The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
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Gen. Edward Cummings, in Pt. 1, Ch. 6Norman Mailer
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The twentieth century encounter between alphabetic and electronic forces of culture confers on the printed word a crucial role in staying the return to “the Africa within.”
Marshall McLuhan
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 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
Einstein entertained counterintuitive notions that allowed him to pull physics from the mechanistic, clockwork universe of the eighteenth century up into the twentieth century.
John (physicist) Moffat
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