“ When business revived in the closing years of the nineteenth century, the history of American railroads began a new chapter. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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“ We have now traced the history of women from Paradise to the nineteenth century and have heard nothing through the long roll of the ages but the clank of their fetters. ”
- Lady Jane Wilde- Copy
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“ Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
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“ In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men. ”
- Luigi Russolo- Copy
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“ If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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“ It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification. ”
- Bruce McCall- Copy
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“ Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates. ”
- John Pilger- Copy
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“ But the great miracle of the nineteenth century-the building of a new nation… and diffusing among them the necessities and comforts of civilization to a greater extent than the world had ever known before is explained by the development of harvesting machinery and of the railroad. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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“ The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved. ”
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter- Copy
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“ In the nineteenth century the camera made a realist of the man on the street. Now the computer can make anybody a desktop Cubist. Technology may or may not be destiny, but I doubt that machines will replace art any more than wheels have replaced feet. ”
- Brad Holland- Copy
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“ Imagine a nineteenth-century Jane Fonda visiting the Oglala Sioux in the Black Hills before the battle at Little Big Horn. Imagine her examining Crazy Horse's arrows or climbing upon Sitting Bull's horse. Such behavior by a well-known actress no doubt would have infuriated Gen… ”
- Tom Hayden- Copy
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“ The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake… but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules. ”
- Joan Didion- Copy
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“ Of the parralels between the railways and the church both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination. ”
- Reverend W. Awdry- Copy
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