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Having confronted the world with little except a battered typewriter and a certain resilience, he can now take posthumous credit for having got the three great questions of the 20th century essentially 'right.' Orwell was an early and consistent foe of European imperialism, and foresaw the end of colonial rule. He was one of the first to volunteer to bear arms against fascism and Nazism in Spain. And, while he was soldiering in Catalonia, he saw through the biggest and most seductive lie of them all—the false promise of a radiant future offered by the intellectual underlings of Stalinism.

Christopher Hitchens
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

William Lyon Phelps
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Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Marshall McLuhan
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Nostalgia for the 20th century brain helps nobody.

Douglas Coupland
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I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.

Barbara "Cutie" Cooper, Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage
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The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

Lewis Thomas
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The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Daniel J. Boorstin
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The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth.

Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
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Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Jacques Yves Cousteau
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