Quotes and Sayings About Century
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This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.
-- A. L. Rowse -
The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,
-- Achim SteinerSource : "Globalisation and agriculture industry exacerbating bee decline, says UN" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2011.
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It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
-- Alan Paton -
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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
-- Albert Camus -
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
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The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
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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 KerrySource : Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale
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This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.
-- Alfred BesterSource : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”
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So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
-- Alfred North WhiteheadSource : Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.9, Book Tree
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For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.
-- Allison PearsonSource : "Irrational. Contradictory. Mad" by Allison Pearson, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.
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Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century.
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To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming
-- Andrew Simms -
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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 -
I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
-- Anne Stevenson -
I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.
-- Arne GlimcherSource : "The Mindy Project's Ed Weeks Reveals All About Women and Acting and Why He Won't Drive a BMW". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. November 19, 2013.
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I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.
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Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.
-- Augustus De MorganSource : Augustus De Morgan (1966). “On the syllogism: and other logical writings”
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
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[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
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...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.
-- Baroness OrczySource : Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.31, Xist Publishing
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Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
-- Barry Lopez -
Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
-- Barry McGuiganSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
-- Ben EltonSource : Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
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The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.
-- Bernard-Henri Levy