#twentieth century

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The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.


Anzia Yezierska


#century #children #ghetto #live #middle

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.


Art Spiegelman


#best #best way #century #comics #doing

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.


Rush Limbaugh


#greatest #president #reagan #ronald #ronald reagan

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.


Norman Mailer


#each #event #horror #new #reverberation

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.


John McGahern


#almost #century #ireland #nineteenth #nineteenth century

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.


Margaret Mead


#first #first time #get #jump #life

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.


Benito Mussolini


#fascism #history #known #religion #twentieth

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.


Simon Newcomb


#century #continent #destined #enable #exceeding

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


#basis #between #century #deeply #financial

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


Helen Reddy


#century #generation #hasn #heard #music