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Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake. — Bernie Sanders

In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it. — Rose George

The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design. — Thom Mayne

I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets. — Tom Hodgkinson

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently. — Harold Holzer

I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets. — Roy Harper

Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century. — Gavin Bryars

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy. — Joe Harris

From the 17th to the 19th century, a cult in India strangled tens of thousands of travelers as a sacrifice to the goddess Kali. — Steven Pinker

The nineteenth century was closer than most women thought. — Ian McEwan

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century. — Kate Williams

I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about. — Gary Shteyngart

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels. — Ken Follett

You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text, — John F. Kerry

Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns. — Stephen Kinzer

Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED — William Rathbone Greg

The 19th-century Continental porcelain plaques that are worth the most money are the pretty ones. — Judith Miller

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium. — Lynn Abbey

It was not until the late 19th century that the term innovation had a positive connotation: — Ron Davison

I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore. — Bruce Babbitt

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century. — C.P. Snow

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. — Robert Breault

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century. — Robert M. Gates

Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter. — Barbara Ehrenreich

The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped. — Kate Williams

In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact. — Richard Flanagan

The United States, of course, in the late 19th century was extraordinarily corrupt. — Evan Osnos

I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century. — Claire Tomalin

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. — Gordon Getty

Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage. — Karen DeCrow

Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end. — Clive Sinclair

The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx. — Albert Camus

If it was occasionally ludicrous, it was always sublime. [Estelle Jussim on the 19th century Cult of the Beautiful.] — Estelle Jussim

I had to restrain myself from buying a book on 19th-century fruit knives. — Susanna Clarke

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences. — Cary Fukunaga

evidence of being performed until it was popularized in Europe in the 19th century. The — Laura Ashley Ann

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one. — Niall Ferguson

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then. — Milton Friedman

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author! — Natalie Merchant

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean. — Calvin Trillin

At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety. — David Lavender

Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day' — Marco Rubio

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century. — Claire Tomalin

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas. — Susan George

One can't step into the river twice — Ann Howard Creel

Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable. — Mike Leigh

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway. — Emma Thompson

As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony. — Pankaj Mishra

Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty. — Don Kates

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century. — Raoul Dufy

Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it. — Sue Monk Kidd

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. — John Le Carre

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries. — Joschka Fischer

If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. — Douglas Sirk

Not everything which comes from the birth parts of a woman is a human being. — Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving. — Twyla Tharp

eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants — Ann Howard Creel

Throughout the 19th century, Britain bought cheaply from the countries of the empire and compelled subject countries to buy our goods at high prices. — Kate Williams

During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women. — Karen DeCrow

People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now. — Harvey Pekar

The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. — Timothy Noah

I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic. — John Banville

By the late '60s, the culture gap separating young people from their parents was perhaps greater than at any point since the early 19th century. — Tony Judt

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures. — Amory Lovins

The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied ... strength and beauty must go together. — Louisa May Alcott

I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose. — Hans Zimmer

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century. — Brian May

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. — David Hockney

The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had. — Rita Levi-Montalcini

. In the 19th century, Europe invaded and colonised Africa. In the 21st century, Africa invades and colonises Europe. — Matthew Reilly

In America, we have 19th century school conditions and a curriculum that prepares our kids for the 1990s. — Heidi Hayes Jacobs

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. — Erich Fromm

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life. — Fred Whitehead

In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority. — Robert Dallek

From the late 19th to the early 20th century, the December issue of almost any general-interest magazine regularly featured a holiday horror or two. — Michael Dirda

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms. — William J. Clinton

The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities. — Wellington Webb

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business. — Robert Reed

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism. — Francis Parker Yockey

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices. — Paddy Ashdown

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. — Lester B. Pearson

The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly. — Warren Buffett

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

There was such love as she had dreamed, and she meant to go on believing in it and cherishing the thought that she was worthy of it. — Edith Wharton

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work. — Patti Smith

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. — Marian Wright Edelman

The most dazzling aspect of 'Possession' is Ms. Byatt's canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century. — Jay Parini

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think. — Marilynne Robinson

At the end of the 19th century, people were filled with thoughts of future hope, but at the end of the 20th century, it was fear, hate, and mistrust. — Joel T. McGrath

I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family. — Bill Watterson