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More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

~Dennis Prager

Topics: Bureaucrats Century Dictators Done Faceless Harm More Than Tyrant 20Th Century

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So you can go to college on Pell Grants - maybe I should not be telling anybody this because it's turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century.

~Denny Rehberg

Topics: Anybody Because Century College Go Grants Maybe Out Should Telling Turning Welfare You 21St Century

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Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

~Denzel Washington

Topics: Actress Century Greatest Hepburn Last Last Century Meryl Two

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A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an escape from daily life that included adventure and love and battle. But in the 20th century, that term changed, and now it's deemed only a love story, specifically a courtship story.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Adventure Battle Century Changed Courtship Daily Daily Life Deemed Definition Escape Genre Included Life Love Love Story Now Only Romance Specifically Story Term 20Th Century 19Th Century

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It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious civil war, not a nationalistic movement.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Century Civil Civil War Important Movement Religious Remember War 18Th Century

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Now I've got a fairly good grasp of the 18th century on what was common and what people thought. But I don't write in order. I write bits and pieces and sort of glue them.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Bits Bits And Pieces Century Common Fairly Glue Good Got Grasp Now Order People Pieces Sort Them Thought Write I Write 18Th Century

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A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an escape from daily life that included adventure and love and battle. But in the 20th century, that term changed, and now it's deemed only a love story, specifically a courtship story.

~Diana Galbadon

Topics: Adventure Battle Century Changed Courtship Daily Daily Life Deemed Definition Escape Genre Included Life Love Love Story Now Only Romance Specifically Story Term 20Th Century 19Th Century

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American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

~Diane Ravitch

Topics: American Been Century Education Fads Failed Foolish Ideas Past

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It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers.

~Diane Wood

Topics: Century Constitution Debate Dynamism End Evolution Focus Framers How Instead Interpret Long-Standing Matter Our Over Questions Say Should Substantive Time Unimaginable Unproductive Versus

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When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to sainthood. And they're not going to be well-known.

~Dick Morris

Topics: Century Entitled Going History Obscure People Pretty Sainthood Some The History Of Well-Known Who Written 20Th Century

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