#century

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

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Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

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When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

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It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe. ↗

— Harry Reid

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Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century. ↗

— Balthus

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Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. ↗

— Albert Camus

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