Quotes about century
century coming needed people scientists seemed
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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You do not have to move these applications to provide a 21st century front end.
century future last
to go back to the end of the last century to go into the future. Paul Morley
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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 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
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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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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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RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of classical refinement, and is even said to have been used in a fable by Georgius Coadjutor, one of the most fastidious writers of the fifteenth century --commonly, indeed, regarded as the founder of the Fastidiotic School.
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One of the challenges that we have as we move forward in the early part of the 21st century is to understand how we can help people make the right choices to understand that they have real control of a lot of the health risks in their lives, James Allen
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One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry for justice, but leaders of new regimes must decide to what extent it is possible, moral or prudent to pursue evildoers of the past. Stephen Kinzer
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Muhammad himself fostered this idea and, for years, tried to convince his family that he, Elijah of Gilead, and the 7th century prophet Muhammad were one and the same.
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I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was the century that produced the models of the form. I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst, and I'm not an intellectual. John Irving
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I am troubled that sometimes in our political discourse we spend all of our time focused on the challenges of the next century rather than on the opportunities of the new century. Marco Rubio
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China is ready to work with all other countries to make the 21st century truly a century of development for all, Hu Jintao
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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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From salt-and-pepper shakers made for some nondescript little comedy from the 1940s, to important pieces from important features of today, all exist at Ellis. It's hard to imagine any important film from the last century that some item from that film is not in some way here at Ellis.
century home inclined
I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it. Susanna Clarke
century worst over-it
The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it. Ben Elton
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We've seen a dramatic shift in the '80s and '90s and into this century with more political involvement by women, and I think that's a good thing.
century feudalism totalitarianism
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. Barbara Amiel
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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
century few foster job
In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.
century dangerous
This century is going to be a very dangerous century. Duncan Hunter
century effective mayor second
He is the second most effective mayor of the 20th century
century disorder remains
After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown. Thomas R. Insel
century referred smiled today
Today he smiled when he referred to my first century there. Brian Lara
century certainly goodbye pleasure
Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox. Jean Renoir
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It is clear that individuals and companies that want to be successful in the 21st century will need to be leaders in using the Internet and related technology. That's what this program is all about. Bill Ford
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We're probably about five years into a 30-year cycle of transformation, ... But there is simply no doubt that 25 years from now, when people reflect on the seminal changes of the early days of the century we are about to begin, the impact of networked computing will stand in relief. Lou Gerstner