Century Quotes - Page 3

• The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

  Ellen Key

  Self, Movement, Affirmation

  Ellen Key (2016). “The century of the child”, p.32, Ellen Key

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• In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

  Lukas Foss

  Art, Inspiration, Ideas

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• Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

  Tom Selleck

  School, Class, Guilt

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• Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

  Bill Jenkins

  Virginia, Hymns, Community

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• Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

  Elihu Root

  Animal, Men, Aggravation

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Goal, Challenges, Working Together

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• In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Trust, Art, Choices

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• In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Form, Faded

  John Lothrop Motley (1856). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: In three volumes”, p.25

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• Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

  Russell Lynes

  Ragtime, 20th Century, Fanfare

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• The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Made, Worst

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• I am a person of the 18th century.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  18th Century, Persons

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• The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

  John Keegan

  Years, Islam, West

  "Foreign Correspondent" with Jennifer Byrne, (ABC, Australia), October 10, 2001.

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• John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  Isaac Asimov

  War, Records, World

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• A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Friendship, Passion, Three

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• The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

  Ken Follett

  Literary Genre, Thrillers, Thriller Genre

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• I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Doubt, Ifs

  "'Cooler than Warhol, more enduring than Freud'". Interview with Jonathan Jones, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2006.

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• The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

  Ida B. Wells

  Cutting, Lynching, Ears

  "Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought". Book by everly Guy-Sheftall, p. 73, 1995.

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• As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Morning, Fall, Winter

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• As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Morning, Fall, Eye

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.224, Verso

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• Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Substitutes, 20th Century

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• Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.

  Anthony Principi

  Kids, Iraq, Care

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• The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

  Gavin Newsom

  Safety, Focus, Eras

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• It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

  Christopher Bond

  Competition, Needs, Graduates

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• Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

  Ken Burns

  Important, Jazz, Physics

  Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns (2000). “Jazz: a history of America's music”, Knopf

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• Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

  Ross Martin

  College, Firsts, Watches

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