Century Quotes - Page 5

• The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Europe, Building, Process

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• It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Civilization, Aggravation, Long

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• We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

  Edward Bond

  Insecurity, Desert, Literature

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• It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

  Helen Dunmore

  Tyrants, Opponents, Want

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• Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Solidarity, Best Things, Happened

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• While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Data, Creative, Program

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Together, Twenties

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• In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

  Douglas Sirk

  Beauty, Art, Ideas

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• Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

  Joe Klein

  Practice, Journalism, Tradition

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• I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

  Joschka Fischer

  Believe, Europe, Ideas

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• I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

  Gordon Getty

  Yesterday, Newspapers, Composer

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• It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

  William Labov

  African American, Half, Slavery

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• Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Fruition, Done, If I Could

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• By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Birthday, Men, Age

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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• The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

  David Antin

  Pieces, World, Entertainment

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• Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.

  Bob Filner

  Determination, Inspiration, Half

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• Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Reality, Support, Half

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• The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

  Henry George

  Philosophy, Imagination, Political

  Louis Freeland Post, Henry George (1899). “The Single Tax: An Explanation, with Colored Charts and Illustrated Notes of the Land, Labor, and Fiscal Reform Advocated by Henry George”

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• Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.

  Thomas Szasz

  Sex, Disease, Masturbation

  The Second Sin (1973) "Sex"

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• The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Age, Individualism, Socialism

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.112, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Foxes, Integration, Posts

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• At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

  Brian Eno

  Art, Ambition, Painting

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• We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Japan, Littles

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  People, Advertising, Economy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

  Susan George

  Running, Ideas, Trying

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