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“This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is a book to have and to read: an important and richly detailed study of the cultural, economical and social-political context of twentieth-century design in the Netherlands.”

Important Book Political Social Waiting Study Century Design Critical Analysis Twentieth Century Unprecedented Dutch Netherlands Critical Analysis

Author:Wim Crouwel

“In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.”

People Persons States Facts Government Century Intimate Twentieth Century Facts Of Life Personal Relationships

Author:E. L. Doctorow

“Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.”

Should Mind Century Should Have Amazed Twentieth Century Posterity Amused Captivated

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English.”

World Results Fiction Novel Study Century Accounts Contemporary Prose Ambitious Compelling Vivid Twentieth Century Eloquent Timely

Author:Rebecca L. Walkowitz

“Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice.... [Sampladelia is] the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveries in particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of Einstein, Heisenbery, and Bohr, their fateful explorations of liquid time, curving space, uncertainty fields and relativity theorems, into densely configured and fully ambivalent android music tracks”

“Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off one of our books, thumbing through it and exclaiming, “Hey, listen to what this old guy had to say back in the twentieth century!”

Years Book Ideas Artist Guy Century Dust Hey Twentieth Century Old Guys

Author:William Attwood

“I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those things my character has served me well it has made me. well, an eighteenth -century man of letters, though one who happens to be female and lives in twentieth-century Berkeley.”

Thinking Men World Wells Made Character Feelings Happens Born Century Female Letters Connections Twentieth Century Instantaneous Berkeley

Author:Wendy Lesser

“We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!”

Knows Doe Christian Religion Prayer Century Dangerous Ordinary Twentieth Century Commonplace

Author:Jim Elliot

“I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.”

Years Age Century Ten Injury Twentieth Century Rugby Allergic Playing Rugby

Author:Nigel Melville

“History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.”

Two Remember Energy Space Century Development Future Flight Technological Predictions Twentieth Century Atomic Energy Space Flight Technological Development

Author:Neil Armstrong

“In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.”

Care Age Century Disease Dues Medical Improvement Decline Cents Twentieth Century Decrease Medical Care Expectancy Antibiotics Life Expectancy Infectious Diseases

Book:Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

Source: Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

“The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce. When they do, competition for what remains will trigger dramatic economic and geopolitical events; in the end, it may be impossible for even a single nation to sustain industrialism as we have know it in the twentieth century.”

Source: The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

“This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the human body. The embittered art of the twentieth century is perishing as a result of this ugly hate, for art is fruitless without love. In the East art has collapsed because it has been knocked down and trampled upon, but in the West the fall has been voluntary, a decline into a contrived and pretentious quest where the artist, instead of attempting to reveal the divine plan, tries to put himself in the place of God.”

“I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.”

Shows Lasts Deals Century Development Foxes Twentieth Century Good Day Last Day

Author:Jenna Elfman

“In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.”

Made Self Might Courses Voice Special Century Conversation Madness Regard Finals Made It Aspire Editing Drowning Twentieth Century Special Places Distillation

Author:Don DeLillo

“Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina monks, nuns. For centuries they have been teaching celibacy; and the most amazing thing is, even in the twentieth century, not a single medical expert, physiologist, has stood up and said that celibacy is impossible, that in the very nature of things, it cannot happen.”

“It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.”

Firsts Century Twenties Accepted Physics Biology Twentieth Century

Book:Dreams of Earth and Sky

Source: Dreams of Earth and Sky

“Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.”

Firsts Century Twenties Medicine Selflessness Bureaucracy Twentieth Century Confined

Author:Charles W. Pickering

“In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.”

World Eye Earth Century Clouds Grass Leafs Twentieth Century Rushing Unforgettable Rushing Around

Author:Frederick Franck

“As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this.”

“The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.”

Mind Matter Force Century Events Twentieth Century Brutes Power Of The Mind Brute Force

Author:George Gilder

“Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.”

Firsts Violence Century Twenties Dialogue Twentieth Century

Author:Dalai Lama

“A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.”

People Self Matter Success Player Century Needed Skills Chess Shy Fund Championship Twentieth Century Charisma Cultivating Knack Chess Players Epitome Promoters People Skills Sponsorship

Author:Garry Kasparov

“It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.”

War Century Lists Vietnam Twentieth Century Memorial

Author:Kim Stanley

“Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.”

