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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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«One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends»
Author: Caryl Rivers
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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 fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century»
Author: William Lyon Phelps
(Educator, Journalist, Professor)
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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 major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind»
Author: Henri Bergson
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
subsoil, twentieth, twentieth century, unconscious mind
«Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Achievement,
Students
| Keywords:
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«Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.»
Author: Rush Limbaugh
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«The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation»
Author: Norman Mailer
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event, horror, paucity, reverberation, size, twentieth, twentieths, twentieth century
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