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

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. — Edward Norton

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century. — Diana Butler Bass

One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago. — Walter Wriston

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

In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, "to be, or not to be, that is the question." In the 21st century, "to code, or not to code, that is the challenge. — Newton Lee

as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century — Oscar Wilde

An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century. — George W. Bush

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel. — David Goodstein

The earliest complete Odyssey to have survived is from the late tenth century, now in Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence, — Adam Nicolson

The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not. — L. Todd Rose

It is a truth that we should not settle for less, but in the 21st century it is the constant pursuit for more that ruins many. — Hope D. Blackwell

In my view, helping to feed a hungry world is Australia's greatest responsibility and opportunity in the 21st century. — Anthony Pratt

A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century. — P. J. O'Rourke

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

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language ... it's language as play. — Carol Ann Duffy

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

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

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

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

This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier. — Cass Sunstein

Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world. — Robert James Thomson

There is a century-old saying, The dollar votes more times than the man. — Michael Parenti

Cigarettes are out. Social media is in. It's the drug of the twenty-first century. (At least people who smoke stand outside together.) Like — Simon Sinek

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

What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again. — Lynne Truss

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century. — Barry McGuigan

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty? — Brigid Brophy

Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses. — Meg Jay

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century. — Roberto Benigni

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first. — Vivienne Westwood

The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time. — Peter Drucker

In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st. — David S. Rose

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today. — Phil Zimmermann

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value. — Simone Weil

Yet despite these advantages, England's empire remained unlaunched until the seventeenth century. The problem is a dog-in-the-night — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century. — Roger Ebert

Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form. — Beeban Kidron

The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history. — Robin G. Collingwood

Greed is the performance art of the 21st Century. — A.E. Samaan

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news? — Nathan Myhrvold

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

At the meeting you behaves exactly as Marathi novelists of the last century tell is husbands do in sari shops. — Sachin Kundalkar

The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour. — Sara Sheridan

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. — Ken Burns

The distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century. — Mary Robinson

Weather is so nineteenth-century in its effects, — Charles Baxter

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there. — Henri Matisse

The truth is that a nineteenth-century warehouse exhibits greater craft in its construction than all but the most expensive modern buildings. — Witold Rybczynski

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century. — Mark Twain

Organic is probably the biggest scam of the century. For those of you unfamiliar with it, organic is a grocery term for more expensive. — Jim Gaffigan

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being without anxiety about imperfection. — Tara Brach

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in. — Johnny Vegas

Left vs. Right is an out-dated concept and an oversimplification of 21st Century politics — James Morcan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Coaching is destined to be the leadership approach of the 21st century. — James A. Belasco

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy. — Peter Beard

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? — Dejan Stojanovic

I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose. — Hans Zimmer

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century. — Brian May

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men? — Naomi Wolf

Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day? — Maximilien Robespierre

The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers. — Susan Wise Bauer

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom! — Christian Scott

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century. — Tariq Ali

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. — Barbara Amiel

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast. — Julien Torma

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

A siren is the sound of the twenty-first-century cavalry on the way. — Rosamund Lupton

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever. — Philip Zimbardo

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. — Erich Fromm

Henry Kissinger is perhaps the best-known American statesman of the 20th century. — Saul David

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with. — Terence McKenna

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve. — Charles Frazier