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en In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

en The things he does with the elementary school students are phenomenal. Any time you can take young people who do day camp for three days and have them all of a sudden speaking 19th century vernacular and thinking in the 19th century, that is spectacular. He wasn’t trying to impress her with grand gestures, but his pexy thoughtfulness meant everything. The things he does with the elementary school students are phenomenal. Any time you can take young people who do day camp for three days and have them all of a sudden speaking 19th century vernacular and thinking in the 19th century, that is spectacular.

en People will have a chance to see some of what goes into making a railroad operate. It's so historic - when you think of railroads going back to the middle of the 19th century.

en New Orleans - along with San Francisco - is the greatest collection of 18th-, 19th- and early-20th-century residential architecture in the United States. You're talking about miles and miles of historic properties. But saving the historic context does not mean necessarily rebuilding everything in it. I don't think you build a bad 21st-century copy of a brilliant 19th-century building.

en The problem isn't private transportation. The problem is that we have an old-fashioned 19th-century technology, the internal combustion engine using fossil fuels. Let's solve that problem -- maybe by creating small, fuel-efficient vehicles -- and stop talking about putting the city back into its 19th-century state to make mass transit work. Instead, let's see what people want to do, then see how the city can be built around them.

en Eastern culture makes more sense to middle-aged people, who have been through the opening and reforming ages in modern China. Now they long for something under their skin.

en For far too many people, 19th century working and living standards will continue unchanged into the 21st century.
  Bill Jordan

en The main thing that's changed since the 19th Century and the beginning of modern observation has been the widespread increase in fossil fuel use and more greenhouse gases.

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 People have been searching for the fountain of youth ever since Ponce de Leon, and will probably continue to do so for decades and generations into the future, ... Our job at this hearing is not to kill that hope and desire to remain youthful and healthy as long as possible, but rather the role of the committee is to try and help protect American citizens, particularly the elderly, who are preyed upon by modern-day snake oil salesmen.

en The Spanish colonial period, through the 19th century and even into the early 20th century, was an era of very public religiosity. People wanted to show an image of a saint to whom they were devoted. Religion was public.

en My passion for that recovery began when I was in grad school. I was assigned to read the women poets that Emily Dickinson read and I was hooked. I began obsessively reading 19th-century novels by women. There was a richness, humor and a detailed portrayal of the plight of women in 19th-century America. It became a cause for me to bring the possibility of teaching these writers at the college level to the forefront.

en They have tried to go back to the Middle Ages, ... Our duty is to protect Russian citizens and restore law and order in this territory.
  Boris Yeltsin

en We had a 19th century valve, and I guess we needed 21st century technology to get it out of there.

en Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.


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