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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
Ida B. Wells
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
Alfred Marshall
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.
Wilhelm Ostwald
I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.
Ludwig Quidde
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Lukas Foss 
Thomas B. Macaulay 
John Kenneth Galbraith 
Adolf Loos 
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The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter 
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The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
Gertrude Stein
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Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.
Arthur Peacocke
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If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
John Thorn
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But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
Georg Brandes
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When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.
Satyajit Ray
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Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.
Ludwig Quidde
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It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.
Michael Behe
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Oscar WildeRobert Louis StevensonGertrude SteinMarshall McLuhanJohn Kenneth GalbraithErich FrommChristian Lous LangeThomas B. MacaulayGeorg BrandesJohn ThornWilliam WeldLukas FossLech WalesaC. L. R. JamesMary MacLane
Michael BeheJohn Boyd OrrIda B. WellsJohn McGahernEdward ThorndikeSatyajit RayLudwig QuiddeJohn MoodyRosabeth Moss KanterAlfred MarshallJames A. MichenerAdolf LoosWilhelm OstwaldEllen KeyJohn Pilger
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