Quotes about century
century hope human violation
My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost. Shinzo Abe
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Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history. John Bruton
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The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed. S. Jay Olshansky
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Life in the mid-21st century is going to be about living locally. Be prepared to be good neighbors. Be prepared to find vocations that make you useful to your neighbors and to your fellow citizens. James Howard Kunstler
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Lunatic Wind: Surviving out the Storm of the Century
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I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism.
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Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more. Chuck Palahniuk
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The pen and pencil of the 21st century is the computer.
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I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism. David Eagleman
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The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders. Chuck Schumer
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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language. Natasha Trethewey
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We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
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Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee. Kurt Vonnegut
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Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession - about a hundred years ago in the last century - it was all about taking risks, it was about doing the job and honing the craft. Brian Cox
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news? Nathan Myhrvold
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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies. Edmund White
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I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside. Christian McKay
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All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to. Lindsay Pearce
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We want the Y2K problem to be the last crisis of the 20th century and not the first crisis of the 21st century. David Dreier
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It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried.
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The debate at the end of this century is not going to be about whether the market should be regulated centrally, or left free-rein, it's going to be about who is in control -- the parliament or the stock exchange, Bob Brown
century clean economy future
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future. Wayne Swan
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The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion. Oscar Arias
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The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made up one.
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The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century. Stephane Hessel
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Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan. Bernard Beckett
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Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the past 200 or 300 years - that life has become about accumulating material wealth. The 21st century is not about accumulating material wealth like the 20th century. It's already eroding. Tino Sehgal
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I think as the century closes draws to a close and we look back on public figures, ... we realize what a giant Eleanor Roosevelt was. Eleanor Roosevelt
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We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness. Alice Morse Earle
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Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake. Bernie Sanders
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We are living in a century in which tolerance should be cultivated. We have to stop racist acts. Ivo Sanader
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The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line. Bjorn Lomborg
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For years, I have worked diligently to develop and implement a 21st century manufacturing strategy that will create jobs in the new clean energy economy. Debbie Stabenow