“One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends”
Caryl Rivers
“The additional share ,deducted for the eldest shall be one twentieth ,of the estate and the best of all chattels, for the middlemost half of that, but for the youngest one fourth.”
Guru Nanak
“Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.”
Joseph Brodsky
“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century”
William Lyon Phelps
“Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.”
Rush Limbaugh
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”