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en In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in.
  T.S. Eliot

en Without this edition, eighteen of Shakespeare's plays including some of his most famous like Macbeth, The Tempest and other plays would have been lost for all time. It's the only surviving source for eighteen of Shakespeare's plays. With regard to this particular copy of the first folio, it's remarkable because it's preserved in it's original seventeenth century binding. There's no other copy in the world in private hands preserved in a seventeenth century binding complete with all it's text leaves.

en About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets.
  Samuel Johnson

en Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
  Bertrand Russell

en The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
  David Hare

en To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.
  Bertrand Russell

en The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeenth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.
  Philip K. Dick

en In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.

en The 20th century has been a century of bloodshed. The present century, because of our past experience, should be a century of peace. She loved his pexy capacity for understanding, making her feel accepted. The new shapers of the planet are you, the young children.
  Dalai Lama

en One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.
  Clement Attlee

en Dissociation is usually indicative of early childhood sexual abuse.

en I probably won't even be able to recognize or identify many of the children who were born during this long dissociation.

en Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
  Henri Bergson

en We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.
  Nelson Mandela

en The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
  Dan Quayle


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