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“In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.”

Men War Country Whole Earth Heaven Century Higher Hatred Boundaries Dogma Frontiers Twentieth Century Dead Man Great Country Great Hope Dead Dog

Author:Victor Hugo

“You don't have to get it right the first time.”

Firsts Action Time First Time Simile Twentieth Century Parachutes Creativity And Writing

Book:I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

Source: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

“While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and Josef Stalin's pogroms against racial minorities and political dissidents in the Soviet Union, the facts that the U.S. Army's solution to the 'Indian Problem' was the prototype for the Nazi 'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Problem' and that the North American Indian Reservation was the model for the twentieth century gulag and concentration camp, are conveniently overlooked.”

“To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this natural world and advocating the methods of reason, science, and democracy.”

World Reason Philosophy Humanity Natural Democracy Greater Atheism Century Method Humanism Humanist Twentieth Century Natural World Joyous Advocating Greater Good

Author:Corliss Lamont

Thinking Made Country Music Century Musical Giants Reverse Twentieth Century Stride Popular Music

Author:Bing Crosby

“When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?”

Ifs Men House White Mistake Century Highest Expectations Percent White House Twentieth Century Distinguished Rating Theodore

Book:How to win friends & influence people

Source: How to win friends & influence people

“The greatest leaders in fighting for an integrated America in the twentieth century were in the Democratic Party. The fact is, it was the liberal wing of the Democratic Party that ended segregation. The fact is that it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who gave hope to a nation that was in despair and could have slid into dictatorship. And the fact is, every Republican has much to learn from studying what the Democrats did right.”

“The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that twentieth-century multiplicity may become twentieth-century unity.”

May Humanity Century Conflict Essentials Unity Inherent Twentieth Century Multiplicity

Author:Lewis Mumford

“For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.”

“The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.”

Firsts Social Century Twenties Technological Twentieth Century Utopia Bankruptcy

Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may be the last opportunity to choose our own and our descendants’ destiny. Failing to choose or making the wrong choices may lead to catastrophe. But it must never be forgotten that the right choices could lead to a much better world.”

World May Lasts Humanity Choices Opportunity Destiny Failing Risk Century Forgotten Stakes Catastrophe Twentieth Century Descendants Right Choices Wrong Choices Muddle

Author:John Holdren

“And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century.”

People Men Together Understanding Grief Silence Century Speech Hatred Tragedy Blind Bounds Terror Tongue Dumb Spokes Twentieth Century Lack Of Understanding

Book:Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

Source: Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

“It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.”

Century Missions Irrational Twentieth Century

Author:Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“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

“There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation which aims at the methodical cultivation of their spiritual and their moral gifts. As long as the exemplary work of the Waldorf School Movement continues to spread its influence as it has done over the past decades, we can all look forward with hope. I am sure that Rudolf Steiner’s work for children must be considered a central contribution to the twentieth century and I feel it deserves the support of all freedom-loving thinking people.”

“In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression of the entire twentieth century, the century of Hitler and Stalin. How much would we give to prevent those horrors? Yet how little are we doing to prevent today's even larger toll and all the misery that it involves? I believe that if you read this book to the end, and look honestly and carefully at our situation, assessing both the facts and the ethical arguments, you will agree that we must act.”

“I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been guided by their sense of beauty not only in developing new theories but even in judging the validity of physical theories once they are developed. Simplicity is part of what I mean by beauty, but it is a simplicity of ideas, not simplicity of a mechanical sort that can be measured by counting equations or symbols.”

“American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ... but Zappa, he's got the best moustache in American history. Got the moustache, right, and he's got that little thing on his chin, I think it's called an imperial, that is, like, the coolest thing. That's like one of the great icons of the twentieth century.”

Thinking Littles Culture Century Mark Little Things American History Twentieth Century American Culture Charlie Icons Chins Moustache Chaplin Zappa

Author:Matt Groening

“Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that used to apply to organisms and machines. Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.”

Mind Made Self Body Used Natural Differences Century Late Machines Developing Distinction Artificial Organisms Mind And Body Twentieth Century Lively Ambiguous Cyborg

Author:Donna J. Haraway

“As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.”

Men Democracy Century Republic Tyrants Twentieth Century Athens

Book:On Democracy

Source: On Democracy

“The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation as either inevitable or just constitute the continuing antinomy of the modern era, joined together in a dialectic which has far from reached its climax in the twentieth century.”

