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“It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of peace and dialogue. As the continued advances in information technology make our world a truly global village, I believe there will come a time when war and armed conflict will be considered an outdated and obsolete method of settling differences among nations and communities.”

“A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.”

Years Past Century Talent Danger Travel Findings Dull Hotel Allowing Composition Bedroom Retreat Twentieth Century

Book:Enemies of Promise

Source: Enemies of Promise

“The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.”

Spiritual Social Brain Technology Century Shock Twentieth Century Debris

Book:The Disappearance of Childhood

Source: The Disappearance of Childhood

“In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.”

Made Feelings Spiritual Century Disease Madness Critical Superiors Insanity Vehicle Sensitivity Twentieth Century Discontent

Book:Illness as metaphor

Source: Illness as metaphor

“It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.”

Thinking World Firsts Facts Certain Half Path Century Fashion Becoming Horror Response Twentieth Century Gloom Great Fashion

Author:Martin Amis

“Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.”

America Spiritual White Century Brilliant Twentieth Century Salesman Atrophy Taxonomy

Author:John Lahr

“Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.”

Stories Dream Age Sides Century Car Shapes West Golden Tails Furniture Twentieth Century Momentum Golden Age Fins West Side West Side Story American Cars

Author:John Lahr

“The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all civilizations. It will be monstrous unless it is seasoned with the salt of negri-tude, for it will be without the savor of humanity.”

Values Humanity Century Civilization Universal Unity Salt Twentieth Century Monstrous Synthesis

Book:Prose and poetry

Source: Prose and poetry

“As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.”

Years Has Beens Art Ends Together Artist Culture Wealth Technology Progress Century Communication Fifty Distinction Commerce Improving Twentieth Century Reproduction

Book:General Knowledge

Source: General Knowledge

“Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.”

Government Social Levels Century Policy Safety Recognition Expanding Twentieth Century Public Policy Compact

Author:Carl Bernstein

“It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.”

Made Natural Deals Century Goes On Fundamentals Observation Shock Mechanism Selection Twentieth Century Natural Selection

Author:Michael Behe

“At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.”

Looks Country Wanted Century Intellectual West France Britain Twentieth Century

Author:Karen Armstrong

“These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.”

Science Technology Century Terrible Twentieth Century Alchemist Sociologists

Author:Miguel de Unamuno

“Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail the most intimate aspects of personal life, while maintaining an almost prudish reserve concerning the political significance of family life.”

“The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.”

Has Beens Century Crime Committed Communism Consideration Passages Dedicated Capitalist Twentieth Century Idealist Contemptuous Stalin And Hitler

Author:Eric Hoffer

“In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.”

Opinion Century Drama Criticism Significant Tyranny Narrative Genre Etc Twentieth Century Time Poetry

Author:Juan Goytisolo

“Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The twentieth century has seen the unprecedented development and proliferation of magnificent technologies. Many of them, through design, ignorance, or misuse, are capable of destroying life as well as enhancing it. Space exploration alone holds the promise of eventual escape from a dying planet, provided we wisely manage our resources in the meantime and actually survive that long.”

“If two or three hundred years from now an earthbound civilization is dying ... and they look back at the opportunity that we have here at the close of the twentieth century to move out into space and they see that we didn't do anything with it ... I don't want history to judge us on having blown this opportunity, and I think history will judge us on this more than on any other issue.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Looks Two Moving Three Opportunity Space Issues Century Dying Judging Civilization Hundred Twentieth Century

Author:Paul Levinson

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