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First and foremost it is worth acknowledging that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century  (Century Quotes) For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people  (Century Quotes) In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation  (Century Quotes) It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China  (Century Quotes) And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it’s just been so worth the effort. It’s like I’m planting a garden in my head  (Century Quotes) At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation  (Century Quotes) Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle  (Century Quotes) I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings  (Century Quotes) In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc  (Century Quotes) Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression  (Century Quotes) It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection  (Century Quotes) It’s hard for me to think of others because I’m not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century  (Century Quotes) Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all  (Century Quotes) Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time  (Century Quotes) The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul  (Century Quotes) The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations  (Century Quotes) The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt  (Century Quotes) The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry  (Century Quotes) The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before  (Century Quotes) Today’s developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise  (Century Quotes) I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good  (Century Quotes) 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  (Century Quotes) Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both  (Century Quotes) I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century  (Century Quotes) I’ve read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium  (Century Quotes) 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  (Century Quotes) And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object  (Century Quotes) The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally  (Century Quotes) It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public’s right to know  (Century Quotes) 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  (Century Quotes)
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