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For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe. - Kelly Miller Quotes
You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth. - Henry Campbell Bannerman Quotes
Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day. - John Bracken Quotes
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. - Lukas Foss Quotes
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. - Stephen Ambrose Quotes
Latinos have fought in all of Americas wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago. - Joe Baca Quotes
As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone. - Stanley Schmidt Quotes
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them. - Christian Lous Lange Quotes
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. - Gertrude Stein Quotes
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half. - Andrew Greeley Quotes
There is still this Lords of Yesteryear mentality that tries to keep holding on to resource policies that were designed a century ago. - Mark Udall Quotes
However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library. - Richard Ernst Quotes
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
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 Quotes
I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement. - Rene Cassin Quotes
In the last half century we havent had Presidential leadership that addressed this question in the broadest and most important aspect. - Gaylord Nelson Quotes
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era. - Harold Bloom Quotes
There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it. - Helen Reddy Quotes
I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges. - Lord Robertson Quotes
Ive always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story. - John Irving Quotes
One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here! - June Jordan Quotes
Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route. - Theodore Bikel Quotes
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. - Henry George Quotes
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time. - John Fowles Quotes
How do we get democracy at the international level? Thats our problem. and its essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally. - Susan George Quotes
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. - Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
We have a set of sensible policies that are appropriate for the 21st century and which strike a chord of appeal with the silent majority. Perhaps that is why we are welcoming new members every week who have never before been involved in politics. - Steve Blake Quotes
Im not an historian and Im not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody whos walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. - Penelope Lively Quotes
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. - Margaret Mead Quotes
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it. - John Masefield Quotes
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