Twentieth Quotes
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Twentieth-century art may...
Henry Ellis
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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude Stein
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We`re still trying to break records on the twentieth anniversary of Live Aid. I`ve just heard Bob Geldof has put Phil Collins on a jet to Philadelphia. There`s nothing going on there, we just don`t want him around this year. No I`m joking, of course we di...
Ricky Gervais
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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. Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses a...
Lionel Barrymore
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Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
Alex Urquhart
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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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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.
Ahmed Bedier
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The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
Ron Silver
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The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.
Alan Keyes
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That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I`m loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.
Amadou Doutchi
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Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.
Rush Limbaugh
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Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.
Andrea Solari
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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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One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends
Annie Norman
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One day men will look back and say i gave birth to the twentieth century.
Jack The Ripper
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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.
Amy Fischer
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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 ...
Amanda Silverman
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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
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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
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I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.
Jenna Elfman
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
Benito Mussolini
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Designed in 1959, the copper-clad dome is a great example of the more adventurous architectural feats of the twentieth century,
Ian Campbell
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
Karen Armstrong
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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.
Allen Sinai
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The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife stru...
Betty Friedan
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From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are...
R.D. Laing
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