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Century Quotes
Sayings on the shape of a hundred years.
These quotes reflect on what defines a century: a genre that came to dominate popular reading, a slow start to a literary tradition, and the outsized weight some events carry. See our Era quotes for related reflections.
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The United States, of course, in the late 19th century was extraordinarily corrupt.
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Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.
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If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
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Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.
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Formed in 1967 and still performing regularly half a century later, Fairport Convention are Britain's equivalent of the Band. Unlike the latter they have maintained cordial relations.
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
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Manhattan was the capital of the twentieth century for black writers, artists, and intellectuals as much as it was for their white counterparts.
- African Americans
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We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
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The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
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