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The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations. -- Chuck Hagel
If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history. -- M.F. Moonzajer
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information. -- James Howard Kunstler
When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen. -- Alexander McQueen
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. -- Nikola Tesla
I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century. -- Sarah Polley
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. -- Douglas Rushkoff
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy. -- Noah Feldman
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
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I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century. -- Bill Ford
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
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. -- Freeman Dyson
In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In the twenty-first, if we have to, we'll beat the Americans!' -- William T. Vollmann
The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis. -- Nikola Tesla
Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well. -- Madison Smartt Bell
What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again. -- Eric Liu
Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. -- Freeman Dyson
It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers. -- Diane Wood
I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth. -- Leonard Susskind
If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look. -- James Gleick
Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before. -- Rob Sheffield
Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families. -- Cynthia Heimel
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. -- George Lakoff
The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water. -- Ismail Serageldin
The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity. -- Jonathan Sacks
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be. -- Andre Malraux
Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy. -- Charles W. Pickering
To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper. -- Chris Brogan
Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century. -- Angela Merkel
Game design isn't just a technological craft. It's a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading. -- Jane McGonigal
I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century. -- William Carey Jones
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. -- Dalai Lama
exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century. -- Phyllis Chesler
The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. -- Robert Hass
It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive." "Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car. -- Janet Evanovich
It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century. -- Robert D. Kaplan
The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum. -- Tania Bruguera
The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in. -- James Howard Kunstler
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
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 we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
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
Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies. -- Roz Chast
I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century. -- Bill Ford
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent. -- Zygmunt Bauman
America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth. -- Michael Martin Hammer
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
As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace. -- Mahnaz Afkhami
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
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
What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines? -- Matthew Crawford
We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities. -- Jewell Jackson McCabe
The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century. -- Jack Kemp
In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who can write the universal manual on imagination? -- Martin Guevara Urbina
The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible. -- E. O. Wilson
To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value. -- William J. Clinton
The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible. -- E. O. Wilson
One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine. -- Walter Truett Anderson
Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer. -- Eric Hobsbawm
Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. -- Howard Rheingold
In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus) Then it's a good thing we're in the twenty-first century and not the Dark Ages, isn't it? (Fang) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age. -- Walter Isaacson
Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does. -- Larissa Ione
Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people. -- Rajiv Gandhi
In order for humanity to survive in the twenty-first century and beyond, we must nurture rather than repress children's natural curiosity. We must encourage them to be curious, instead of fearful, toward other cultures. -- Paul K. Chappell
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens. -- William J. Clinton
Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is. -- George Porter
The war in Afghanistan, the first war of the twenty-first century, shows the United States doing what it wants to do, not caring about who it antagonizes, not caring about the effects on neighboring regions. -- Tariq Ali
One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense. -- Evgeny Morozov

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