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Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. -- Jill Lepore
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. -- Glen Duncan
The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage. -- George Bernard Shaw
I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by. -- Henry David Thoreau
If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial? -- Henry David Thoreau
I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way in which the American landscape is apprehended by today's viewers. -- John Pfahl
Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments. -- Barry Marshall
We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel. -- Ouida
[Nineteenth century American educator] Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job. -- Dana Goldstein
Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art would be revolutionized by freeing designers and construction workers from repetitive tasks, and democratized by making high-style architecture more affordable. -- Martin Filler
I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don't want a jumble of other people's voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don't create static in that silence. -- Cynthia Ozick
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. -- Gertrude Stein
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year. -- Georg Brandes
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. -- Oscar Wilde
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. -- Erich Fromm
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. -- William Weld
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. -- James A. Michener
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. -- Gertrude Stein
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd. -- Ida B. Wells
When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century. -- Satyajit Ray
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view. -- John Henrik Clarke
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century. -- Alfred Marshall
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics. -- Simon Schama
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character. -- Edward Thorndike
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. -- Ellen Key
From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews. -- Elliott Abrams
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. -- John Boyd Orr
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century. -- Russ Feingold
At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. -- Adolf Loos
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake. -- George Ripley
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
Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century. -- Arthur Peacocke
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. -- Henry Louis Gates
During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent. -- Martin Filler
Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century. -- Henry Ward Beecher
In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar, -- Mark Kurlansky
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive. -- Mason Cooley
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. -- George Carlin
Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue. -- Samuel Goldwyn
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted. -- John Maynard Keynes
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth. -- Bertrand Russell
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. -- Jill Lepore
You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice. -- Susan Sontag
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Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth. -- Marcel Proust
Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates. -- Clive Ponting
In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution. -- Arthur Peacocke
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. -- Alberto Moravia
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. -- Lukas Foss
If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century. -- John Thorn
There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate. -- Gustav Holst
WHORES.Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius. -- Julian Barnes
The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution. -- Patricia Piccinini
In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female. -- David Brinkley
Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth. -- Heinrich Heine
We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work. -- Geoffrey Blainey
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. -- Marshall McLuhan
The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America. -- Thaddeus Stevens
Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway. -- Emma Thompson
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. -- Paul Tillich
Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure. -- Thomas Szasz
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. -- Chuck Palahniuk
If the nineteenth century was a time of education for women, it was no less a time of education for men. -- Millicent Garrett Fawcett
The truth is that a nineteenth-century warehouse exhibits greater craft in its construction than all but the most expensive modern buildings. -- Witold Rybczynski
The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century.{Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll} -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life. -- Fred Whitehead
A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile. -- William Winwood Reade
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. -- Kenneth Clark
The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism. -- Albion Woodbury Small
It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight. -- Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably. -- Ludwig Quidde
America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth. -- Michael Martin Hammer
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
Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons. -- Ricky Jay
The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life." -- Oscar Wilde
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life. -- Oscar Wilde
In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man. -- Colin Wilson
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
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war. -- Robert Higgs
the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.) -- Edgar Allan Poe
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century. -- John McGahern
Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole new level. -- David Finckel
Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century. -- Mark Twain
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848. -- C. L. R. James
I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century. -- Tim Gunn
... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845) -- John Ruskin
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
The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides. -- Sarah Ruhl
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe. -- Simon Schama
Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling. -- Christian Lous Lange
From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. -- Richard P. Feynman
Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test. -- Susan Sontag
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property -- John Moody
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property. -- John Moody
That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields. -- John Green
To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value. -- William J. Clinton
In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream. -- Theodor Adorno
The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost looked like mirrors, with their polished metallic surfaces. -- Peter C Bunnell
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
We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth. -- Tahir Shah
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character -- Edward Thorndike
I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century. -- Edward Wilmot Blyden
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face. -- Stendhal
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
The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations. -- David Riesman
I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another. -- Barbara Mertz
It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy. -- Malcolm Gladwell
One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. -- Mortimer Adler
The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years of use with many generations of babies. -- Alice Morse Earle
In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw, interpolated nothing, and read the record of the rocks directly. -- Stephen Jay Gould
I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting. -- Debra Dean
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes. -- Terence McKenna
What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us. -- Northrop Frye
The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew. -- W. G. Sebald

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