Source: The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century, With a New Prologue

“The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.”

Century Chiefs Twentieth Century

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.”

Century News Agree Myth Complaining Propaganda Twentieth Century Objectivity

Author:Frank Miller

“Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.”

Made Important Use Language Century Contribution Twentieth Century Cartoonist Walt Important Contributions

Author:Jerome Kern

“What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.”

Written Happened Century Pages Twentieth Century

Author:James Fenton

“It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.”

World Courses Leader Influence Century World History Twentieth Century

Author:Dmitri Volkogonov

“Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.”

People Want Should Ends Government Today America Past Century Racism Victim Myth Ruins Ashamed Latin Indigenous Twentieth Century Latin America Zoos

Author:Rigoberta Menchu

“Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.”

War Fighting Millions Century Twentieth Century Idealist Just War Bismarck

Author:A. J. P. Taylor

“Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.”

Has Beens Today Young Beauty Century Students Achievement Twentieth Century Solemn Notable Students Today

Book:Tempest-tost

Source: Tempest-tost

“Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox.”

Knows Happens Century Discovery Myth Thanks Heat Paradox Twentieth Century Astronomers

Author:Freeman Dyson

“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.”

“The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century.”

Writing Done Use Form Culture Interest Century Scripts Italian Historian Twentieth Century Surveys Antiquity Revive Groundbreaking

Author:Geoffrey Nunberg

“It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.”

Long Century Achievement Significant Propaganda Twentieth Century Persuading

Book:Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty

Source: Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty

“The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.”

Firsts Century Twenties Staying Twentieth Century

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion.”

Years Problem Century Discussion Realms Acceptable Sixty Nevertheless Twentieth Century

Book:The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

Source: The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

“In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of twentieth-century typists were then taught to do the same, by hitting the spacebar twice after every period. Your typing as well as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint Victorian habit.”

“Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation”

Century Innovation Twentieth Century Collages

Author:Robert Motherwell

“In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.”

Knows Men Ends Evil Greater Century Tragedy Sake Commit Compelled Twentieth Century Preventing Avert

Author:Emil Fackenheim

“Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth century thought.”

World Ends America Science Modern Century Products Theory Ruins Modern World Twentieth Century Psychoanalysis Dinosaurs Saddest Zeppelins Landmarks Entirety

Author:Peter Medawar

“Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that embodied its limitless faith in technology, that quickly spread across the globe, flourished briefly, and then receded, once its true costs became clear and its thinking became obsolete.”

Source: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.”

Ifs Men Way Trying May Age Views Century Mines Point Of View Grass Village Witch Atoms Sheep Twentieth Century Retention

Author:Carleton S. Coon

“If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.”

Ifs Inspirational Doe Today Spirit Social Loses Church Millions Century Clubs Loyalty Rings Irrelevant Twentieth Century Forfeit

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.”

Century Argument Twentieth Century Anarchism

Author:Joseph Sobran

“There is one fault that I must find With the twentieth century. And I'll put it in a couple of words; Too adventury. What I'd like would be some nice dull monotony If anyone's gotony.”

Ifs Would Be Nice Century Couple Faults Drinking Dull Twentieth Century Monotony Some Nice

Book:Good intentions

Source: Good intentions

“Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.”

Children School Century Products Civilization Demand Various Factories Twentieth Century Manufacturing Pupils Schooled Schools And Education Specifications

Book:Public School Administration: A Statement of the Fundamental Principles Underlying the Organization and Administration of Public Education

Source: Public School Administration: A Statement of the Fundamental Principles Underlying the Organization and Administration of Public Education

“The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.”

Age Animal Five Century Hundred Stones Odd Yards Twentieth Century Grim Stone Age Rhinoceros

Author:Winston Churchill

“Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.”

May Art Seems Values Belief Ability Virtue Century Possibility Twentieth Century Coherence Uncontrollable

Author:Al Alvarez

“Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.”

Said War Given Century Acceptance Victory Degrees Asking Defeat Propositions San Francisco Twentieth Century Earthquakes

Book:Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

“The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.”

Has Beens States Century Information Blessing Empires Crucial Twentieth Century Explicit Implicit

Book:The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

Source: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

“The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.”

Looks Important Century Missing Twentieth Century Hepburn

Author:Manolo Blahnik

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