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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. -- Albert Camus
Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century. -- Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles. -- Clifford Odets
I am a 21st Century Yoda in stilettos. -- LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier
I am the conscience of the 21st Century. -- Martin Firrell
Genius always finds itself a century too early. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century. -- Ricky Jay
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. -- Marshall McLuhan
Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century. -- Daisaku Ikeda
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. -- George Lakoff
I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century -- Charlton Heston
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. -- Marshall McLuhan
The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century. -- Cyrus Vance, Jr.
We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy. -- Barack Obama
Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century. -- John Doerr
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. -- Gertrude Stein
Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration. -- Joe Pantoliano
Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century. -- Paul Begala
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. -- William Lyon Phelps
Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century. -- Gavin Bryars
EFT is destined to be a top healing tool for the 21st Century. -- Candace Pert
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. -- Gore Vidal
Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none. -- Louis Farrakhan
The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage. -- George Bernard Shaw
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. -- Stephen Ambrose
Left vs. Right is an out-dated concept and an oversimplification of 21st Century politics -- James Morcan
A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come. -- Itzhak Perlman
The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five. -- Mark-Paul Gosselaar
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism -- Constance Baker Motley
I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century. -- Arne Glimcher
I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful. -- Raymond Loewy
I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind -- Ednita Nazario
The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour. -- Sara Sheridan
In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right. -- Nelson Mandela
Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care. -- Anthony Principi
Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with. -- Terence McKenna
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. -- David Hockney
Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED -- William Rathbone Greg
We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools. -- Al Franken
The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety. -- Gavin Newsom
21st Century choice: Look after our planet and it will look after us, or don't and face the consequences -- Phil Harding
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. -- Norman Mailer
I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century. -- Van Jones
No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century. -- Diana Vreeland
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. -- Richard Meier
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. -- Niklas Zennstrom
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. -- Arthur C. Clarke
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months. -- Sophie Swetchine
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. -- Neal Barnard
It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy. -- Christopher Bond
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. -- Douglas MacArthur
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. -- Ken Burns
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. -- Isaac Asimov
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. -- Alfred Hitchcock
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. -- Daniel Libeskind
Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed. -- Abdallah II
I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell. -- William Booth
As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains. -- Jean Baudrillard
Without a song, each day would be a century. -- Mahalia Jackson
Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. -- Dave Anderson
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. -- Bill Gates
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. -- Benito Mussolini
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. -- E. L. Doctorow
In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability. -- Bertrand Piccard
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves. -- Auberon Herbert
Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century. -- David Chalmers
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! -- Noam Chomsky
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
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For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character. -- Ferdinand Mount
I wanted to write about racism and xenophobia in 21st Century England and Ireland, but I wanted to do it in an exciting way so that I could reach more readers. Zombies seemed like a good way to do that. -- Darren Shan
I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric. -- Michio Kaku
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century. -- Walter Murch
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens. -- David Cameron
It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising. -- Meles Zenawi
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man. -- David Bowie
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. -- Warren Buffett
Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette. -- David Rakoff
What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative. -- Kevin Rudd
Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life. -- Peter Agre
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds. -- David Gerrold
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. -- Sam Ervin
Science is our century's art. -- Horace Freeland Judson
Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost. -- Seamus Heaney
I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic. -- John Banville
The twentieth century belongs to Canada. -- Wilfrid Laurier
Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century. -- George Crumb
This is the century of fear. -- Albert Camus
Our century is a brutal thinker. -- Pierre-Jean de Beranger
If I could only live another century! -- Susan B. Anthony
This young century will be liberty's century. -- George W. Bush
I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction. -- John Larroquette
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. -- Jill Lepore
In the 21st century, culture is power. -- Park Geun-hye
I'm making the comeback of the century. -- Bob Backlund
Any team can have a bad century. -- Jack Brickhouse
Christian art today should be twentieth-century art. -- Francis Schaeffer
Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge. -- Martin Wolf
Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation -- Robert Motherwell
Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families. -- Cynthia Heimel
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. -- Norman Mailer
Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century! -- Greg Roberts
This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts. -- A. L. Rowse
In the last century, everybody was singing lower. -- Placido Domingo
Socialism has been a great tragedy this century. -- Robert Heilbroner
There's always been a women's movement this century! -- Mary Stott
Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century. -- Russell Lynes
I am a child of the 21st century. -- John Shelby Spong
I am a person of the 18th century. -- Cecilia Bartoli
TV is the rat race of the century. -- Groucho Marx
Hey, any team can have a bad century. -- Tom Trebelhorn
It was a little skirmish across a century. -- Margery Allingham
India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century. -- Rahul Gandhi
Television is the medium of the 20th century. -- Hugh Downs
Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century. -- Gianfranco Fini

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