#twentieth century

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. ↗

— Albert Camus

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts. ↗

— Alfred Leslie Rowse

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