#century

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later. ↗

— Pat Sajak

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Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

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The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done. ↗

— Peter Singer

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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. ↗

— John Templeton

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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. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

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As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness. ↗

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

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Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

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