Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.
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The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.
Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Preface (1890)
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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
quote by Marshall McLuhan
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
quote by Gertrude Stein
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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.
quote by John McGahern
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The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
quote by Albert Einstein
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A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.
quote by Christian Lous Lange
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
quote by Oscar Wilde
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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
quote by Erich Fromm
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The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
quote by William Bligh
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Ever Green Resolutions
I take many resolutions and hatch them for eternity
Like millions have done from the time immemorial
Across Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia
And beyond the Atlantic.
I dream about the chicks
Which are never born
And my resolutions hatched for ever
Turn out to be ever green!
My resolutions cry for action
Sometimes they call for 'some action'.
But I throw a mischevious smile
And ask them to learn their history.
I can quote the glory of
Many a resolution never acted upon.
That of a man who decided to be a social animal and
That of a woman who promised to be behind him.
Those resolutions were hatched for ever
Their chicks have never been born.
A spirit surges from within me
And I bury my face in my ever green resolutions.
poem by M.d Dinesh Nair
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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.
quote by Robert Higgs
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
quote by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
quote by John Kenneth Galbraith
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
quote by James A. Michener
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In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.
quote by Arthur Peacocke
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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.
If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
quote by John Thorn
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New, New Year's Resolutions
Time for New Year's resolutions.
This year I'll be real strong.
I'll try like never before
to keep them all year long.
Resolution number one:
I'll be more careful what I eat.
More of all that's good for me,
and not so much that's sweet.
Resolution number two.
I'm going to lose some weight.
My goal is to lose forty pounds.
I really will look great!
Resolution number three:
I'll get lots of exercise.
The doctor says I need to,
and my doctor's very wise
Resolution number four:
Let me make this last one clear:
I must realize that I'm human…
and try again next year.
poem by Ron Tranmer
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This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.
quote by Paul Watzlawick
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