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Source: The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection

“Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely.”

Men Trying Littles Together Faces Saws Century Jokes Reflection Understood Lonely Treated Mask Cracks Twentieth Century Parody Blake Little Man

Author:Alan Moore

“In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.”

Humans Earth Human Beings Century Figures Hundred Billions Nine Chains Meat Cows Units Twentieth Century Fast Food Grease Foam Food Chain Petroleum

Book:The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.”

Black Century Victim Gray Plague Twentieth Century Black Death

Book:Island

Source: Island

“To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.”

Men Peace Century This Day Disgusting Twentieth Century

Author:Andrew Carnegie

“The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect.”

Feels Humans Truth Science Pieces Century Ignorance Depth Intellect Significant Ignorant Contribution Scope Twentieth Century Confrontation Scientific Discovery Scientific Truth Discovery In Science

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.”

Force Natural Century Bird Speed Airplane Continents Destined Twentieth Century

Author:Simon Newcomb

“There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding more slowly than in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.”

Needs Courses Economy Land Century Argument Immigration Limitation Virgins Expanding Twentieth Century Settlers

Author:John F. Kennedy

“If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth century was a century of greatness, but we face the very real prospect that the next century will see very few enduring great institutions.”

Ifs Real Faces Next Stars Rocks Century Greatness Type Models Management Institutions Endure Triumph Corporations Decline Twentieth Century Rock Star

Author:James C. Collins

“This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.”

People Ifs World Want May Said Philosophy Lasts Literature Century Understood Educational Acknowledge Minorities Quarters Twentieth Century Truism

Book:Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and well-educated. He's often the personification of culture and refinement. The twentieth-century Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks with a Yale or Harvard accent. Sometimes he is known as Professor, Doctor, Judge, and Reverend, even Right Reverend Doctor. This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a professional Negro -by that I mean his profession is being a Negro for the white man.”

“The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.”

Men Literature Natural Roles Century Anxiety Twentieth Century

Book:The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

Source: The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

“In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean dogma influenced each of them.”

Book Three Modern Century Devil Atheist Historian Dogma Twentieth Century Johnson Modern Times

Book:The Real Face of Atheism

Source: The Real Face of Atheism

“From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.”

Love Has Beens Moments Age Mother Father Force Parent Violence Century Baby Birth Concerned Stones Destroying Twentieth Century Stone Age

Book:The Politics of Experience

Source: The Politics of Experience

“The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'”

“The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it is likely that the twentieth century will be looked back at as the time when science provided the first close glimpse of the profundity of human ignorance. We have not reached solutions; we have only begun to discover how to ask questions.”

Firsts Humans Science Asks Human Beings Century Ignorance Source Achievement Solutions Accounts Ignorant Glimpse Twentieth Century Profundity Greatest Achievement

Author:Lewis Thomas

“Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin in the history of ideas, a vast structure of radically unsound design and with no posterity.”

Wells Ideas Science History Century Design Products Theory Intellectual Structure Tricks Twentieth Century Posterity Dinosaurs Zeppelins Terminal Psychoanalytic

Author:Peter Medawar

“To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment and devastation of the resources of nature, is a piece of atavistic nonsense.”

Men Order Technology Pieces Century Worship Resources Contemporary Appeals Nonsense Twentieth Century Pagan Devastation Encroachment

Book:Faith and Doubt: Studies in Traditional Jewish Thought

Source: Faith and Doubt: Studies in Traditional Jewish Thought

“Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century.”

Able Natural Cases Century Theory Evolution Myth Selection Twentieth Century Natural Selection Theory Of Evolution

Author:Michael Denton

“Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional arrangements that contributes to the probability of its government engaging in some of the more extreme varieties of outrage. Though it is a long step between being disarmed and being murdered - one does not usually lead to the other - but it is nevertheless an arresting reality that not one of the principal genocides of the 20th century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed.”

“The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life”

Ifs Mean Century Blessed Resurrection Sacraments Twentieth Century Blessed Sacrament

Author:Pope Leo XIII

“In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the”

Men Mind Littles Real Body Action Death Bits Century Dying Thousand Little Bit Absence Real Life Stealing Exhausted Mind And Body Twentieth Century

Book:The revolution of everyday life

Source: The revolution of everyday life

“No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.”

