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I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. Rick Moody
Work Library Back Finish Boston Fact New Tracing New England Am Lineage Historical Up Trying Where In Fact Century England Now Right
The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of institutions that are the envy of the civilized world. Once they were the province, both among the student and faculty bodies, of children of privilege, generally WASPs. Rick Perlstein
Education History World Envy Higher Education Creation Extraordinary Once Both Civilized Civilized World Higher Student Generally Faculty Over Institutions Powerhouse Were Province Privilege American The History Of Children Story Century Bodies Twentieth Twentieth Century Wasps Among Set
I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst. Robert Byrd
Today Hope Government Best Achievement Fear Seen Half Congress Despair Our Worst See More Through Half Century Been Times Than Century Lived
As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership. Robert Dallek
Leadership Thought Power Presidents Staying Staying Power Someone More Shaping Most Passing Accomplishments Than Often Little Acquaintance Century Views Who Popular
In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority. Robert Dallek
Late Threatened Mainly Protest Overturn Authority Established Movement Century Workers Farmers
I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.' Robert Duvall
Lonesome Godfather Hits Biggest Century Fortunate Dove Last Last Century Two
Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity. Robert H. Schuller
History Seriously Will Christianity Pentecostal Brought Voice Taken Name Roberts Oral Movement Century Twentieth Twentieth Century
When historians consider the significance of the Berlin crises of the mid-20th century, I do not believe that they will record it as an incident in the encirclement of freedom. The true view, in my judgment, will be to see it rather as a major episode in the recession of communism. Robert Kennedy
Freedom Communism Will Judgment Believe Recession Consider Crises Berlin Significance See Record Rather True Major Historians Century Episode View Incident
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people. Robert Morgan
People Long Poems Written Well Read Well Known Known Narrative Lot Very Century Many
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. Robert Morgan
You Way Minute About Poetry Lifetime Powerful Devices Most Most Powerful Talking Passes Go Century Use
There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century. Robert Nelson
Art Time History Technology Medium Once Were Art History Survived Same Frozen Century Film Early Basically
The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; not always easy to do. But it's a good slogan, I think. Robert Pinsky
Good Trust Wonderful Entitled Poet Live Think Say Slogan Easy Poem Robert Wrote Always Verses Century
The 20th century saw three great-power confrontations. Two of them turned into total war. We lucked out on the third. Do we really want to roll those dice again? Robert Zubrin
War Three Saw Those Out Total Total War Dice Roll Want Again Confrontation Them Century Turned Really Two Third
Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century. Roberto Benigni
Geniuses Kubrick Century Stanley Stanley Kubrick
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages. Roger Bannister
Great Family People About Small Had Until Years Same Stability Century Village Villages Lived Actually Last Last Century
It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness. Rollo May
People Problem Practice Own Say Colleagues My Own Well Emptiness Sound Clinical Surprising Chief Decade May Psychiatric Middle Psychological Century Twentieth Twentieth Century Basis
The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society. Ron Kind
Success Creative Will Important Single Society Innovative Our Ability Determining Factor Maintaining Most America Century
There have been times when I played more than others, but I've been a road comic for a quarter of a century, so I've always played golf on the road because you have a lot of time to kill. Ron White
Time You Others More Road Because Always Comic Quarter Been Lot Times Than Golf Century Played
The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Today Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Possibilities Part Institution Exist Existed Human Achieved Movement Again Social Century Commune Creating Belief Satisfaction Utopia Growth Right
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. Rowan Williams
History Tyranny Inevitable Nothing Complacent Tell Tells About Also May Century Us Twentieth Twentieth Century Humankind Recent Recent History
Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century. Russell Lynes
Fanfare Century
'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century. Russell Means
People Down Indian Indians Brought New Policy Been American Century American People Now
If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century. Ruth Bernhard
Beauty Our Has-Been Particular Because Female Been Form Sensual Century Exploited Chosen
Music has become something different from the past, when it was one hundred per cent live. Throughout the twentieth century, it was recorded, and the medium adjusted. Ryuichi Sakamoto
Music Become Past Live Medium Hundred Adjusted Per Something Recorded Throughout Different Cent Century Twentieth Twentieth Century
Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it. S. Jay Olshansky
Physician Ancient Arabic Immortality Seductive Physical Sought Hindus Greek Century Believed
People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain. Sam Kean
People Silver More Adored Fact Color Reminded Obtain Became Because Metal Than Precious Gold In Fact Which Them Century Sparkle Element Harder Luster
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