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That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.
by Mark Morris (Dancer, American , born in 1956) keywords: art, badly, because, been, century, choreographed, eventually, loathe, many, may, piece, times, twentieth , works One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
by Malcolm Muggeridge (Journalist, British , born in 1903) keywords: anything, been, beings, believe, believing, century, credulity, developed, god, high, human, level, much, nothing, peculiar, said, sin, sins, stop, truth, twentieth, very, which , worse Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.
by Simon Newcomb (Mathematician, Canadian , born in 1835) keywords: bird, century, continent, destined, enable, exceeding, far, fly, forces, likely, natural, quite, see, speed, twentieth, us, which , will As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.
by Kenzaburo Oe (Writer, Japanese , born in 1935) keywords: century, continually, different, family, grew, half, hardships, japanese, large, latter, life, living, realms, relationship, society, suffer, twentieth, up , way Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
by Dennis Prager (Journalist, American , born in 1948) keywords: although, cause, century, changing, conform, evil, fact, forcefully, greatest, images, lives, monstrous, perfect, perfection, personal, societal, societies, society, twentieth, unhappiness , utopian On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
by Carroll Quigley (Writer, American , born in 1910) keywords: back, basis, between, century, deeply, financial, foreign, george, goes, grew, into, life, london, new, originally, penetrated, policy, power, practice, press, structure, twentieth, university, up, which , york The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
by Ron Silver (Actor, American , born in 1946) keywords: barbarism, before, century, exhibited, human, just, lack, life, massive, respect, scale, twentieth , unknown Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
by Alexander Solzhenitsynkeywords: anywhere, century, disease, diseases, else, more, press, psychic, reflected, superficiality, than , twentieth I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.
by Art Spiegelman (Artist, American , born in 1948) keywords: beginning, best, century, comics, doing, guys, had, how, knew, making, supposed, those, twentieth, way, were , which The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
by Adlai E. Stevenson (Politician, American , born in 1970) keywords: attended, basis, century, great, nations, part, right, small, twentieth, united, vote, weight , whole Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
by Hunter S. Thompson (Journalist, American , born in 1937) keywords: america, century, could, george, human, men, monument, only, president, race, run, truly, twentieth , understood 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.
by Rowan D. Williamskeywords: also, century, complacent, history, humankind, inevitable, may, nothing, recent, tell, tells, twentieth, tyranny , us The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
by Anzia Yezierska (Novelist, Polish , born in 1880) keywords: ages, century, children, ghetto, live, middle, roof, trouble, twentieth, under , us
