Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
Kate Williams
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This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier.
Cass Sunstein
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.
P. J. O'Rourke
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
Lafcadio Hearn
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There's no way you can deliver 'the greatest musical of the century.'
Gavin Creel
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Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.
John Bracken
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For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.
Robert Littell
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Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.
Michael Beschloss
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Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
Stephen Ambrose
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