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A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an escape from daily life that included adventure and love and battle. But in the 20th century, that term changed, and now it's deemed only a love story, specifically a courtship story. Diana Gabaldon
Life Love Daily Battle Love Story Changed Definition Only Adventure Term Genre Courtship Escape Romance Story Century Deemed Included Now Daily Life Specifically
It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious civil war, not a nationalistic movement. Diana Gabaldon
War Remember Important Religious Civil Civil War Nationalistic Movement Century
Now I've got a fairly good grasp of the 18th century on what was common and what people thought. But I don't write in order. I write bits and pieces and sort of glue them. Diana Gabaldon
Good People Thought Bits Bits And Pieces Write Pieces Fairly Sort Got Glue Common Order Them Century Grasp Now
When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to sainthood. And they're not going to be well-known. Dick Morris
History People Entitled Some Pretty Obscure Written Sainthood Going The History Of Century Who
Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century. Dick Thornburgh
Political Rest Nation National State Though System Has-Been Borders Economic Within Island Territory Arrest Been Integration National Borders Political System Convergence Century Customs Rico Even Puerto
That is amazing that a guy like St. Jerome who lived in the fourth century could bring people together. Sometimes you think people are dead and forgotten. But they can actually bring you together in the best way. Dion DiMucci
Best You Together People Sometimes Amazing Think Way Best Way Guy Could Like Dead Forgotten Century Who Lived Actually Bring Fourth
Only a Conservative government can credibly deliver the overhaul in approach that will ensure the controlled immigration that Britain needs to prosper in the 21st century. Dominic Grieve
Government Needs Conservative Immigration Will Conservative Government Approach Ensure Only Deliver Prosper Controlled Century Britain
In the 21st century, we face new and more intense global competition, spanning the ambitious and industrious economies from Latin America to Asia. To meet the challenge, Britain must rediscover and reward the lost virtue of hard work - a tried and tested route to individual success, national prosperity, and a fairer society. Dominic Raab
Success Work Hard Work Competition Prosperity Reward Challenge Face National Lost Society Meet Virtue Latin Latin America Must Tried More Individual Economies New Global Fairer Industrious Rediscover Tested Ambitious America Intense Asia Century Hard Route Britain
As I look at the barn in my ninth decade, I see the no-smoking sign, rusted and tilting on the unpainted gray clapboard. My grandfather, born in 1875, milked his cattle there a century ago. Donald Hall
Ninth Sign See Born Look Cattle His Decade Century Grandfather Barn Gray
Hurricane Katrina was the storm of the 21st century. It devastated an area the size of Great Britain. More than 1,800 Americans died. Three hundred thousand homes were destroyed. There was $96 billion in property damage. I served on the Louisiana Recovery Authority. I saw Congress write one big check and then skip town. Donna Brazile
Great Property Three Big Congress Great Britain Hundred Saw Destroyed Thousand Hurricane Hurricane Katrina More Area Recovery Write Devastated Check Town Were Than Louisiana American Authority Died Size Storm Century Then Skip Billion Katrina Homes Served Britain Damage
We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system. Donna Shalala
Education Saying You Quality School Higher Education Drive Down Increased Secondary Secondary School Unless System Higher Taken Wisconsin School System Come Schools Courses Did Transform Century Requirements Skills Helped Need
We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated. Doug Aitken
Art Once Way Isolated Art Forms Forms Them Century Engaging Many Presented
The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature. Doug Aitken
Music Art Architecture Made Way Defined Diverse Various Instead Individuals Simultaneously Period Occupy However Cultural Up Same Artistic Movements Literature Century Really Working Across Platforms Film Now Film Music
One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effective response to the cost-of-living crisis but a more fundamental error about what makes for success in the 21st century. Douglas Alexander
Success Ignorance Conservative Big Party Conservative Party Crisis Response Weaknesses About More Makes Effective Error Lack Just Century Fundamental
The Conservatives are so busy focusing on yesterday, they're not focused on tomorrow... on how elections are won in the 21st century. Douglas Alexander
Tomorrow Yesterday Busy Conservatives Focused Focusing How Won Century Elections
Usually, one day in a century rises above the others as an accepted turning point or historic milestone. It becomes the climactic day, or 'the day,' of that century. Douglas Brinkley
Day Others One Day Above Rises Point Accepted Becomes Historic Century Turning Turning Point Milestone
I love throwing myself into a place or a period or a point of view. In 'Fledermaus,' I loved throwing myself into the world of Vienna at the turn of the century. It was a lot of fun. Douglas Carter Beane
Love Myself World Point Point Of View Throwing Period Lot Loved Place Turn Century Vienna View Fun
Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then. Douglas Kirkland
Life Today You Reality Half Whatever Field Changed Enter Had Doing Times Than Person Did Different Century Then Much Different Person Adapt
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. Douglas MacArthur
War History Peace Honor Every Has-Been Would Could Advance Line Been Accorded Yield Contribution Which Century Hence
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. Douglas Sirk
Politics Art You Beauty Had Almost Idea Bourgeois Without Frozen Century
It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century. Dwight Yoakam
People Old Abandonment Part Became Metaphor Occurred West Century Film Lives Early
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. E. L. Doctorow
Life People Become State Relationships Intimate Fact Detriment Developed Most Always Governments Very Person Personal Personal Relationships Century Twentieth Twentieth Century
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt. E. O. Wilson
Life Quality Humanity People Problem Key Better Entirely More More People Facing Better Quality Attempt Environment Obvious Quality Of Life Without How Coming Century Billion Bring
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century. Eavan Boland
Faith Good Writing Censorship Distance Good Reason Had Tense Terrible Sources Ireland Irish Literature Century Produced Reason Twentieth Twentieth Century Suffered Kept
In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works. Eddie Obeng
World Somebody Changed Our Rules Our World About Something How Century Works
The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there. Edgar Mitchell
Best Experience Water Moon Down Earth Stations Entire More Exceedingly Fact Hazardous Almost Over Learn Scientific How Least Antarctica Exist Conditions Than Century Far
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