#century

I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

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Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things. ↗

— Lee Krasner

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One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them. ↗

— Andrew Tobias

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Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century. ↗

— Palmiro Togliatti

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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

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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. ↗

— Dave Anderson

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Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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