#century

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. ↗

— Adolf Loos

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Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century. ↗

— Tran Duc Luong

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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America. ↗

— David McCullough

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One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century. ↗

— Valentina Tereshkova

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At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

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I am a child of the 21st century. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. ↗

— Walter Pater

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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. ↗

— Walter Pater

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