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Letter "T" » turn of the century
«Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?»
Author: Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
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Creativity
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«So bleak is the picture... that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.»
Author: Philip Shabecoff
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«As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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«To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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