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Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.' ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

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There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it. ↗

— Helen Reddy

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If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake. ↗

— George Ripley

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We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

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We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

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