#twentieth

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse. ↗

— Bing Crosby

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As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

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