20th Century Quotes - Page 12

• Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.

  Krista Tippett

  Mass Destruction, Division, Weapons

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• Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA sequence of the human genetic code. This amazing accomplishment is likely to affect the 21st century as profoundly as the invention of the computer or the splitting of the atom affected the 20th century. I believe that the 21st century will be the century of life sciences, and nothing makes that point more clearly than this momentous discovery. It will revolutionize medicine as we know it today.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Science, Dna

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• Television is the medium of the 20th century.

  Hugh Downs

  Television, Century, Mediums

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• Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is for you to take control of that future.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  America, Dinosaurs, Extinction

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• But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century!

  David Bronstein

  Play, People, Machines

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Century, Solidarity, Best Things

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• Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.

  David S. Rose

  Century, Company, Doomed

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• The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of ships sunk, and the importance of its outcome. It included every form of naval warfare of the 20th century: gunnery duels between battleships; destroyer battles at night and by day, as ferocious and sustained as any at the Battle of Jutland; submarines that stalked the depths; sinking many ships; and finally, carrier warfare on a scale never dreamed of even by the most ardent enthusiasts of air warfare at sea.

  Richard Hough

  Night, Naval Warfare, Numbers

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• D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It was the day on which the decision was made as to who was going to rule in this world in the second half of the 20th century. Is it going to be Nazism, is it going to be communism, or are the democracies going to prevail?

  Stephen Ambrose

  Peace, War, People

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• Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

  Russell Lynes

  Ragtime, Century, Fanfare

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• Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

  Lillian Hellman

  Russia, Class, America

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• George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate and the House and to increase his own vote (by over 3.5 million) since Franklin D. Roosevelt, political genius of the 20th century, in 1936.

  Peggy Noonan

  House, Political, President

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• All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks - We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because we don’t have the Koch brothers. It takes a different kind of capital to fight that stuff.

  DJ Spooky

  Brother, Fighting, Different

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• When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing your brain to, literally, come to its senses.

  Steve Kubby

  Brain, Mind, Visionaries

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• I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

  Sydney Pollack

  Art, Real, Mean

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• The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

  Adam Hochschild

  War, Our World, Way

  "WWI: The Battle That Split Europe, And Families". "All things considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 30, 2011.

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• I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

  Cornel West

  Century, Form, Tribalism

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• Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

  Roger Corman

  Art, Facts, Film

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• Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.

  Barbara Amiel

  Movement, Communist, Century

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• Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

  Tran ?uc Luong

  Equality, Rights, Achievement

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• In the 20th century, the French managed to get a death on the myth that they produce the world's best food. The hype has been carefully orchestrated, and despite the fact that the most popular food in the last quarter has undoubtedly been Italian, the French have managed to maintain that mental grip.

  Clarissa Dickson Wright

  Italian, Hype, World

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• It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

  William Labov

  African American, Half, Slavery

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• Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

  Wellington Mara

  Taken, Century, Human Life

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• The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Technique, Century, Surface

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• The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.

  Warren Buffett

  England, Century, China

  "US will regain supremacy over next 40 years". www.abc.net.au. March 10, 2010.

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