21st Century Quotes

• The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

  Ralph Peters

  Relationship, Powerful, Technology

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• 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

  Men, Light, Mind

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Magazine Interview, www.bowiewonderworld.com. June 16, 2002.

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• 'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

  Russell Means

  Usa, People, Century

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• 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

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

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• We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

  Barack Obama

  Challenges, Century, Bureaucracy

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• The whole society has to recognize the importance of the value in embracing what science is going into the 21st Century. Otherwise, we might as well start packing and moving back into the cave right now, because that's where we'll end up.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moving, Caves, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

  Ron Kind

  Success, Congratulations, America

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• An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.

  Adam Ant

  Friendship, Brain, Century

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• I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind

  Ednita Nazario

  Self, Mind, Speak

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• As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.

  Edward Witten

  Strong, Block, Everyday

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• This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing. We have been lulled into addiction and everything is built around it and you have to break out of it and think outside of the box.

  Neil Young

  Thinking, Race, Addiction

  Source: the-talks.com

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• In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

  Kofi Annan

  Believe, Race, Profound

  Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.

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• The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

  John Naisbitt

  Mean, Technology, Century

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• I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don't know how the laws fit together, and what happens under extreme conditions. But I expect we will find a complete unified theory sometime this century. The is no limit to the complexity that we can build using those basic laws.

  Stephen Hawking

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

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• I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

  Anne Stevenson

  Horror, Century, Glad

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• Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.

  Tony Visconti

  Fun, Vintage, Brain

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• It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

  Barack Obama

  Creativity, Responsibility, Thinking

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• As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Literature, Spirit

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• The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.

  William J. Clinton

  Common Humanity, Interesting, Peaceful

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• I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Taken, Past

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• 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

  Competition, Needs, Graduates

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• In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Teacher, Jobs, Thinking

  Interview with Lucy Ward, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2005.

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• In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Color, Gone Away, White

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• The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

  Michael Moore

  Ideas, People, Innovation

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• Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native born, immigrant, straight or gay - whatever; the test ought to be I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow. I'm building that bridge to the 21st century. That ought to be the test.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Horse, Believe

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1417, Best Books on

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