#century

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#back #century #end #going #had

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#century #ever #great #into #made

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#change #convulsive #demographic #huge #leaves

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five. ↗

— Mark-Paul Gosselaar

#century #did #first #first thing #five

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#best #best way #century #comics #doing

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century. ↗

— George C. Williams

#biological #century #disappeared #foster #last

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#annual #assembly #binding #century #congresses

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#anything #century #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. ↗

— Ken Burns

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Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. ↗

— Ken Burns

#accurate #america #century #curiously #jazz