My Own Practice Middle Century Bases Decades Psychological Chiefs Emptiness Surprising Colleagues Twentieth Century Clinicals Psychiatric

Book:Man's Search for Himself

Source: Man's Search for Himself

“I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world.”

World Children Fighting Sides Born Century Proud Satisfied New World Twentieth Century Never Regret

Author:Naz?m Hikmet

“In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on as a heat engine, about 40 per cent efficient. Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics a going thing, man had become something which absorbs X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons.”

Men Wells Century Regard Nuclear Physics Heat Rays Engines Efficient Cents Twentieth Century Convenient Nineteenth Century Clockwork Thermodynamics Neutrons Gamma Rays

Book:V.

Source: V.

“The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.”

Political Century Events Majors Socialism Twentieth Century

Author:Irving Kristol

“A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement Of Man), and also rate as undoubtedly one of the greatest books of the twentieth century”

Men Book Century Theory Evolution Importance Rate Twentieth Century Supplements Greatest Book

Author:Ronald Fisher

“[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.”

“Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape.”

“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.”

“It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world - respected by our friends and allies, feared by our adversaries.”

Men World Has Beens America Force Nations Roles Economy Generations Mankind Century Military Models Allies Role Models Twentieth Century Adversaries Superpower Humbling Military Force

Author:Eric Shinseki

“Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to be self-moving and to behave in unpredictable ways. And recent studies in biology seem to demonstrate that bacteria and macromolecules have elemental forms of perception, memory, choice, and self-motion.”

Source: God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology

“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

“Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast, has represented the side of consciousness or wakefulness. Through the late twentieth century, the movement of the Left limited themselves to a materialist understanding of reality- exemplified by Marxism- demanding social justice and economic equality but not the restoration of intuition and the recognition of the hidden, qualitative dimensions of being suppressed by the mental-rational consciousness, narrowly focused on the quantifiable.”

“Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.”

Book Century Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Twentieth Century

Author:Jack Vance

“It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.”

“The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church”

Church Saws Century Missions Twentieth Century Emergence

Author:Eddie Gibbs

“Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots as a race have proved disappointing. Instead of getting to boss around underlings made of steel and plastic with circuitry and blinking lights and tank treads, like Rosie the maid on The Jetsons, we humans have outfitted ourselves with robotic external organs. Our iPods dictate what we listen to next, gadgets in our cars tell us which way to go, and smartphones finish our sentences for us. We have become our own robots.”

Way Humans Made Light Next Race Taken Century Car Sentences Boss Organs Plastic Steel Robots Twentieth Century Tanks Disappointing Maids Robotics Ipods Gadgets Smartphones Rosie Which Way To Go

Author:Mary Norris

“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

“J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and dramatists alike.”

Men Should Reading Century Theater Remarkable Twentieth Century Pioneers Therapists Psychotherapy

Author:Jeffrey K. Zeig

“In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.”

Century Late Addiction Staying Sober Twentieth Century

Book:Ranting Again

Source: Ranting Again

“The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.”

“Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.”

Needs Mind Seems Universe Century Goes On Myth Allowing Hook Twentieth Century Grandeur Unexplained Mind Free

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“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.”

“Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.”

Care Energy Numbers Century Late Machines These Days Buying Pet Devices Instruction Efficient Feeding Twentieth Century

Author:Ellen Goodman

“We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.”

Mind May Opportunity Greater Century Possibility Return Bears Twentieth Century Regimentation

Author:Margaret Mead

“Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been matched by artistry, intelligence, and comparatively moderated greed. No doubt about it, if style were the one gauge, Chicago would be among the greatest of all the cities of the world.”

Ifs World Seems Would Be Cities Doubt Century Style Greed Architecture Technique Contemporary No Doubt Chicago Twentieth Century Artistry Downtown Matched All The Best Gauges

Book:Locations

Source: Locations

“At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.”

Mind Ideas Facts Feelings Found Given Common Century Periods Prejudice Twentieth Century

Book:Human Work

Source: Human Work

“One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century was that the twentieth century artist became more involved with personal expression than with celebrating exclusively the values of the society or the church. Along with this change came a broader acceptance of the belief that the artist can invent a reality that is more meaningful than the one that is literally given to the eye. I subscribe enthusiastically to this.”

“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

“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.”

Kind War Causes Century Nationalism Genocide Twentieth Century Shrouds

Book:War Talk

Source: War Talk

“The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.”

Dream Age Past Cities Century Building Fortune Architecture Tall Architect Twentieth Century Past And Present Landmarks Skyscraper Tall Buildings

Book:On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

“The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.”

Today Century Advertising Manifestation Agency Peculiar Insecure Twentieth Century Advertising Agencies American Business Business Life Brash

Book:Past imperfect

Source: Past imperfect

“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.”

“It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. ... The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.”

Way Littles Moments Problem Dream America Easy Half Century Tomorrow Live In The Moment Twentieth Century Little Time Mindless Better Tomorrow

Book:Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments

Source: Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments

“I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.”

Enough Moral Doubt Century Civilization Preserves No Doubt Historian Twentieth Century

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will need something more. He will need to overcome his disgust long enough to ponder the roots of this strange and puzzling phenomenon.”

Needs Writing Long Enough Strong Century Honest Strange Intellectual Europe Roots Overcoming Phenomenon Stomach Disgusting Twentieth Century Pondering Puzzling

Author:Mark Lilla

“The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.”

Men Humans Stories Race History Records Century Filled Deeds Human Race Great Men Sexism Volume Twentieth Century Completeness

Book:A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

Source: A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

“To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.”

“I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.”

Century Mysterious Enjoyed Toms Puzzles Twentieth Century Scholarship

Author:Paul Theroux

“The twentieth century belongs to Canada.”

Century Canada Twentieth Century

Author:Wilfrid Laurier

“exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.”

Firsts States Might Psychology Century Twenties Exile Twentieth Century

Book:An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir

Source: An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir

“I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of the second half of the twentieth century, to use my father's old term.”

Stills Use Song Father Term Half Century Music Is Bob Electric Dylan Twentieth Century Acoustics Vernacular

Author:Pete Seeger

“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.”

“Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live in an age that is very permissive, both legally and socially, on a wide range of subjects from Karl Marx to kinky sex. This has not always been the case. Things that even children freely see and read and hear today -- writings, pictures, words -- would have been banned as just plain obscene, even for adults, as recently as the middle of the twentieth century.”

Writing Children Has Beens Ideas Moments Age Today Sex Cases Middle Subjects Century Speech Adults Wide Range Contracts Freedom Of Speech Scope Twentieth Century Banned Obscene Kinky

Author:Lawrence M. Friedman

“The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.”

World Book Money Powerful Century Checks Most Powerful Twentieth Century

Author:Alec-Tweedie

“Of course, if there should be war, it wouldn't last long - not in the twentieth century; and no one wants it. There would be, perhaps, a few skirmishes on the frontiers, and then everything would be arranged diplomatically.”

Ifs Want Should Long War Would Be Lasts Courses Century Frontiers Twentieth Century

Author:Marie Van Vorst

“The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.”

Enough Energy Stars Century Planets Enormous Immense Pauses Twentieth Century Orbit

Author:J. G. Ballard

“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

“What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.”

America Century France Mary Twentieth Century Marie

Author:Frank Crowninshield

“Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.”

Humans Kind Courses Natural Existence Century Normal Inequality Twentieth Century Human Existence

Book:The Case for Goliath: How America Acts As the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century

Source: The Case for Goliath: How America Acts As the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century

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