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Letter "L" » last century
«The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.»
Author: Clarence Day
(Biographer, Essayist, Humorist, Writer)
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again and again, builds, die out, Hearts of, last century, monuments, races, remarkable, volumes
«Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.»
Author: Phyllis McGinley
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frightened, half-century, immature, last century, last half, sinful, underprivileged
«As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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agility, approaches, brush, brush up, curtains, demented, dreamy, End Of The Century, fall down, first century, icy, last century, mists, oscillated, oscillates, oscillating, roll down, The Culture, turn of the century, wash
«We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
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Americans, centuries, events, four, hours, informed, informing, informs, last century, sixty, twenty-four, twenty-four hours, twenty
«HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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extinct, in the beginning, last century, Protestants, sect
«During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.»
«During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly b»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
advanced, conflicting opinions, increasingly, last century, prevailed, unreconcilable, widely
«The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Lies,
Science
| Keywords:
have got, last century
«Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
last century, possessing, state of affairs
«To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
last century, noticing, radically, that name, turn of the century
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