War States Use Able United United States Support Century Policy Poet Historian Quotations Conquest Twentieth Century Slaughter Great War

Author:Alice Corbin Henderson

“Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.”

Art Century Photography Folks Fascinating Dominant Twentieth Century Folk Art

Author:John Rothenstein

“How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.”

Art Whole Use Political Lying Wealth Poverty Century Economics Conservative Twentieth Century Political Freedom

Author:Aneurin Bevan

“One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.”

World Giving Has Beens Science Century Materials Prove Achievement Aim Physics Twentieth Century Unattainable Material World Physical Science

Book:The Ascent of Man

Source: The Ascent of Man

“Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.”

Political Certain Values Practice Technology Century Revolution Fit Limits Capitalism Overcoming Democratic Complexes Extensions Twentieth Century Predatory Advanced Technology

Book:The Chomsky Reader

Source: The Chomsky Reader

“This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.”

Has Beens Process Century Position Capitalism Argument Capitalist Twentieth Century Accumulation Meritocracy

Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.”

Ifs World Mind Art Important Facts Film Certain Asks Century Twentieth Century Implied

Book:The Names

Source: The Names

“The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.”

World Feels Has Beens War Country States Age America Mother Born United United States Century Civilization Civil War Twentieth Century

Book:How Writing Is Written

Source: How Writing Is Written

“Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.”

Whole Language Force Social Century Revolution Clothes Beats Twentieth Century Social Revolution

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.”

Knows Men Way War Fighting Found Force Generations Middle Century Produce Ignorance Slavery Have Faith Intolerance Twentieth Century Future Generation Good Will

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before”

Humans Century Respect Scales Human Life Massive Twentieth Century Barbarism Lack Of Respect

Author:Ron Silver

“I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.”

Way Guy Century Best Way Supposed To Be Twentieth Century

Author:Art Spiegelman

“This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.”

Age Century Mass Appeals Misfortunes Sincerity Twentieth Century Insincerity

Author:Lionel Barrymore

“The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than a serious twentieth century scientific theory has become a reality for evolutionary biologists.”

Ideas Reality Powerful Principles Century Serious Theory Astrology Twentieth Century Medieval Paradigm Biologist Scientific Theory

Book:Evolution: A Theory in Crisis

Source: Evolution: A Theory in Crisis

“Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R. Shapiro has situated the Scopes trial within a much broader context than any scholar before him. Trying Biology also demonstrates how ideologues have used differing interpretations of the Scopes trial to advance their agendas. By situating the trial within this much broader framework, the author has significantly enlarged our understanding of the conversations between religion and science in twentieth-century America.”

“THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.”

Men Left Generations Century Happenings Died Flesh Wheels Old Man Fragments Twentieth Century My Generation Stains

Author:Dambudzo Marechera

“They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.”

Children Literature Century Twentieth Century Narnia Children's Literature

Author:Douglas Gresham

“Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.”

Women Growth Century Fashion Industry Late Capitalism Sexy Significant Britain Twilight Minors Twentieth Century Underwear

Book:Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

Source: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

“The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.”

War Existence Century Blessing Illness Boredom Nothingness Twentieth Century Funny Boredom

Book:The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

Source: The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

“When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.”

Want Firsts Dies Black Happened Century Congress Remembered Presidency Black Women Twentieth Century Catalyst

Author:Shirley Chisholm

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.”

Men Problem America Lines Race Sea Century Color Racism Relation Islands Asia Twentieth Century Racism In America Lighters Black Racism

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.”

Two Stories Literature Novel Streets Special Century Twentieth Century Sweeping Russian Literature

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism-you can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand.”

Looks Jobs Moral Cases Century Capitalism Experiments Thinker Good Job Twentieth Century Describing Collectivism Better Jobs Pitfalls Articulating

Author:Paul Ryan

“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

“It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.”

Way Humans Wells Has Beens Said Spirit Humanity Names Human Beings Century Flying Pity Witness Crush Flags Nothingness Persecution Twentieth Century Atrocities Disturbance Bloodshed

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.”

Feels Artist Wonderful Century Twentieth Century

Book:Loitering with Intent

Source: Loitering with Intent

“I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.”

World Firsts Doe States United Party United States Issues Century Revolution Civilization Europe Twentieth Century

Author:Victor Hugo

“A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.”

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