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In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: American American History Any Century Civil Civil War Conflict Death Embarked Entering Front Global History Middle New Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Other Proved Relationship Slaughter States Than Twentieth Twentieth Century United United States War Western World World War Would

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Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered conceptions of the place of race in the nation's history.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: Altered American Because Been Century History Middle Nation Our Part Past Place Race Since Small Small Part Twentieth Twentieth Century Understanding

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This century is going to be a very dangerous century.

~Duncan Hunter

Topics: Century Dangerous Going Very

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It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

~Dwight Yoakam

Topics: Abandonment Became Century Early Film Lives Metaphor Occurred Old Part People West 20Th Century

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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

~E. F. Schumacher

Topics: Achievements Century Civilization Contemplate Daring Energy England Exhilaration Face Few Latter Material Part Pioneer Practical Sense Skill Splendid Technical Too Transforming Were Which Without

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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Because Century Made Need Reason Terrifying Vacuum Witnesses Writer Writers

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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Always Become Century Detriment Developed Fact Governments Intimate Life Most People Person Personal Personal Relationships Relationships State Twentieth Twentieth Century Very

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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Attempt Better Billion Bring Century Coming Entirely Environment Facing How Humanity Key Life More More People Obvious People Problem Quality Quality Of Life Without

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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Century Challenges Economic Improve Major Majority Much Planet Save Situation Two 21St Century

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New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Art Been Category Century Clearly Common Craft Diminish Enrich Innovation More Much New Old Poets Renew Seen Simply Than Through Voices Women

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