Century Quotes - Page 3

• Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

  Tom Selleck

  School, Class, Guilt

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• The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

  Ellen Key

  Self, Movement, Affirmation

  Ellen Key (2016). “The century of the child”, p.32, Ellen Key

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• I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

  Dave Heineman

  Believe, Quality, Proud

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• Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

  Russell Lynes

  Ragtime, 20th Century, Fanfare

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• I am a person of the 18th century.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  18th Century, Persons

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• The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

  M. H. Abrams

  Biblical, Enlightenment, Philosopher

  "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

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• Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.

  Bill Jenkins

  Virginia, Hymns, Community

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• The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Made, Worst

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• It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century

  Lawrence Summers

  Europe, Would Be, Shapes

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• My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Goal, Challenges, Working Together

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• Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

  Elihu Root

  Animal, Men, Aggravation

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

  Lukas Foss

  Art, Inspiration, Ideas

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• A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Friendship, Passion, Three

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• John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  Isaac Asimov

  War, Records, World

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• Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.

  Anthony Principi

  Kids, Iraq, Care

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• I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Doubt, Ifs

  "'Cooler than Warhol, more enduring than Freud'". Interview with Jonathan Jones, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2006.

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• Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

  Ross Martin

  College, Firsts, Watches

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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, Surface, Changed

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• Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

  Ken Burns

  Important, Jazz, Physics

  Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns (2000). “Jazz: a history of America's music”, Knopf

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• It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

  Christopher Bond

  Competition, Needs, Graduates

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• The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

  Ida B. Wells

  Cutting, Lynching, Ears

  "Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought". Book by everly Guy-Sheftall, p. 73, 1995.

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• Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.

  Bob Dylan

  Taken, People, Age

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

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• The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

  Gavin Newsom

  Safety, Focus, Eras

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• Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Substitutes, 20th Century

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• The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

  Claude Debussy

  Airplane

  "Music in History: The Evolution of an Art". Book by Howard Decker McKinney and William Robert Anderson, 1957.

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