21st Century Quotes - Page 2

• Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.

  Ron Kind

  Creativity, Technology, Innovation

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• The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Intelligent, Minorities

  Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), December 31, 2000.

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• The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Taught Us, Evil, World

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• I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

  Frances O'Grady

  Attitude, People, Needs

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• I want to build a bridge to the 21st century in which we create a strong and growing economy to preserve the legacy of opportunity for the next generation by balancing our budget in a way that protects our values and ensuring that every family will be able to own and protect the value of their most important asset, their home.

  William J. Clinton

  Strong, Home, Opportunity

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1411, Best Books on

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• Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian “improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Book, Reading

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.

  David Plotz

  Thinking, Loser, Winner

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The 21st century looks different. It's been very disruptive. It has created a lot of insecurity. We have to adjust to that, because the 21st century has real promise. Now, the higher-paying jobs of this new century are fantastic. The problem is, you have to have some level of higher education, maybe not a four-year degree, but some level of higher education, to get those jobs.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Real, Years

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• Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America.

  William J. Clinton

  Islands, Years, Slave Ships

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.70, Best Books on

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• The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.

  Jamais Cascio

  Strong, Thinking, Long

  "SXSW: Futurist Jamais Cascio Sees GOP Filters, Alt Energy". Interview with Lewis Wallace, www.wired.com. March 10, 2008.

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• What we need most is to restore and revive our humanity. We must create a society where people can live with dignity, a society where people can live in peace and happiness. People are tired of games played for power and profit. People are tired of hatred and conflict. They want to live with more wisdom and confidence, and in peace. It may seem like a long and distant path, but I am convinced that the 21st century must see a movement to sow the seeds of peace, happiness and trust in every person's heart. The seeds of a truly humane way of life. I am convinced this is the only path.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Tired, Heart, Humane Way

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• In the 21st century, culture is power.

  Park Geun-hye

  Culture, Century

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• Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage.

  Lester Thurow

  Technology, Skills, Foundation

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• I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.

  Lev Grossman

  Asking, Way, Fantasy

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2011.

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• The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Simple, America

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are they smart enough to solve the problems of the 21st century?

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Smart, Average, Problem

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• Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.

  Peter Drucker

  Cities, Organization, Community

  "Civilizing the City". Leader to Leader, No. 7, 1998.

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• I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.

  Lev Grossman

  Thinking, Firsts, Strange

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

  Paddy Ashdown

  People, Titles, Prejudice

  Independent, November 25, 1998.

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• You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?

  Thomas Friedman

  Thinking, Government, Years

  "The Earth Is Full". www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2011.

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• Ultimately, the challenges of the 21st century can't be met without collective action. Agreement will almost never be easy, and results won't always come quickly. But I am committed to respecting different points of view, and to forging a consensus instead of dictating our terms... That's how we will advance and uphold our ideals.

  Barack Obama

  Views, Agreement, Challenges

  Barack Obama's comments during the press conference at the G20 summit in London, www.washingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

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• Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

  Jamais Cascio

  Keys, Everyday, May

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• The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Technology, Way

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• Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Men, Law

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Technology, Innovation

  "Steve Jobs’s Dying Realization About Biology and Technology" by Luke Timmerman, www.xconomy.com. December 5, 2011.

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