#twentieth century

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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Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality. ↗

— Michael Arlen

#century #different #existence #lenses #lessons

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#continually #different #family #grew #half

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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This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts. ↗

— Alfred Leslie Rowse

#filthy #guts #hate #i #twentieth

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

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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

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#each #event #horror #new #reverberation

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#fascism #history #known #religion #twentieth

On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#basis #between #century #deeply #financial