21st Century Quotes - Page 16

• In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them, then you are reduced to writing about spectacular unreal people. You know, James Bond or something, and you cook up adventures.

  John Updike

  Adventure, Writing, Issues

  "Two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction". American Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

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• Cooperation will save the future. And America should lead it. Every time humanity has been in danger of extinguishing itself, our consciousness and our conscience have led us to come together. That's the big issue of the 21st century.

  William J. Clinton

  America, Issues, Humanity

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• In the previous days and times, we've been involved, not exclusively, but largely, in the process of individual survival: How do I get through the day, how do I get through the week, how do I get through the month? In the 21st century, we're learning that we can no longer concentrate on individual survival strategies, that unless we begin to coalesce those strategies and learn how we can survive collectively, that no individual is going to survive in the long run.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Running, Long, Survival

  Source: www.kabbalah.info

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• Paradigm shifts aren't always obvious when you're in the middle of one. Danny Kennedy makes a compelling case for why solar power is the crucial energy technology of the 21st century.

  Michael Brune

  Technology, Energy, Century

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• The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.

  Arne Duncan

  Smart, School, College

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• President Bush said that American workers will need new skills to get the new jobs in the 21st century. Some of the skills they're going to need are Spanish, Chinese, Korean, because that's where the jobs went. Who better than Bush as an example of what can happen when you take a job without any training.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Skills, Chinese

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• I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.

  Marco Rubio

  Education, Fashion, Jobs

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• Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

  Kedar Joshi

  Technology, Meditation, Computer

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• Leadership is the great challenge of the 21st century in science, politics, education, and industry. But the greatest challenge in leadership is parenting. We need to do more than just get our enterprises ready for the challenges of the twenty-first century. We also need to get our children ready for the challenges of the 21st century.

  Jim Rohn

  Children, Challenges, Twenties

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 19, 2015

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• I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

  Martin Firrell

  Century, Conscience

  International Herald Tribune, November 24, 2005.

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• Tony Abbott might think coal's good for humanity, of course it was an important driver in the story of the Australian nation. But when we're talking about the 21st Century and those industries that are gonna take us forward, it won't be coal.

  Richard Di Natale

  Thinking, Talking, Humanity

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century. With modern technology and globalization, we are much more connected than ever before. The world's warehouses are now container ships.

  David Titley

  Technology, World, Ships

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• We need to invest in peoples lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.

  Ann McLane Kuster

  Jobs, Needs, Century

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• Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the 21st century-and to take advantage of its opportunities-it is essential that more of our students today learn basic computer programming skills, no matter what field of work they want to pursue.

  Todd Park

  Technology, Opportunity, Skills

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• Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become a wave of recognition for a book that the world is beginning to catch up to... We weren't ready before. We'd better be ready now. Because it's the 21st century, any minute now, and that means that Misha's time has come. In more ways than one.

  John Shirley

  Rip, Book, Mean

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• I think that the Bible as a system of moral guidance in the 21st century is insufficient, to put it mildly. I feel quite strongly that we need a new moral lodestone if we can't rely on what is inside our own selves. Which I think, actually, is pretty reliable.

  Emma Thompson

  Thinking, Self, Needs

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• The Democratic Party is the - was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the English-speaking world. And it is the only one that has survived to the 21st century!

  Sean Hannity

  Powerful, Party, World

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm lucky enough to have a kid with me who is actually really intellectually up with what's going on in the world and actually puts his money where his mouth is and goes and does something about it; he goes and talks about it. It livens you up a bit and it brings you into the 21st Century.

  Ray Winstone

  Kids, Mouths, Doe

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Growth, Economy, Century

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• Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble-one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.

  Lester R. Brown

  Aquifers, Land, Civilization

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• Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

  Barack Obama

  America, Politics, Climate

  Remarks by the President at Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience Meeting, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 16, 2014.

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• I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.

  FM-2030

  Nostalgia, Century, Persons

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• Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.

  Lech Walesa

  Technology, Development, Individualism

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• Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

  Alexandra Kerry

  Stronger, Fiction, Century

  Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale

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• Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy.

  Li Keqiang

  Believe, Play, People

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