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nineteenth
«I particularly regretted winning at the nineteenth hole by the aid of a stymie which was almost impossible to negotiate.»
«It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by no means impossible that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written: Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet. And the reply, absurd as it doubtless seems to most men now living, may be an obvious commonplace to their descendants»
Author: Josiah Quincy
| About:
History
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«Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| About:
Sex
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activity, century, cure, disease, mankind, masturbation, nineteenth, nineteenth century, primaries, primary, sexual, sexual activity, twentieth, twentieths
«I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.»
«Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.»
Author: Lillian Hellman
(Playwright)
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nineteenth, nineteenth century, ruling, ruling class, Russia, The Ruling Class, twentieth century
«And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: / And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.»
«In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
God is dead, nineteenth, nineteenth century, twentieth, twentieths, twentieth century
«Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.»
«If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
age of the, couch, editorial, editorials, nineteenth
«Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
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