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brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN In the late nineteenth century women lodgers, alone in the city, epitomized the purity of endangered...
JEANNE MEYEROWITZ
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of ... ERIC HOFFER
It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mor... MALCOLM GLADWELL Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they wer...
LILLIAN HELLMAN
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. GERTRUDE STEIN
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. JILL LEPORE
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is ... ERICH FROMM The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily ...
WILLIAM E. BORAH The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily l...
WILLIAM H. BORAH
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twen... EDWARD BELLAMY
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by d... ERIC HOFFER
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by de... ERIC HOFFER As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democ...
ROBERT A. DAHL A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of...
BALTASAR GRACIáN
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their p... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE Wimbledon has failed to do the right thing and continues to promote inequality in pay across the boa...
LARRY SCOTT In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF In the seventh century the Arabs created a new world into which other peoples were drawn. In the nin...
ALBERT HOURANI
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with... KAREN ARMSTRONG Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in...
THOMAS S. SZASZ Feast of Mark the Evangelist There are, of course, interesting questions that can be asked about t...
E. L. MASCALL Somewhere in the twentieth century we stopped regarding children as property and started seeing them...
KATE ADIE
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sourc... EAVAN BOLAND
The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a ninetee... W. E. B. DU BOIS I will deal with them according to their conduct, and by their own standards I will judge them
BIBLE In 2006, death is not a part of everyday life here. In the 19th century, people died at home, their ...
KATHY SHEEHAN
'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. '... WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN
Creators of literary fairy tales from the 17th-century onward include writers whose works are still ... TERRI WINDLING
If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjo... FATEMA MERNISSI Denver is one of the best teams, both men and women. They definitely have a legitimate shot at winni...
BRUCE MARCHIONDA
What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and a... DAVID OYELOWO We have a late 19th, 20th century way of looking at textbooks. This is the 21st century.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN JACKIE GOLDBERG Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th centur...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY Women were accustomed to making substantial efforts to please men, while men spent comparatively lit...
KATE COOPER
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. BENITO MUSSOLINI
In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was a... DAVID GERROLD
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an asp... MARTIN FILLER They could do any project dealing with a scientific process as long as it goes by Ohio standards. We...
TERESA JOHNSON
War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. I... E. J. HOBSBAWM I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedo... TADAO ANDO
I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guy... ART SPIEGELMAN We have now traced the history of women from Paradise to the nineteenth century and have heard nothi...
LADY JANE WILDE
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, N... LUIGI RUSSOLO
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteent... OSCAR WILDE
Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON
When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated ... CHINUA ACHEBE
One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of s... W.E. (WILLIAM EDWIN) SANGSTER It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that t...
MICHAEL BEHE We are living in the 21st century. It is time we respect our elephants, give them their freedom and ...
BILL ROSENDAHL
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, ... SIMON SCHAMA
In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positi... ARTHUR PEACOCKE One day men will look back and say i gave birth to the twentieth century.
JACK THE RIPPER
The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today... The poetry of history... G. M. TREVELYAN [The show featured some new dealers, among them Larry and Marie Miller of Dorset, Vt. The Millers ar...
MARIE MILLER
We of the twentieth century should not allow ourselves to think vaguely of the Middle Ages as a beni... ROBERT HUNTINGTON FLETCHER
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of ... ERIC HOFFER
Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue SAMUEL GOLDWYN Mormons think they live in their own world, ... and that Utah's this place where it's supposed to be...
QUINN ALLMAN
It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both... ANDREW COHEN Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century...
BERNARD BECKETT
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physi... FREEMAN DYSON It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nation... TERRY EAGLETON
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain ... ANGELA CARTER
Men are shameless in selling their story. Women are often reserved. So we do need to encourage women... JENNY SHIPLEY
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo... CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo... CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impa... BILLY GRAHAM
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty gl... AMOR TOWLES When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY It seems that in our twenty-first century modern world, many women have become estranged from their ...
MAHA AL MUSA What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century Americ...
FRANK CROWNINSHIELD It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will ...
JOSIAH QUINCY
Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the... ARTHUR PEACOCKE This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century...
LIONEL BARRYMORE Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century Am...
ROSS DOUTHAT When men and women multi-task, they don't feel good. And their stress can impact the entire family.
BARBARA SCHNEIDER
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subso... HENRI BERGSON
No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ... BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is ... HILARY MANTEL
I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it'... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They... JULIAN BARNES Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not need laws at all, and bad men are made no better ...
DEMONAX THE CYNIC At their core, women fear that men will kill them. At their core, men fear that women will laugh at ...
GAVIN DE BECKER I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, ...
MEG ROSOFF All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return t...
VIRCHAND GANDHI At the dawn of the twentieth century, it was already clear that, chemically speaking, you and I are ...
PHILIP NELSON 14th-century pope with a 21st-century communications network (that) sustains his church's mission of...
GEORGE MONBIOT At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend ...
ADOLF LOOS
Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of... THOMAS BERNHARD Women's interest is shoes is very complex. I think it is a late 20th- early 21st-century obsession i...
ELIZABETH SEMMELHACK
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same t... WILLIAM HAZLITT
As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue... THOMAS SOWELL I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and beg...
M. AGEYEV
The greatest futility! says the congregator, "The greatest futility! Everything is futile!" What doe... 
As thou know not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is... 
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: But if a man li... 
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficu... 
As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxoni... 
Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast. 
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit. 
Real life seems to have no plots. 
Real life seems to have no plots. 
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. 
I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate. 
Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections ... 
Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them pr... 
It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving c... 
Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitariani... 