#century

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #century #creating #dante #dejan-stojanovic

That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century. ↗

— Mark Morris

#badly #because #been #century #choreographed

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century. ↗

— Walter Murch

#20th century #age #artistic #became #century

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#america #century #change #constant #designed

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. ↗

— Edward Norton

#basically #century #conservation #dealing #ecosystems

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#been #brutal #century #human #human rights

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#century #christ #continued #faith #spread

Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world. ↗

— Jon Porter

#century #community #destroyed #european #fueled

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#bureaucrats #century #dictators #done #faceless