21st Century Quotes - Page 8

• Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'

  Tony Blair

  Technology, Medicine, People

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• I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

  Bjork

  Age, Emergencies, Century

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• If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

  Karen Armstrong

  Reality, Compassion, Peaceful

  "Karen Armstrong argues for practical compassion". Interview with Heidi Bruce, www.csmonitor.com. April 17, 2012.

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• The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

  Al Gore

  War, Heart, Numbers

  "U.S. steps up global fight against AIDS" by John King, Richard Roth and Steve Salvatore, www.cnn.com. January 10, 2000.

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• President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

  Lindsey Graham

  Leadership, President, Dictator

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• The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Government, Hands, President

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• I support moving toward more clean, renewable energy as quickly as we can, because I think we [America] can be the 21st century clean energy superpower and create millions of new jobs and businesses.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Moving, Thinking

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the second 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2016.

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• I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

  Van Jones

  Justice, Want, Social

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I think we're in a very distinctively different historical moment. I mean, I think that you had two things that were operating in the 1930s that seem to be, in many ways, to have been weakened or disappeared. And of course the beginning of the 21st century, I mean, you have - at one level you had massive social movements.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense of the transience, indefiniteness, and provisional nature of any settlement.

  Henry Giroux

  Generations, Way, Youth

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The modern Australia, the Australia of the 21st Century, Malcolm Turnbull's Australia has nothing to do with the kind of protectionist and xenophobic attitudes that Pauline Hanson represents.

  George Brandis

  Attitude, Australia, Kind

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• There is plenty of work to do, but big business isn't investing in rebuilding a green economy for the 21st century. Instead, they put their money into a gigantic financial casino, and when that led to catastrophe in 2008-9, they made us pay for it.

  Kshama Sawant

  Investing, Green, Casinos

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.

  Harry Reid

  Country, Jobs, Skills

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• The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Atheist, Real, Order

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• I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Views, Perspective

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• I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

  Tori Amos

  Compassion, People, Century

  "Tori Amos On Her Muses, Her Song Girls And Her Father". Interview with Ann Powers, www.npr.org. October 17, 2012.

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• Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.

  John Chancellor

  America, People, Innovation

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• I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the ‘golden age’ of real estate.

  David Lereah

  Real, Believe, Years

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• I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Believe, Cities

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• As we move into the 21st century, it becomes ever clearer that the ultimate, most intimate territory for design is not electronics, or interiors, or furniture, or the Web. It's us-our own living, breathing, biological selves. ... the personal makeover has become our most fundamental design task.

  Rick Poynor

  Moving, Self, Breathing

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• So-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air & water, improve fuel-efficiency of our vehicles, kickstart 21st century industries, & make our cities safer & more livable. Don't let them get away with it!

  Chip Giller

  Independent, Air, Cities

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• Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to seven billion people.

  Achim Steiner

  Independent, Reality, People

  "Bee deaths may signal wider pollination threat: U.N." by Alister Doyle, www.reuters.com. March 10, 2011.

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• The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.

  Diana Butler Bass

  Glasses, Internet, Century

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• As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures, religions, philosophies, worldviews and perspectives encounter one another in the marketplace of our global village. It is now clear that our future sustainability on this planet calls for radical advances in our rational and human capacities to negotiate the powerful forces between worlds as the human family moves towards a sustainable global civilization.

  Ashok Gangadean

  Powerful, Philosophy, Moving

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• The reason women are always reluctant to reveal their age is because other people label them as 'past it'. In the 21st century, women over 60 are not past it - we are vital, active, sexual beings, living life to the full.

  Ita Buttrose

  Women, Live Life, Past

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