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«The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democrac»
Author: Alex Carey
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«The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: ''Is this all?''»
Author: Betty Friedan
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«The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect.»
Author: Lewis Thomas
(Physician, Writer)
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«The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.»
Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
(Civil-Rights Leader, Scholar, Sociologist)
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«The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
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Progress,
Science
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«The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
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«The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.»
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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«The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety»
Author: Norman Mailer
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«The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
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«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»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
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