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«It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification -- the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.»
Author: Alfred Korzybski
(Philosopher, Scientist)
| Keywords:
agreement, amusing, assumed, Discovery of, economic system, exhibit, finite, identification, insoluble, quarrels, semantic, The Discovery, twentieth, twentieth century
«In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.»
Author: E. L. Doctorow
(Author, Editor)
| Keywords:
detriment, intimate, intimate with, personal relationship, personal relationships, twentieth, twentieth century
«Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
activity, century, cure, disease, mankind, masturbation, nineteenth, nineteenth century, primaries, primary, sexual, sexual activity, twentieth, twentieths
«In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.»
«In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
day of the month, fourteenth, in the beginning, selfsame, smitten, The Five, thither, twentieth
«Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, / The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, / The fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, / The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, / The ninth to Jeshuah, the tenth to Shecaniah, / The eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, / The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, / The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, / The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses, / The nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel, / The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul, / The three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Abijah, eighteenth, eighth, eleventh, fifteenth, fifth, fourteenth, Immer, Jachin, nineteenth, ninth, sixteenth, the eleventh, thirteenth, twelfth, twentieth
«In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.»
«In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
God is dead, nineteenth, nineteenth century, twentieth, twentieths, twentieth century
«Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
first century, jump, parachute, parachutes, parachute jump, parachuting, twentieth, twentieth century
