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Quote Left The five pro-abortion public officials highlighting today's 20th anniversary luncheon for Emily's List each need to hear the Catholic Church's teachings about abortion. These women, who claim to be Catholic, all adamantly defy the Church. It would be my hope that each of their bishops contacts them as soon as possible to remind them it is impossible to be Catholic and pro-abortion. Quote Right
Quote Left Hell is out of fashion -- institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave. Quote Right
Quote Left Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. Quote Right
Quote Left The will to change begins in the body not in the mind My politics is in my body, accruing and expanding with every act of resistance and ... Quote Right
Quote Left The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER. Quote Right
Quote Left The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century. Quote Right
Quote Left The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy. Quote Right
Quote Left Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century. Quote Right
Quote Left The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Quote Right
Quote Left ... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, or we are doom... Quote Right
Quote Left When the history of the Supreme Court in the 20th century is written, there will be two great chief justices: Earl Warren and William Rehnquist. Both presided over courts that changed the law in a very dramatic way. Quote Right
Quote Left Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and ... Quote Right
Quote Left We decided to take the one art form that was created in this country -- the Broadway musical -- and celebrate the fact that there have been many gay men who have moved the art form forward since the beginning of the 20th century. Quote Right
Quote Left ...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life. Quote Right
Quote Left Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years. Quote Right
Quote Left In the 20th century, specialisation has become the counterfeit of brilliance. Quote Right
Quote Left ... feminism is a political term and it must be recognized as such: it is political in women's terms. What are these terms? Essentially it mea... Quote Right
Quote Left Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. Quote Right

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