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«I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.»
Author: Alan Turing
(Logician, Mathematician)
| Keywords:
altered, contradicted, End Of The Century, expecting, machines
«The Pope has swept through Africa, where 5 million people are already infected with the AIDS virus, and which expects by the end of the century to have 10 million orphans whose parents have died of AIDS - and told them not to use condoms»
«One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends»
Author: Caryl Rivers
| Keywords:
End Of The Century, inventions, studied, twentieth, twentieth century
«Our history sings of centuries Such varying songs it sings! It starts with winds, slow moving sails, It ends with skies and wings»
Author: Catherine Cate Coblentz
| About:
History
| Keywords:
centuries, End Of The Century, moving, sails, sings, skies, slow-moving, songs, starts, varying, winds, wings
«This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.»
Author: Judith Thurman
| Keywords:
coat, cole, End Of The Century, Great River, haze, motionless, The River, varnish, varnished
«The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
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absolve, absolved, acquiring, barbarism, deteriorates, End Of The Century, Future of, infinitely small, millennia, millennium, physical world, prosperous, Return Of, The Millennium, uncertain
«From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes. . . . In the process, the US caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.»
«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
| Keywords:
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
«Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.»
Author: Joseph Brodsky
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
End Of The Century, Russian literature, twentieth, twentieth century
«Well I failed to bring Roger to Flint. As we neared the end of the twentieth century, the rich were richer, the poor, poorer. And people everywhere now had a lot less lint, thanks to the lint rollers made in my hometown. It was truly the dawn of a new era.»
Author: Michael Moore
(Author, Film Director)
| Keywords:
End Of The Century, era, Flint, flints, hometown, neared, New Era, poorer, richer, Roger, rollers, twentieth, twentieth century
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