Century

Coco Chanel Fashion Designer

Century

"I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time."

Fashion My Own Century

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer

Century

"This is the century of fear."

Fear Century

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Andrew Carnegie Industrialist, Philanthropist

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"To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one."

Men Peace Century

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Anne Stevenson Poet, Writer

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"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."

Century Horror Glad

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian

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"...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come."

War Cold Century

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

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"If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them."

Done Century Territory

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet

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"Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries."

Mountain Building Century

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

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"In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum."

World Way Century

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Stanley Smith Stevens Psychologist

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"A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology."

States Psychology Century

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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet

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"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."

Wells Century Nineteenth Century

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Margaret Beckett Politician

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"It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history"

Facts Natural Century

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist

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"The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century."

Facts Fiction Century

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Friedrich Schiller Playwright, Poet

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"Live with your century; but do not be its creature."

Literature Century Creatures

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Jimmy Buffett Musician, Author

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"We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds."

Work Century Monkeys

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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"The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh."

Government Individual Century

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Paul Johnson Journalist, Author

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"...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete."

Political Vices Century

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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker

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"Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries."

Fame Century Fifteen

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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist

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"I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big."

Bigs Century Having Patience

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist

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"Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century."

Century Tradition Dynamite

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader

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"The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue."

War Blood Century

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