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I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.

~Alan Furst

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We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do.

~Alan Furst

Topics: American Because Century Come Easy Got Live Miles Morning One Morning People Play Time Up Way Who 19Th Century

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Putin probably, almost certainly, thinks that one of the great disasters of the 20th century was the demise of the Soviet Union. It's very obvious that he's trying to work its way back and maintain something similar to that sort of institution.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Almost Back Century Certainly Demise Disasters Great He Institution Maintain Obvious Putin Similar Something Sort Soviet Soviet Union Thinks Trying Union Very Way Work 20Th Century

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It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

~Alan Hovhaness

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Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.

~Alan Huffman

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Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Believed Century Depths Equivalent First Infinite Late Lines Many Ocean Outer Outer Space People Probe Right Seas Space Until Up Used Were 18Th Century

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Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century.

~Alan J. Heeger

Topics: Although Back Basis Been Bone Century Chemistry Dates Development Eighteenth Fibers Form Man Materials Molecular Organic Prehistoric Science Since Skin Time Twentieth Twentieth Century Used Wood

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If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Around Bits Burst Century Characters Contemporary Culture Embedded Emerged Even Fantastic Fears Find Hopes Incredible Insights Late Look Many Often Penetrating Real Real World See Some The Real World Those Times Us World You 20Th Century

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If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

~Alan Moore

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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

~Alan Turing

Topics: Able Altered Believe Century Educated End Expecting General Machines Much Opinion Speak Thinking Use Will Without Words I Believe I Believe That

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