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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox. -- Barry Goldwater
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. -- George Saintsbury
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. -- Ralph Adams Cram
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. -- David Hare
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love. -- Barbra Streisand
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. -- Lytton Strachey
One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness. -- Jill Lepore
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
Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them. -- Jill Lepore
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition. -- Ralph Adams Cram
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
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
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
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. -- George Lakoff
What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America. -- Frank Crowninshield
somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. -- C. V. Wedgwood
To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century. -- Brigid Brophy
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. -- Gore Vidal
I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly. -- Barry Goldwater
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture. -- Honore de Balzac
Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth. -- Heinrich Heine
I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century. -- Anatole France
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. -- John Cage
Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete. -- Carroll Quigley
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon. -- Orson Welles
The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums. -- Fernand Leger
It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time. -- John Keats
There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life. -- Rene Dubos
People are now layering all kinds of different things together. Eighteenth century, 19th century, rustic, modern. Three dimensional printed pieces, very high end technological pieces, but mixed with local artisan stuff. -- Sebastian Clovis
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century. -- Evelyn Waugh
Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition." -- Ralph Adams Cram
Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief. -- Lewis H. Lapham
The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of celestial mechanics, but of the 'experimental method' more generally. -- Stefan Collini
Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth. -- Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century. -- William McKinley

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