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#twentieth century

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


Gertrude Stein


#believed #century #does #nineteenth #nineteenth century

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.


Karen Armstrong


#britain #century #countries #every #france

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.


Russell Baker


#century #comic #english #english literature #literature

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.


Lionel Barrymore


#along #appeal #because #century #come

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.


Maurice Merleau-Ponty


#elucidate #irrational #mission #twentieth #twentieth century

That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.


Mark Morris


#badly #because #been #century #choreographed

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.


Freeman Dyson


#become #biology #century #part #physics

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


#century #children #ghetto #live #middle

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.


Helen Dunmore


#deny #ever #existed #kill #obsessed

I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.


Jenna Elfman


#called #century #day #deal #development






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