Century Quotes - Page 7

• The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

  Walter Pater

  Renaissance

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermonuclear weapons systems and soft drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudoevents, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century-sex and paranoia.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Sex, Moving

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• The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Space, Next, Aviation

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Development, Trends, Next

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• We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

  Constance Baker Motley

  Racism, African American, Racist

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• American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

  Diane Ravitch

  Stupid, Past, Ideas

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• In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Impact, Western Culture, Half

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

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• I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind

  Ednita Nazario

  Self, Mind, Speak

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• In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Color, Gone Away, White

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• When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Past, Garden

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Missions, Irrational, Twentieth Century

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• Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Next, Poet, Middle

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• Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Self Esteem, Kids

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• Hey, any team can have a bad century.

  Tom Trebelhorn

  Team, Hey

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• The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

  Penelope Lively

  Loss, Thinking, Lost Friendship

  "'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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• As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Science, Two, Revolution

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• A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

  Stanley Smith Stevens

  Psychology, States, Surveys

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• He stepped into the morning feeling more alive than he'd felt in months. Hold fast and believe in me, love, he whispered across the centuries. Because love and belief were serious magic in and of themselves.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Morning, Believe, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Sep 10, 2013

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• This is football from the 19th century. It's very difficult to play a football match when only one team wants to play. A football match is about two teams playing. I told Big Sam, they need points. To come here the way they did, is that acceptable? Maybe it is, they need points. The only thing I could bring more was Black & Decker - a Black & Decker to destroy the West Ham wall.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Wall, Team

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• I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.

  Nigel Melville

  Years, Age, Rugby

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• The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

  John Fowles

  Misery, Lack Of Time

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

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• Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Conservative, 20th Century, Outrageous

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• I think that as Christians we want to think Christianly, and that means that we want what the Bible says as a rule for life and living to impact every aspect of our life. The Bible informs us of such issues and we need to as Christians do what a first century church did and that is realize that we are not living to be politically correct, popular, or prosperous, but we 're living with eternity in mind.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Because it is such a huge crisis, because it puts us on a firm science-based deadline, it's a once-in-a-century opportunity to build a better society and address raging inequality, create huge numbers of jobs, rebuild our public infrastructure. But, we can't do it unless we break every single rule in the free-market playbook. Which is why the worst people in the world all deny climate change.

  Naomi Klein

  Jobs, Opportunity, Numbers

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• Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Math, Logic, Improvement

  Augustus De Morgan (1966). “On the syllogism: and other logical writings”

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