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I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

~David Hockney

Topics: Any Century Doubt Greatest Other Picasso Think Without I Think 20Th Century

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A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

~David Hume

Topics: Acquainted Been Beginning Century Every His History Knowledge Lived Making Man May Respect Said Some Stock World

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One of the most important secret societies of the 20th century is called the Round Table. It is based in Britain with branches across the world. It is the Round Table that ultimately orchestrates the network of the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

~David Icke

Topics: Across Affairs Based Branches Britain Century Commission Council Foreign Group Important Institute International Most Network Relations Round Royal Secret Societies Table The Most Important Ultimately World 20Th Century

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Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of Leiden in the early part of the 20th century.

~David Lee

Topics: Began Century Discovery Early Helium Low Modern Part Physics Temperature University 20Th Century

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The commitment to literacy was constant on the part of African Americans. And the percentages of literacy by the end of the century, by 1900, basic literacy has galloped ahead. People believed that education, of course, was the turnstile for advancement.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: Advancement African African Americans American Basic Believed Century Commitment Constant Course Education End Literacy Part People Ahead

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I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.

~David Liss

Topics: Adage Based Britain Century Decided Dissertation Knew Know Novel Old Research Should Would Write You 18Th Century

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I think the Occupy movement is absolutely fantastic; in my opinion, it's probably one of the most important people's movements of the 21st century and the 20th century. The trouble is that nobody really wants to support what they represent. They are too 'grassroots' for their own good.

~David Lloyd

Topics: Absolutely Century Fantastic Good Grassroots Important In My Opinion Most Movement Movements Nobody Occupy Opinion Own People Really Represent Support The Most Important Think Too Trouble Wants I Think 20Th Century 21St Century

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I live in the 20th century. I have copper rivets on my jeans.

~David Maisel

Topics: Century Copper Jeans Live 20Th Century

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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

~David Mccullough

Topics: About Also America Army Book Century Eighteenth Focus Low Next Point Revolution Set States United United States United States Of America War Washington Year

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When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.

~David Novak

Topics: Around Century Emerged Jews Modern Most Opposed Orthodox Political Turn Twentieth Twentieth Century Zionism

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