Century Quotes
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This is the century of fear.
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Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED
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I'm making the comeback of the century.
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It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus.
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It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
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At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.
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Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'
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Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.
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Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?
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The world will soon start to run out of conventionally produced, cheap oil…. We [will] start to run out of all fossil fuels by the end of this century.
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In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.
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Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.
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It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.
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I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.
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We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!
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If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century.
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At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.
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Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.
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The twentieth century belongs to Canada.
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The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.
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I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'
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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.
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Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers, there has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit, there has followed inevitably a fresh endeavor in the work of evangelizing the world.
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It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.
