Century Quotes - Page 6

• The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

  Neal Barnard

  War, Native American, Animal

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• The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

  Henry George

  Philosophy, Imagination, Political

  Louis Freeland Post, Henry George (1899). “The Single Tax: An Explanation, with Colored Charts and Illustrated Notes of the Land, Labor, and Fiscal Reform Advocated by Henry George”

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• Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Foxes, Integration, Posts

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• The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

  David Antin

  Pieces, World, Entertainment

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• Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.

  Bob Filner

  Determination, Inspiration, Half

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• Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.

  Thomas Szasz

  Sex, Disease, Masturbation

  The Second Sin (1973) "Sex"

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• Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Reality, Support, Half

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• The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Age, Individualism, Socialism

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.112, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• Genius always finds itself a century too early.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligence, Genius, Talent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.81, University of Missouri Press

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• All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

  Gore Vidal

  World

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

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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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• You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

  George Lakoff

  Brain, Twenties, Firsts

  George Lakoff (2008). “The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics”, p.10, Penguin

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• Bless, O Lord of the centuries and the millennia, the daily work by which men and women provide bread for themselves and their loved ones. We also offer to your fatherly hands the toil and sacrifices associated with work, in union with your Son Jesus Christ, who redeemed human work from the yoke of sin and restored it to its original dignity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Son

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• I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

  William Booth

  Heaven, Ghost, Hell

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

  Jose Marti

  Grain, Seasons

  "Dedication of the Statue of Liberty". Essay by Jose Marti, 1887.

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• Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

  Josh McDowell

  Biblical, Historical, Reliability

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• In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children that the leaders are good and their policies are wise. The core is religious intolerance. The sides simply change between the Atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Unitarians, etc., depending whether you are talking about the Soviet Union, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, America, etc. A common second reason is to prepare the boys to go to war and the girls to cheer them on.

  Marshall Fritz

  Girl, Wise, Country

  "The Separation of School and State Alliance". Interview with Mary Leggewie, www.homeschoolchristian.com. June 3, 1999.

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• We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Science, Order, Ideas

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• The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Intelligent, Minorities

  Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), December 31, 2000.

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• The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Business, Caves

  "Culture Is Our Business". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1970.

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• Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Men, Choices, Written

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

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• Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.

  Harry Shearer

  Art, Thinking, Trying

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• I think the next century will be the century of complexity.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Next, Complexity

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• In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Hero, Fighting, Thinking

  "Adventurer sets sights on the sun for an 'impossible' dream". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2010.

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• A world without walls is the only sustainable world. . . . If the world is dominated by people who believe that their races, their religions, their ethnic differences are the most important factors, then a huge number of people will perish in this century.

  William J. Clinton

  Wall, Believe, Race

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