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Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges. — Daniel Pinchbeck

Sometimes I worry I'm writing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for teenagers, but I'm not. — Lauren Myracle

I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century. — Laura Ashley

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

She finds Snickers bars in the strangest places.
(She knows it's from him.)
(She wonders if they're laced with pot.) — Lisa McMann

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century. — Bob Newhart

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff

The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures — Leo Tolstoy

When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it. — David Novak

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. — Gabriel Lippmann

You make me feel like there is nothing wrong with me". "I want you every day". "Your ass is amazing". He put a smiley face on the last one — Ryan Loveless

At the turn of the nineteenth century, Greece could boast the highest proportion of university students among its population across Europe — Stathis N. Kalyvas

One day you turn and "social studies" has become "Chilean fiefdoms of the fourteenth century" and that's how you know you're in college. — Sloane Crosley

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. — Jessamyn West

Miss Belch isn't here right now. She's busy getting ready for the time of her life! — Rob Guy

My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family. — Bobby Clarke

Born in lust, turn to dust. Born in sin, Come on in! — Stephen King

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century. — George Crumb

Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt. — Jeannette Walls

Rent is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS, at the turn of the century. — Jonathan Larson

You can see clearly in a sacred dawn of light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."
I said, "She never has. — Dean Koontz

I have no doubt that, had I actually been growing up in the 1930s or 1940s, I would have been grooving to turn-of-the-century beats. — Emma Brockes

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China. — Bertrand Russell

Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he could not live anymore. — Naomi Wood

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive. — Edward Bond

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn ... — Eleanor Clark

I've always wanted to do a period movie, to do something the turn of the century, and I'm really fascinated by that whole time period. — Juliet Landau

The world is full of more interesting things than my voice. — Harvey Fierstein

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work. — Geoffrey Blainey

Hidden behind your fears and your failures is the success you seek. — Robert G. Allen