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I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

~Arne Glimcher

Topics: Always Been Century Dreams Love Movies 20Th Century

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The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day.

~Arnold Newman

Topics: Century Day Every Every Day He Him Houses Kind Light Lives Must Places See Subject Terms Thought Through Which Windows Works 20Th Century

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Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.

~Art Donovan

Topics: Both Both Sides Century Come Eat Family Famine Had Ireland Lips Make Make Up Making Nothing Only Over Passes Potato Reason Same Sides Since Then Tried Up Vegetable 19Th Century

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I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

~Art Spiegelman

Topics: Beginning Best Best Way Century Comics Doing Guys Had How Knew Making Supposed Those Twentieth Twentieth Century Way Were Which

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The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

~Arthur C. Clarke

Topics: Beginning Century Intelligent January Mark Millennium Minority Real Third Will World 21St Century

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There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Century Doubt Fundamental Half Last Little Midst More Much Nature Political Profound Revolution Revolutions Social Than

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Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Architecture Celebrate Century Chance Committed Developer Enterprise Entrepreneur His Last Last Century Poor Substitute Today Whom Work Worth

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We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Ancient Because Century Difficult Find Japan Little More Persist Proven Prowess Still Though Traditions Understand 20Th Century

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Trade allegedly does not foster growth because when it begins, a flood of imports of factory origin destroys the handicraft manufacturing of the less developed country: the models for this are the effects of British exports of textiles and of iron in India and Chile in the first half of the nineteenth century.

~Arthur Lewis

Topics: Because Begins British Century Chile Country Destroys Developed Does Effects Exports Factory First Flood Foster Growth Half Handicraft Imports India Iron Less Manufacturing Models Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Origin Trade

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In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

~Arthur Peacocke

Topics: Anglican Both Catholic Century Embraced Evangelical Evolution Many Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Positively Proposal Theologians

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