Century Quotes - Page 29

• Our law enforcement must have every tool necessary to find and disrupt terrorists at home and abroad. That's the task of the 21st century.

  George W. Bush

  Home, Law, Tasks

  "How can the U.S. remain competitive?". Debate at Washington University, www.cnn.com. October 8, 2004.

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• In fact, the same difficulties faced by Reagan in the 1980-s are still there [in the beginning of 21 century]: how do you hit a bullet with a bullet? The technology is getting better, but it still is focused on one interceptor knocking down one missile. In war, there would be many more challenges, more chaos, more uncertainty.

  David Hoffman

  War, Technology, Challenges

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was the place where everyone wanted to go. Empires wanted to be able to say that they were the first to put a climber on top of Everest. So when a tragedy happens up on that mountain, I think it has a global resonance. Everybody's heard of Everest. Everybody knows what Everest is and what it means, and the significance.

  Richard Engel

  Mean, Moon, Thinking

  "Richard Engel Spotlights Heroes and Victims of Everest Avalanche". Interview with Andrew Katz, time.com. June 25, 2015.

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• We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

  Erica Jong

  Rights, Ideas, Feminism

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those children know they are not educated in the right way.

  Donna Edwards

  Children, School, Trying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• For more than a century, people have often thought that the conclusion to draw from Darwin's vision is that Homo sapiens, our species - and we're just animals too, we're just mammals - that there is nothing morally special about us. I myself don't think this follows at all from Darwin's vision, but it is certainly the received view in many quarters.

  Daniel Dennett

  Animal, Thinking, Views

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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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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• [The Democratic Party]it's a party with an incredible century-and-a-half history of institutional racism.

  Sean Hannity

  Party, Racism, Half

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Tony Blair a couple years ago was going around apologizing for everything. He apologized for the Irish potato famine. The Canadian government apologized for how it treated Indian school children.When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

  Sean Hannity

  Couple, Children, Party

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

  Mark Steyn

  Party, Abolition Of Slavery, Racism

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• May the time not be far off when all other European nations will come to the realisation that the primary necessity is putting an end to the quarrels and strife of centuries and of building up of a finer community of all peoples is: The recognition of a higher common duty arising out of common rights?

  Adolf Hitler

  Rights, Building Up, Community

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• All through the centuries scholars and scientists have been imprisoned, tortured and burned alive for some discovery which seemed to conflict with a petty text of Scripture. Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Book, Discovery, Law

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.279, tredition

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• For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.

  Joy Williams

  Beautiful, Song, Eye

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.123, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized and said, 'I never said I was a geology major.'

  Conan O'Brien

  War, America, Revolutionary

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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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• J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and dramatists alike.

  Jeffrey K. Zeig

  Reading, Men, Pioneers

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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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• We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings.

  Brian Aldiss

  Coffee, White, Understanding

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• In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

  Dennis Miller

  Addiction, Sober, Late

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.48, Main Street Books

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• No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and no one writes about that supremely talented man, that tumultuous time and this treasure of a game better than Howard Bryant. Together, they are an extraordinary combination, and the book Bryant has written gets to the heart of the complicated and dignified, patient and consistent genuine hero that is Henry Aaron.

  Ken Burns

  Baseball, Hero, Book

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• Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Jesus, Sky, Bird

  Guillaume Apollinaire (2011). “Alcools: Poems”, p.5, Wesleyan University Press

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• After over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance themselves.

  Arnold Kling

  People, Half, Care

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• Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and untrained men and women the right to vote equally uninstructed and untrained people into responsible positions.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Men, People, Intellectual

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books

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• If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Use, Recipes, Today

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2865, Delphi Classics

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• America was founded by intellectuals, a rare occurrence in the history of modern nations We might even say that America was founded by intellectuals, from which it has taken us two centuries and a communications revolution to recover.

  Neil Postman

  Communication, Taken, Two

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.41, Penguin

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