Firsts Said Century Research Library Medical Twentieth Century Renaissance Researchers Labs Medical Research

Author:Peter Lewis Allen

“Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.”

Source: My Autobiography: With

“In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined.”

People War Government Numbers Four Century Regimes Twentieth Century

Author:John Shattuck

“Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?”

Years Two Ends Century Focused Meaningful Twentieth Century End Of Life Inexorable Beginning Of Life Bookends Six Degrees Of Separation

Author:Will Smith

“As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.”

Way Different Suffering Half Relationship Century Grew Grew Up My Family My Way Realms Latter Hardship Twentieth Century

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.”

“The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.”

World War Done Democracy Century Holy England War Of The Worlds Empires World War I Twentieth Century Monarchy Tourists Roman Empire Descendants

Book:Airing Dirty Laundry

Source: Airing Dirty Laundry

“In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists with similar tastes, from similar backgrounds, and of similar pretensions, Langston Hughes will be to the twentieth century what Walt Whitman was to the nineteenth.”

Country Next Middle Century Taste Backgrounds Makeup Establishment Twentieth Century Pretension Multicultural Walt

Author:Ishmael Reed

“Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.”

People Has Beens War Hands Impossible Century Becoming Obvious Bombs Could Have Been Twentieth Century Atomic Bomb

Book:the World Set Free

Source: the World Set Free

“I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.”

Writing May Ends Names Influence Century Students Originals Errors Committed Graduates Multitudes Essays Twentieth Century Exceed Analogies Graduate Students Munich

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.”

Inspirational Today Edges 1960s Frontiers Twentieth Century New Frontiers

Author:John F. Kennedy

“It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as saying that the three great developments in twentith century engineering are the airplane, the computer, and the pop-top aluminum can. Chaos and fractals are not even twentieth century ideas: chaos was first observed by Poincare and fractals were familiar to Cantor a century ago, although neither man had the computer at his disposal to show the rest of the world the beauty he was seeing.”

“The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did we suddenly find some biblical truth to which the saints for thousands of years were blind? Or were our biblical views of women gradually eroded by the modern feminist movement that has infiltrated the Church”

“I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”

Thinking Doubt Century Horror Tales Classic Twentieth Century Lovecraft

Author:Stephen King

“If you can't say something nice... about an overrated, ungrateful European nation that would have been wiped off the face of the earth twice in the twentieth century if it weren't for the United States and which has given nothing to the culture in the past two hundred years but whine and cheese, both of which are made better in California, then don't say anything at all!”

Ifs Years Has Beens Made Two States Earth Past Faces Culture Given Nations United United States Nice Century Hundred California Cheese Say Anything Twentieth Century Overrated Ungrateful

Author:Brad Stine

“No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.”

People Has Beens Results Groups Century Approach Prejudice Enormous Twentieth Century Baggage Puritan

Book:Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

Source: Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

“In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.”

“This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.”

Hate Century I Hate Guts Twentieth Century Filthy

Author:A. L. Rowse

“The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.”

May Seems Age Society Century Disease Environmental Twentieth Century Powerlessness Power Failure

Author:Russell Baker

“When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races.”

“Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'”

Way Art Century Photography Wings Photographer Disappear Brilliant Intense Butterfly Twentieth Century Here I Am Cryptic

Author:Emmet Gowin

“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revolution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which, by successive steps, eliminates old feudal and Asiatic forms in various zones. While the historical situation in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries caused the capitalist revolution to take liberal forms, in the twentieth century it must have totalitarian and bureaucratic ones.”

“Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.”

Knows Done Beautiful Courses Written Happened Century Poet Pages Musical Poetry Is Why Not Beautiful Things Twentieth Century Typography Lyric Poetry

Author:James Fenton

“Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.”

Use Society Century Twentieth Century Caffeine

Author:Greg Egan

“It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States and the western European countries) are precisely those that, in the late twentieth century, invented a new status (‘illegal’) in order to deprive some of their residents of access to equality, human rights, and democracy.I am honored to lend my name to PICUM’s campaign to end the use of the term ‘illegal’ and to challenge the whole concept of illegality as a status.”

“I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it has borrowed from the Christian ethic, but it lacks the element of moral wisdom that would give it permanence. Future historians will record that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.”

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