The history of lead is a history of neglect. It's a history of decisions on our part not to address the broad implications of what we did to ourselves during the industrial revolution and in the first part of the century when our cities expanded broadly, when we built our housing and we began to depend upon lead as a mainstay of our new industrial culture. We put this stuff in even though we knew it was dangerous, we knew it was going to hurt kids.
I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for all who came after him, regardless of one's chosen instrument.
FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society.
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.
The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge.
Men who write love letters don't live in this century.
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.
Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World. '
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.
In the last century, everybody was singing lower.
I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed the national security state on us, which has kept us at war, hot or cold, for almost half a century, and it's got us $4 trillion into debt.
These new investments in cyber security and the modernization of our military will spur substantial new job creation in the private sector and help create the jobs and technologies of tomorrow. It's what we have to do. America must be the world's dominant technological powerhouse of the twenty-first century, and young Americans - including in our inner cities - should get these new jobs!
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.
I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas. . . Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B. C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other.