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Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ↗

— Greg Egan

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

— Norman Mailer

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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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

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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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Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

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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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As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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