#twentieth

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse. ↗

— Bing Crosby

#country #few #few things #giant #i

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

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts. ↗

— Alfred Leslie Rowse

#filthy #guts #hate #i #twentieth

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#become #century #detriment #developed #fact

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

Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#appeared #century #china #christianity #earth

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 most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#exciting #exciting thing #most #science #thing

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

— Helen Reddy

#century #generation #hasn #heard #music