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Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.


Ludwig Quidde


#considerably #encouraged #end #had #increased

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.


George Ripley


#benefit #century #crowning #discover #glory

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.


John Kenneth Galbraith


#century #few #few people #needed #nineteenth

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.


Bert Campaneris


#leagues #made #major #major leagues #never

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.


Christian Lous Lange


#century #created #deliberate #during #europe

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


#century #emancipation #greatest #history #intense

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.


Erich Fromm


#dead #god #god is dead #man #nineteenth

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.


Henry Louis Gates


#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been

I always wake up early in a strange bed. I looked at Bertrand, I wonder about him. There was a sort of easy grace in whatever he did, He didn't talk much. I watched this boy sleeping beside me. God, was he tall, and handsome. I was surprised, during the night, when he's told me he was only nineteen. I never would have imagined this kind of cool confidence could come so early to a person. But nineteen, after all, wasn't so far off. I remembered how stupid I was in my relations with other people then.


Michèle Bernstein


#confidence #nineteen #relationships #sex #teenager

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.


Christopher Dawson


#been #century #civilization #cooperation #development






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