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The United States, of course, in the late 19th century was extraordinarily corrupt. Evan Osnos
Extraordinarily Late States Corrupt Course Century United United States
If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity. Fatema Mernissi
History Women Men Islam Awareness Mediocrity Late One Thing Sure Women And Men Egotism Heaven Sent Century Who Foster Thing Enjoyment
In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story. Felix Dennis
Will Made Beginning Make End America In The End Story Century Railroads
I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure. Fernando Botero
Art Seen Single Painting Saw Churches Small Colonial Picasso Had Since Course Very Modern Any Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Century Sculpture Painters Exposure Museum Museums
England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century. Fidel Castro
Power First Half Caribbean East East Asia Colonial Part True Over Islands Australia Dominion North North America America Africa Middle Middle East Asia Century Use England Large Many Large Part
During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country. Fidel Castro
Country Half Living Our Respectful Located Through Had Towards Always Were Years Erudition Privilege Canadians Intensive Region Century Realized Twentieth Twentieth Century Hemisphere Second
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. Floyd Abrams
Law Thirty Press Out Know Protective Within Quarter Quarter Century Years Lot Very Public Century Turned Right Last
By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts - the Bible, the Koran, the Rig Veda - but physicist-priests will preside over the ceremonies. Frank Tipler
Bible Church Will Reading Worship Take Over Koran Passages Still Traditional Texts Decades Form Century Ceremonies Rig Last
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit. Frederick Pollock
You Political Will Revolution Side Consider See Fact Merit Gospel Essay Century Working Pamphlet
Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business. Frederick W. Smith
Business Beginning Out Steadily Arena Gotten Governments Century Then Transportation International Acts
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. Freeman Dyson
Wisdom Physics Will Become Biology Say Part Accepted Century Twentieth Twentieth Century Twenty-First
Live with your century; but do not be its creature. Friedrich Schiller
Live Century Your Creature
The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. Gabriel Lippmann
Photography Problem Has-Been Direct Facing Colour Since Been Turn Century Us Last Last Century
Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied. Gary Hamel
Welfare Building Corporate Imply Most Return Practices Want Century Us Organizations
For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years. Gary Locke
People Opportunity State Seek He Generations Come Came Years Governor Privileged Did Shores Just Eight Just One Century Grandfather Worked Inhabit Mansion Mile Washington Washington State Seattle
The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic. Geoffrey Boycott
Success Failure Own Cricket Magic Between Score Reflected May Often Difference Century Illogical
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. Georg C. Lichtenberg
People Genius Before Possess Perceiving Talent Itself Decade Done Century Much Certain Who Even Desires
Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century. George C. Williams
Understanding Ought Religions Disappeared Over Attitudes Traditional Accumulate Century Many Foster Biological Last Last Century
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples. George Edward Woodberry
Art Age School Will Fall Painting Drama Distinctive Restricted Seems Examples Poetry Lifetime Schools Likewise Periods Within Limit Greek Often Spanish Victorian Century Sculpture Cycles Pope English Vigorous Serve Growth Two
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
Mistake Will Radical Benefit Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Indifferent Crowning Remarks Soon Masses Glory Discover Any Movement Literary Which Century Tone Imagine
Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country. George Vecsey
Old Tough Country Imitating Settlers Say Kids Dates Soon Sportsmanship Prairie Historians Preached Version Began Canada Handshake Upper-Class Hockey Old Country Urban Century English Who Imagined
I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster. Geri Halliwell
Tired Word Faster Mention Around Go Little Century
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. Gertrude Stein
Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Logic Hopes Cosmic Had Ideals Terms Discoveries Lacking Century Aspirations
It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff. Gil Gerard
Better Space Alien Will Related Everyman Having More Stuff Concentrate Like Him Dealing Years Little Century Planet Fun Now
I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years. Gilbert Gottfried
Change People Sometimes Imitations Onstage Know Dead Doing Been Years References Century Act Who
This century, the 21st century, will be the Indian century - and I really believe that. Ginni Rometty
Will Believe Indian Century Really
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