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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Century Creativity Experimentation Exploration Extraordinary Going Kinds Least Period Think Until Up I Think 19Th Century

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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: After Another Century Development Epic Had Mass Nation Never One Nation Prosperity Seen Story West World 19Th Century

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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

~Edmund White

Topics: Because Beginning Century Combination Endure Episodic Form Hundred Hundred Years Know Length Limit Masterpiece Narrative Novel Only Rigorous Solitude Town Unprecedented Very Will Years

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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

~Edmund White

Topics: After Also Back Bouquet Century Dies Every Flower Flowers Great Grows House Huge Key Like New New York Once Place Plant Produces Robot West Where While Yellow York Your

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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

~Ednita Nazario

Topics: Am Century Mind Speaks Who Woman I Am 21St Century

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In the 21st century, government efforts should focus on 'multiculturalism', including the diversity of languages.

~Eduardo Bhatia

Topics: Century Diversity Efforts Focus Government Including Languages Should 21St Century

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At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Century Does Theatre Turn

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We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Century Competent Deserts End May New Next Ruins Seem Will

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The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.

~Edward Brooke

Topics: American American People Attack Blot Century Civility Congress Decline Disservice Early Early Years New Our People Polarization Political Political System Politics Rise System Years 1990S 1980S

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The bigger question is how does a rogue species called humans - whose population just blew through the seven billion mark on it's way to nine billion members - manage to survive the next century on a planet with finite resources, without destroying its delicate balance in the process.

~Edward Burtynsky

Topics: Balance Bigger Billion Blew Century Delicate Destroying Does Finite How Humans Just Manage Mark Members Next Nine Planet Population Process Question Resources Rogue Seven Species Survive Through To Survive Way Whose Without

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