#twentieth century

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it. ↗

— Helen Reddy

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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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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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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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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

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It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on. ↗

— Michael Behe

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

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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