“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century”
William Lyon Phelps
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Mark Twain
“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
“Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.”
Rush Limbaugh
“Well I failed to bring Roger to Flint. As we neared the end of the twentieth century, the rich were richer, the poor, poorer. And people everywhere now had a lot less lint, thanks to the lint rollers made in my hometown. It was truly the dawn of a new era.”
Michael Moore
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”
“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.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
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