Century Quotes - Page 2

• There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Greatness, People, Desire

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 70, 1799.

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• The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Anxiety, Roles

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author”, p.282, Henry Holt and Company

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• The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Real, Technology, Skills

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• Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

  Pat Sajak

  Here I Am, Sometimes, Quarters

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• This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Age, Sincerity, Mass

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

  Mark Twain

  Radicalism, Next, Conservative

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.393, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Death, Thinking, Museums

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• The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

  Albert Camus

  Real, Passion, Servitude

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• 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

  Life, Peace, War

  Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.17, Turner Publishing Company

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• The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Life, Spiritual, Disease

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• Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

  Richard Meier

  Rome, Cities, Frozen

  "Building in Rome, no holiday / The eternal city wants to keep its architecture fixed in time, but the Ara Pacis marks a renaissance of modern era" by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. April 26, 2006.

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• Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

  J. G. Ballard

  Reality, Sprung Up, Fiction

  "Fictions of Every Kind" (1971)

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• The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Mind, Tasks

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• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Color, Racism, Lines

  The Souls of Black Folk ch. 2 (1903)

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• This young century will be liberty's century.

  George W. Bush

  Liberty, Young

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Damage Is Done, Earth, Mankind

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• I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

  Bing Crosby

  Music, Country, Thinking

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• As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

  Robert A. Dahl

  Men, Tyrants, Democracy

  Robert A. Dahl (2015). “On Democracy”, p.13, Yale University Press

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• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mother, Humorous, Careers

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• 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

  Technology, Phones, Years

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• The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Taught Us, Evil, World

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• It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century

  Lawrence Summers

  Europe, Would Be, Shapes

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• The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

  M. H. Abrams

  Biblical, Enlightenment, Philosopher

  "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

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• I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

  Dave Heineman

  Believe, Quality, Proud

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• We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

  Oriana Fallaci

  Leader, Age, Ends

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