Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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M. Mead cited in: Ann Morse, Charles Morse, Harold Henriksen (1975) Margaret Mead, world's grandmother. p.9Margaret Mead
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Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By the time of his death, his fundamental way of thought had supplanted the system of John Maynard Keynes — his chief intellectual rival of the century — in the battle since the 1930s for the minds of economists and the policies of governments."
Friedrich Hayek
It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature.
Frederick Rolfe
The twentieth century return to Middle Age scholastics taught us a lot about formalisms. Probably it is time to look outside again. Meaning is what really matters.
Yuri I. Manin
The twentieth century was the great century of Christian martyrs, and this is true both in the Catholic Church and in other Churches and ecclesial communities.
John Paul II (Pope)
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude Stein
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