20th Century Quotes - Page 4

• There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

  James Buchan

  Birthday, Running, Average

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• The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

  Paul Davies

  Law, Revolution, Twins

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• I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.

  Geri Halliwell

  Tired, Littles, Century

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• I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.

  Peter Greenaway

  People, Cinema, Enthusiasm

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

  Al Gore

  War, Heart, Numbers

  "U.S. steps up global fight against AIDS" by John King, Richard Roth and Steve Salvatore, www.cnn.com. January 10, 2000.

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• 'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, People, Way

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 22, 2007.

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• My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in Paris. He didn't consider himself an artist, but he was probably one of the artists of the 20th century. This guy documented all of Paris during those years. It's unbelievable. The books are phenomenal. The Museum of Modern Art has all his stuff now and [American photographer] Berenice Abbott saved his work. Not very much is known about his life, but the work is unreal and it totally spoke to me. He was the only artist for a number of years that I cared about at all.

  Jeff Vespa

  Teacher, Art, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the most important secret societies of the 20th century is called the Round Table. It is based in Britain with branches across the world. It is the Round Table that ultimately orchestrates the network of the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

  David Icke

  Secret, Important, World

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• I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Pages Turning, Ideas

  Interview with Tom Chatfield, tomchatfield.net.

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• Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.

  Al Franken

  Football, President, Bills

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• The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

  Ken Follett

  Literary Genre, Century, Thrillers

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• With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.

  Jack Kemp

  War, Democracies Have, Evil

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• Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

  Rob Reiner

  Half, Century, Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've carried on, in that same tradition, with my kids. Aside from just his brilliance, in my estimation, I think he had one of the great imaginations of the 20th century. One of the reasons why the tradition carries on, all these years later, is because, as a parent, those are the books that you go to and pull off the shelf because they never stop delighting you.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

  Terence McKenna

  Two, Rebel, Tasks

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• It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Ideas, People, Despair

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• Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, War, Hands

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• Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter and friend of the United States and her terms as prime minister were marked as the beginning of the resurgence of the economy of the United Kingdom.

  Joe Lhota

  Government, Loyal, Kingdoms

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• Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.

  Yoko Ono

  Different, Century, Framework

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali, Robin Blackburn, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Self, Century

  "The Sane Society". Book by Erich Fromm, p. 102, 1955.

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• I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Events, Century, Ends

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• 'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian until the last part of the 20th century. Before that, you might identify as a Baptist, or a Southern Baptist or a Methodist. But there wasn't one identifier that put you in a fold with all the other believers.

  Penn Jillette

  Christian, Self, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.

  Penn Jillette

  Spring, Arrogance, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Men, Choices, Century

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.

  Tony Judt

  Perfect, Answers, Improvement

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.109, Penguin

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