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We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other. We witnessed the final stages of egoic madness in the 20th century, and even now it still is playing itself out. It has not quite come to an end yet  (20th Century Quotes) Most death now happens in hospitals. It’s been medicalized. It happens away from where we deal with it directly. And that’s a huge change. At the beginning of the 20th century most people died at home. Death was much more common  (20th Century Quotes) In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller, everything is very scaled down. Everyone is typecast  (20th Century Quotes) I’m using myself as a typical 20th century model as I’m trying to make sense out of the world around me  (20th Century Quotes) Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century  (20th Century Quotes) Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press  (20th Century Quotes) The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance  (20th Century Quotes) I’m the king of the 20th century. I’m the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family  (20th Century Quotes) No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow  (20th Century Quotes) The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can’t be trusted to keep their word to the international community  (20th Century Quotes) You had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. What brought them here? It was the hope for a better life for them and their children. And, in the main, they succeeded. It is hard to find any century in history, in which so large a number of people experience so great an improvement in the conditions of their life, in the opportunities open to them, as in the period of the 19th and early 20th century  (20th Century Quotes) I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you have to take just to keep yourself normal like a caveman. Just to bring yourself up or down, but to attain equilibrium you need to take certain drugs. They don’t getcha high even, they just getcha normal  (20th Century Quotes) 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  (20th Century Quotes) The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day  (20th Century Quotes) One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st  (20th Century Quotes) I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century  (20th Century Quotes) And their pals vote for their stuff when they’re not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. and they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date  (20th Century Quotes) We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, freud on the internal world, marx on the economic world  (20th Century Quotes) I think that if a person doesn’t feel cynical then they’re out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization, you can’t just swallow it whole  (20th Century Quotes) So bleak is the picture... That the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century  (20th Century Quotes) A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society  (20th Century Quotes) Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century  (20th Century Quotes) Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates  (20th Century Quotes) We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery  (20th Century Quotes) The mass political movements of the 20th century were vehicles for myths inherited from religion, and it is no accident that religion is reviving now that these movements have collapsed  (20th Century Quotes) Ridden with conflicts and lacking the industrial base of communism and nazism, islamism is nowhere near a danger of the magnitude of those that were faced down in the 20th century  (20th Century Quotes) The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables  (20th Century Quotes) That’s a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century  (20th Century Quotes) No one who has lived through the second half of the 20th century could possibly be blind to the enormous impact of exchange programs on the future of countries  (20th Century Quotes) But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century  (20th Century Quotes)
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