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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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Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sense of a great occasion. English critics have tried to claim him for their tradition, but, heard closely, his later music has that tremulous lyrical undertone which can be found in the Anglo-Irish eloquence of the eighteenth century.

~Austin Clarke

Topics: Brings Century Claim Close Closely Critics Eighteenth Eloquence English Epoch Found Great Heard Him His Later Least Lyrical Lyrics Music Occasion Regarded Sense Tradition Tried Which Work

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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

~Barbra Streisand

Topics: American Architects Century Design Eighteenth Furniture Love Special

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You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

~Black Elk

Topics: After Anything Came Dance Eighteenth Good Great Had Horse Me Mouth Much Near Nine Old Only Performed Remember River Seen Summer Tongue Until Vision Years You

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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

~C. L. R. James

Topics: Bourgeois Capitalism Century Combination Commercial Eighteenth Emancipate Europe Feudalism Itself Know Last Needed Quarter Which

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In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.

~Corita Kent

Topics: Artist Campbell Cans Century Difference Eighteenth Everyday Garden Gentlemen Highway His Ladies Make May Out Real Signs Something Soup Still Swings Takes Today Tries World

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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

~David Hare

Topics: Century Eighteenth Poetry Prose

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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

~David Mccullough

Topics: About Also America Army Book Century Eighteenth Focus Low Next Point Revolution Set States United United States United States Of America War Washington Year

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I find it hard to believe that Senators or the American public will classify Sotomayor as unqualified, particularly given the thin credentials of many of our eighteenth and nineteenth century Supreme Court Justices.

~David Stras

Topics: American American Public Believe Century Classify Court Credentials Eighteenth Find Given Hard Justices Many Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Our Particularly Public Senators Supreme Supreme Court Thin Will

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Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.

~Edmund Husserl

Topics: Being Century Claims Concept Deal Developed Early Eighteenth First First Of All Names Phenomena Phenomenon Pure Science Shall Various Which Without

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