#twentieth century

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

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There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it. ↗

— Helen Reddy

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Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

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