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• Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

  Edward Witten

  Nature, Simplicity, Physics

  "Viewpoints on String Theory: Edward Witten". "NOVA" interview, www.pbs.org. July 2003.

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• Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

  Martin Scorsese

  Art, Jazz, Film

  "What Inspires Martin Scorsese". Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.

  Eric Ries

  Couple, Technology, Years

  "Ideas Are Overrated: Startup Guru Eric Ries’ Radical New Theory". Interview with Carlye Adler, www.wired.com. April 30. 2011.

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• I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Thinking, Voice

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• For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented and partly because, until recently, people didn't care. We used euphemisms like 'sackings' and 'sieges' instead of calling them 'genocides.'

  Steven Pinker

  People, Calling, Care

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• Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

  Ron Paul

  War, Party, Thinking

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

  Janet Napolitano

  School, Technology, Years

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• At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Ideas, Germany, Austria

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• If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Character, Culture

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• We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

  Mitch McConnell

  Country, Stories, Social

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• The different American experience of the 20th Century is crucial because the lesson of the century for Europe, which essentially is that the human condition is tragic, led it to have a build a welfare system and a set of laws and social arrangements that are more prophylactic than idealistic. It's not about building perfect futures; it's about preventing terrible pasts. I think that is something that Europeans in the second half of the 20th century knew in their bones and Americans never did, and it's one of the big differences between the two Western cultures.

  Tony Judt

  Past, Thinking, Perfect

  "Postwar". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. December 20, 2005.

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• Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

  Dean Koontz

  Two, Evil, Literature

  "Contemplating Evil: An Interview with Dean Koontz". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Lisa Snell, Reason magazine, reason.com. November, 1996.

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• Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

  Nathan Fillion

  Giving, Pay, Foxes

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• We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Japan, Littles

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

  James Wolcott

  Art, Book, Design

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• I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

  Tom Wolfe

  Believe, Important, Half

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• In the 20th century there's was the long-running division in the Republican Party between what was known as Wall Street and Main Street Republicans. And sort of different expectations about the use of the federal government.

  John Aldrich

  Wall, Party, Expectations

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.

  Jeffrey Smart

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

  George Meany

  Struggle, Labels, Pieces

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• Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.

  R. C. Sproul

  Atheist, Philosophy, Men

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• The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.

  A. Hunter Dupree

  Hard Work, Science, Government

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• Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

  Ken Burns

  Music, America, Jazz

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• It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Views, Europe

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• Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and as a result. The mainstream hasn’t excluded SF; the mainstream has excluded itself. No one told Jules Verne he was a science fiction writer, but he invented the 20th century.

  Walter Mosley

  Writing, Mutation, Fiction

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• Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.

  Jon Krakauer

  College, Thinking, Careers

  "Fictional character: Alex". "Into the Wild", 2007.

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