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


Maurice Merleau-Ponty


#elucidate #irrational #mission #twentieth #twentieth century

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

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.


Marshall McLuhan


#ads #cave #century #twentieth #twentieth century

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.


Robertson Davies


#been #before #century #lot #make

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

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.


Juan Goytisolo


#century #conceptual #criticism #drama #etc

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

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.


John McGahern


#almost #century #ireland #nineteenth #nineteenth century

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


Isaac Bashevis Singer


#complete #flop #half #second #twentieth

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


#first #foremost #had #lab #library






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