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The angry mob of villagers wield camera phones, the twenty-first century equivalent of pitchforks and flaming torches. — Erin Kelly

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

Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. — Zadie Smith

Google, that twenty-first-century Big Brother, — Stephen King

Twenty-first-century technology takes the fate out of life. — Gwendolyn Heasley

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. — Nikola Tesla

If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history. — M.F. Moonzajer

According to the laws of early twenty-first century cinema, anyone speaking Japanese is in a horror movie. If — Seth Grahame-Smith

The greatest challenge on the Web in the twenty-first century is to connect with your target audience in a way that enriches both them and you. — David Amerland

(optimisme itself was a word that first entered the French language in the eighteenth century). — Kenan Malik

Few of us are equipped to cope with the complexity and dazzling variety of twenty-first-century existence. — John Brunner

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume. — Sandra Tsing Loh

Exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century. — Phyllis Chesler

Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science. — Barry W. Lynn

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons. — Ricky Jay

But in the fourth century, as in any other, 'no plan survives first contact with the enemy'. — Peter Heather

Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering. — Martin O'Malley

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane. — Muriel Rukeyser

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

Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book. — Howard G. Hendricks

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. — Adam Hochschild

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

Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century. — Carl Honore

I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century. — William Carey

Presentation literacy isn't an optional extra for the few. It's a core skill for the twenty-first century. — Chris J. Anderson

No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood. — Timothy Snyder

But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century. — Mark Steyn

For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking. — Ernest Cline

The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography. — Jeffery Deaver

Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel. — Erwin W. Lutzer

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

Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854. — Shigeru Yoshida

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth. — Heinrich Heine

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in. — James Howard Kunstler

The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations. — Chuck Hagel

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

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century. — Robert D. Kaplan

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century. — Ray Bradbury

Ministry in the twenty-first century will be impacted by the example of the "sons of God. — David C. Alves

I begin with writing the first
sentence - and trusting to Almighty
God for the second. — Laurence Sterne

But he's genuine twenty-first-century and only faking patience. — Skyler White

Game design isn't just a technological craft. It's a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading. — Jane McGonigal

Information and intelligence is the fire and maneuver of the twenty-first century," says Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, — Mark Bowden

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. — Robert Hass

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water. — Ismail Serageldin

Those living in palaces have always had different agendas to those living in shacks, and that is unlikely to change in the twenty-first century. — Yuval Noah Harari

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. — Douglas Rushkoff

I was recently downsized. That's the twenty-first-century way of saying I got canned. She — Stephen King

The first important act of self-denial for 21st-century followers of Jesus may be to say no to being too busy to be a disciple. — Thomas Oord

You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope. — Stephenie Meyer

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism. — David Eagleman

He sniffed his armpits just to see if they were rank, but they weren't. Let's hear it for twenty-first century deodorant. — Lisa Marie Rice

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century. — Angela Merkel

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities. — Wayne Swan

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity. — Jonathan Sacks

As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy. — Charles W. Pickering

I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps. — David Mitchell

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. — George Lakoff

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy. — Noah Feldman

Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF the twenty-first century. Some — Carmine Gallo

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

Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. — James Howard Kunstler

The church of the Twenty-first Century will have the belt of dominion and will have the leading role in every area of society. — Sunday Adelaja

Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962. — Owen Hatherley

Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families. — Cynthia Heimel

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

Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the seeds were planted for a century of bloodshed. — Richard Engel

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

In the Twenty-first century we are going to confront a climate shock worse than any mankind has ever experienced. — Guillaume Faye

Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century. — Oliver DeMille

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

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

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

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

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

This was the part where Charlotte, heroine, remembered she was a twenty-first-century woman and a mother. This was Charlotte saying, Hell no! — Shannon Hale

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile, — Greg Bear

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. — Thomas Sowell

Smokers are the lepers of the twenty-first century. — Jim Stevens

It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive."
"Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car. — Janet Evanovich

The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people. — Pope Francis

Ghosts, unicorns, and gods. That seemed much less of a fantasy than the twenty-first century. — Rick Riordan

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got. — Manil Suri

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be. — Andre Malraux

The dominant ethos of the twenty-first century consists of an intermingling of the sacred and the secular. — Harvey Cox

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five. — Mark-Paul Gosselaar

The mind for truth
Begins, like a stream, shallow
At first, but then
Adds more and more depth
While gaining greater clarity. — Saigyo

It was the first morning of the first day of the new century. Snow blanketed the ground. Anything was possible. — Jacqueline Kelly

General theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. They are the great intellectual achievements of the first half of this century. — Stephen Hawking

It was my first visit to the scene of the crime
a high, dingy, narrow-chested house, prim, formal, and solid, like the century which gave it birth. — Arthur Conan Doyle

She couldn't be the first alien to crash-land on twenty-first-century Earth. — Patricia Eimer

It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it. — Charlotte Whitton

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. — Margaret Mead

At the start of the twenty-first century, the advertising industry is guiding one of history's most massive stealth efforts in social profiling. — Joseph Turow