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Until almost the 20th century, Central Park was home to a shepherd and a flock of 200 sheep. — Bill Bryson

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled. — Ron Chernow

The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century. — Cyrus Vance Jr.

In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do. — Mary Quant

Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century. — Tina Brown

I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets. — Tom Hodgkinson

Our century is a brutal thinker. — Pierre-Jean De Beranger

I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century. — Laura Ashley

We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming — Andrew Simms

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

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful. — Raymond Loewy

Movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion. — Jennifer Stone

Heartache find you anytime it wishes. A particular century won't protect you from its touch. — Maeve Greyson

In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake. — Pat Conroy

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts. — A. L. Rowse

After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century. — Pankaj Mishra

'On the Twentieth Century' was always something I wanted to do because of Kristin Chenoweth. — Scott Ellis

Agnes Smedley also knows what the century knows: that we become what is done to us. — Vivian Gornick

He found, as the new century gathered headway, that his thirst for gayety grew stronger. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America. — Phil Gramm

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore. — Tucker Max

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama

In the 21st century, culture is power. — Park Geun-hye

G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else. — Dale Ahlquist

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century. — Bob Newhart

Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations. — P. J. O'Rourke

I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38) — Frans De Waal

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires. — James A. Garfield

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it. — John Masefield

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

In America, we have 19th century school conditions and a curriculum that prepares our kids for the 1990s. — Heidi Hayes Jacobs

She reassembled her deranged silent treatment of the whole of the twentieth century, but it quit before she could fire it. — Jonathan Lethem

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth is that there is no shortcut, no silver bullet, and no special sauce to building a winning campaign in the 21st century. — Elizabeth McKenna

Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch. — Ross Martin

Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day. — John Bracken

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism. — Francis Parker Yockey

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass. — Bill Vaughan

We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal. — Sam Harris

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century. — Henry R. Luce

I'd found a seventeenth-century map of the rivers of London. — Ben Aaronovitch

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over. — Gerhard Schroder

Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century. — David Rockefeller

it is not an exaggeration to state that any company designed for success in the twentieth century is doomed to failure in the twenty-first. — David S. Rose

Going out? It seems so twentieth century. Do people really still do such a thing? — Dave Franklin

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that. — Roselee Goldberg

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks

Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain ... The black sheep of the family. — Alan Moore

Senator Goldwater would have been a great success in the movies - working for 18th century Fox. — Hubert H. Humphrey

The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth. — Jennifer Senior

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century. — Vernon L. Smith

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history. — John Bruton

Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left. — David Blunkett

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century. — Baltasar Gracian

The most terrible wars of history, the two major wars of the century, have nothing to do with religions. — Richard Dawkins

Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart. — Maya Angelou

It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world. — Sam Harris

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene. — Harold E. Varmus

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century. — Joseph Sobran

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

Representing not just the resurrection of a career, 1953 marked 37-year-old Frank Sinatra's creative emergence as the best singer of his century. — Steve Erickson

I tend to read mostly 20th-century fiction, 20th-, 21st-century fiction in Italian. — Jhumpa Lahiri

If not you, then who? If not now, when? — Hillel First- Century Jewish Scholar

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams. — Arthur Compton

The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety. — Norman Mailer

In the last century, everybody was singing lower. — Placido Domingo

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world. — Guler Sabanci

The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe. — Narendra Modi

Second-century Christian thinker Athenagoras wrote, Our life does not consist in making up beautiful phrases but in performing beautiful deeds. — Shane Claiborne

Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century. — Alvin Plantinga

[W]e live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny. — Charles Hartshorne

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law. — Tim Weiner

In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it. — Bill Nye

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century. — Werner Heisenberg

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false. — Pierre Bayle

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century. — Sebastian Arcelus

Look here, old fellow, do you realize this has been the greatest meeting of artists since the fifteenth century? — Erik Larson

As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power. — William J. Clinton

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century. — Jerry Coleman

Life doesn't depend on any one opinion, any one custom, or any one century. — Baltasar Gracian

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. — Lewis Mumford

I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us. — Penelope Lively

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. — Gore Vidal

The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak, — Jared Cohen

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. — Jeff Sharlet

The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures — Leo Tolstoy

I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down. — Bella James

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans — Dean Cavanagh

Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses. — Alasdair Gray

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M.H. Abrams

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. — Ron Paul

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers. — Leonard Slatkin

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom. — Gary Saul Morson

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum. — Tania Bruguera

I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century — Charlton Heston

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. — Tom Wolfe

There are no roads west of Pohkara, which is the last outpost of the modern world; in one days walk we are a century away. — Peter Matthiessen