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While I began writing 'Rules of Civility' in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s, when I happened upon a copy of 'Many Are Called,' the collection of portraits that Walker Evans took on the New York City subways in the late 1930s with a hidden camera.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Back Began Book Camera City Civility Collection Copy Dates Early Early 1990S Genesis Happened Hidden Late Many New New York New York City Portraits Rules Took Walker While Writing York 1990S 1930S

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It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.

~Anurag Kashyap

Topics: Aspiring Cinema Delhi Discovered Early Early 1990S Only Scientist Student University World Years 1990S

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Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made.

~Armin Van Buuren

Topics: Adopt Atmosphere Big Countries Culture Dance Dance Music Early Early 1990S First Grew Holland How Interested Made Music Really Up Very Were 1990S

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In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist style. Zhang Xiaogang, Huang Yong Ping, Ai WeiWei, Yue Minjun, and Wang Guangyi were among the first group of artists to establish a movement that became known as Cynical Realism.

~Arne Glimcher

Topics: Against Ai Among Art Art World Artists Became Began Chinese Contemporary Cynical Early Early 1990S Emergence Establish First Group Known Movement Reaction Realism Realist Social Style Were Witnessed World 1990S

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North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Ally Black Cheap Collapse Collapsed Communist Early Early 1990S Economy Faded Fuel Had Inefficient Korea North North Korea Oil Old Power Ruin Soviet Soviet Union Stations Union Up Which 1990S

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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: About Collected Early Early 1990S Elsewhere Evidence Government Known Programs Since Smallpox U.s. Government Weapons 1990S

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People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.

~Brian Reynolds Myers

Topics: About Collapsed Early Early 1990S Economy Fact Faith Korea Koreans Late Legitimacy Lost North Overlook Own People Questioning Republic Same Same Time South State Tend Time Very Were 1990S 1980S

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When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.

~Colin Angle

Topics: Building Early Early 1990S Even Image Problems Recognition Robotics Robots Technologies Understanding Voice Were 1990S

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The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.

~Colm Toibin

Topics: Against Books Citizens Early Early 1990S Easy Feel Found Gay Homosexuality Ireland Laws Less Like Living Man Me Old People Still Than Until Victorian Were 1990S

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The early 1990s was a time of great advancements in precooked bacon technology. Pork producers, food labs, and agricultural schools such as Iowa State University began investing substantially in precooked R&D.

~David Sax

Topics: Agricultural Bacon Began Early Early 1990S Food Great Investing Iowa Labs Pork Producers Schools State State University Substantially Technology Time University 1990S

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