#century

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...' ↗

— Brian Eno

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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

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Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it. ↗

— Tony Visconti

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Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#also #century #complacent #history #humankind

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof. ↗

— Anzia Yezierska

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The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

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When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry. ↗

— Loretta Young

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To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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