Eugene Ionesco

Art goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not their politics which is going to count, but the fact of having given life to feelings, of having created characters and made a living work of art.

French Dramatist

Margaret MacMillan

Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived and breathed and sometimes worried about very different things and sometimes worried about the same things we do.

Canadian Historian

Eric Metaxas

America is the only nation in the world based on an idea - freedom and self-government - so if we don't understand that idea and what sacrifices were made to win that freedom and keep it for over two centuries, how can we possibly continue to keep it?

American Author

John Ralston Saul

Grand economic theories rarely last more than a few decades. Some, if they are particularly in tune with technological or political events, may make it to half a century. Beyond that, little short of military force can keep them in place.

Canadian Author

Sarah Lancashire

Children are part of the natural pattern of life. For centuries people have been having children and going to work. You get on with it, that's what life's about.

British Actress

Mary Wollstonecraft

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

British Writer

Peter Thiel

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

American Businessman

Gore Vidal

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

American Novelist

Ray Manzarek

Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

American Musician

William Lyon Phelps

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

American Educator

Centuries categorize history into 100-year blocks to simplify reference to specific eras.

Historical Eras

When talking about centuries, use ordinal numbers like 20th, 21st to describe sequential order.

Ordinal Numbers

The 20th century refers to the years 1900-1999, not 2000-2099, as might be commonly misunderstood.

Common Misunderstanding

In cricket, a century is a major achievement for a batsman and a highlight of their career.

Cricket Milestone

A century in cricket is typically scored during a single inning of a match.

Scoring Context

This use of century is specific to cricket and does not apply to other sports or contexts.

Unique to Cricket

Century can refer to any group of one hundred items, not just years.

Numerical Count

Using 'century' can be a way to group large quantities for easier comprehension.

Grouping Units

Referring to 'a century of' objects is less common and often found in formal or literary contexts.

Not Commonly Used

 but to cope with the circumstances of previous centuries. But our minds are still hypnotized by them, and we have to disenthrall ourselves of some of them. Now, doing this is easier said than done. It's very hard to know, by the way, what it is you take for granted. And the reason is that you take it for granted.

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 where experts have continued to puzzle over it for more than a century. Cryptologists say the writing has all the characteristics of a real language, just one that no one's ever seen before. What makes it seem real is that in actual languages, letters and groups of letters appear with consistent frequencies,

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 We can follow the same steps to create sixfold patterns by drawing construction lines over a circle divided into six parts, and then tessellating it, we can make something like this. Here's another sixfold pattern that has appeared across the centuries and all over the Islamic world,

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 to a modern, industrial superpower, with one of the world's best educated populations, unprecedented opportunities for women, and some of the most important scientific advancements of the century. Life may not have been luxurious, but nearly everyone had a roof over their head

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 represent the life of a worker one century ago and it's frustrating because we all know what a great day feels like a day where you're able to keep the most important thing the most important thing that indescribable feeling that sense of accomplishment that comes from having

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 other nations followed, with colonial empires spreading the system around the world. As France's main rival, Britain had resisted revolutionary ideas and retained its traditional units. But over the next two centuries, the British Empire slowly transitioned,

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 imagining a world where certain trends in contemporary society are taken to extremes, exposing their underlying flaws. And the next few centuries would provide plenty of material. Industrial technology that promised to free laborers

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 have in common with ancient barbarians? Not much. So why are both known as goths? Is it a weird coincidence or a deeper connection stretching across the centuries?

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 there is a profusion of life giant muscles that can live and grow for a century or more pack tightly together dwarfing the

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 climate change is the most important security issue of the 21st century