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It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.

~Clifford Geertz

Topics: Actually Always Amusing Anthropology Been Century Did Done Early Enormous Finger How Look Now Put Shift Someone Something Who Written You Your 20Th Century

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Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Century Course Dime End Ignorance Irony Made Novels Remained Were Without 19Th Century

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It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

~Conan O'Brien

Topics: Born Century Economy Good Good Thing Part Seems Superfluous Television Thing A Good Thing I Was Born

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Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Both Century Class Goes Like Next Racism See Sexism Us Warfare I See

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We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: African African Americans American Battling Century Major Major Part Now Part Racism Spent 20Th Century

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In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.

~Corita Kent

Topics: Artist Campbell Cans Century Difference Eighteenth Everyday Garden Gentlemen Highway His Ladies Make May Out Real Signs Something Soup Still Swings Takes Today Tries World

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Fred Sanger was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Century Fred Important Most Scientists The Most Important 20Th Century

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Everybody is looking for a naturally occurring algae that is going to be a miracle cell to save the world, and after a century of looking, people still haven't found it.

~Craig Venter

Topics: After Cell Century Everybody Found Going Looking Miracle Naturally People Save Save The World Still World

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One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

~Criss Angel

Topics: Art Because Cell Century Chinese Demonstrations Drowning Early Escape Fears Harry He Helplessness His Icon Inspirations Our Over Primal Remains Torture Triumph Water 20Th Century

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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

~Daisaku Ikeda

Topics: Believe Century Coexistence Contribute Firmly Humankind Mission Must Peaceful Religion 21St Century

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