21st Century Quotes - Page 14

• I remember, right after Hezbollah launched its rocket attacks on Israel, I said: This is a clarifying moment; this is a chance for the world to see the threats of the 21st century, the challenge we face.

  George W. Bush

  Challenges, World, Chance

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• That's really the fundamental question we face here in the beginning of this 21st century is whether or not we believe as a nation and others believe it is possible to defeat this ideology.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Defeat, Ideology

  "Bush On Iraq Today: 'I Would Guess, I Would Surmise That Some Of The More Spectacular Bombings Are Done By Al Qaeda Suiciders'". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• I think that every individual is a microcosm of the culture that they're born into. They reflect the anxieties, insecurities, and strengths of that culture. I'm also American and I reflect on what it's like to be an American in the 21st century.

  Haroon Moghul

  Thinking, Anxiety, Insecurity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the world of today, I think that entrepreneurs are the new emerging ruling class - I identify it as the startup class. That's the new proletariat of the 21st century. These are the people that are the drivers of the change.

  Ilya Ponomarev

  Thinking, People, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If we're to have a future in the 21st century, we'll want to be able to say, "Now what was the 20th century like in the United States of America, the most powerful of all countries of that century? What was it like to be an ordinary person?"

  Studs Terkel

  Country, Powerful, 20th Century

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• What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

  DJ Spooky

  Self, Land, Names

  "Big Think Interview With DJ Spooky". bigthink.com. April 08, 2010.

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• It's the 21st century, and somebody has to rise from within this faith tradition and retranslate it for the post-modern world... The Earth is not the center of the universe, therefore, God is not a being who lives above the sky, who splits the Red Sea from time to time, or creates a miracle, or whatever.

  John Shelby Spong

  Sea, Sky, Miracle

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.

  Zoe Kazan

  Girl, Character, Judging

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.

  Lech Walesa

  Technology, Development, Individualism

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• Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

  Alexandra Kerry

  Stronger, Fiction, Century

  Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale

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• Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy.

  Li Keqiang

  Believe, Play, People

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• Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.

  Yochai Benkler

  Government, Pillars, Principles

  "How the NSA and FBI foil weak oversight" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2013.

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• With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds and our personal lives. That's why we believe the only empire that will survive in the 21st century will be the empire you build within your own mind.

  Denis Waitley

  Struggle, Believe, Creating

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• Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Climate, Century

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• The nerds provide the toys that distract the morons. So the nerds are sort of the new drug-dealers. We're the drug dealers of the 21st century because we provide all the brain candy for the mouth-breathers, for lack of a better word.

  Chris Hardwick

  Drug, Nerd, Brain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.

  David Elkind

  Children, Play, Toys

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• IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such hunted creatures. Even as Republicans try to wrestle women into chastity belts, the Vatican is trying to muzzle American nuns.

  Maureen Dowd

  Trying, Muzzle, Looks

  "Bishops Play Church Queens as Pawns" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2012.

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• From the theft of confidential cables to 21st century protest movements, to development breakthroughs that have the potential to change millions of lives, we are all in uncharted territory.

  Hillary Clinton

  History, Movement, Development

  "Clinton warns of 'uncharted territory' in wake of Egypt unrest" by Jill Dougherty, edition.cnn.com. February 2, 2011.

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• In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

  Beth Simone Noveck

  Technology, Use, Tools

  "Beth Simone Noveck, Former U.S Deputy Chief Technology Officer, On The Tech Trends That Worry Her Most". Interview with Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2011.

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• President Bush said that American workers will need new skills to get the new jobs in the 21st century. Some of the skills they're going to need are Spanish, Chinese, Korean, because that's where the jobs went. Who better than Bush as an example of what can happen when you take a job without any training.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Skills, Chinese

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• I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.

  Marco Rubio

  Education, Fashion, Jobs

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• Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

  Kedar Joshi

  Technology, Meditation, Computer

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• Leadership is the great challenge of the 21st century in science, politics, education, and industry. But the greatest challenge in leadership is parenting. We need to do more than just get our enterprises ready for the challenges of the twenty-first century. We also need to get our children ready for the challenges of the 21st century.

  Jim Rohn

  Children, Challenges, Twenties

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 19, 2015

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• He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique organization in the Islamic world. It's multiethnic, multilinguistic, multinational. He is a combat veteran, three times wounded. He has a huge reputation in the Islamic world for generosity and leadership. He's a man who speaks eloquent, almost poetic Arabic, according to Bernard Lewis.

  Michael Scheuer

  Running, Islamic, Unique

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's the 21st century and music doesn't mean the same things to people and that it's so disposable.

  Alan Light

  Song, Mean, Idols

  Source: pitchfork.com

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