Quotes with century-old

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  • Bertrand Piccard 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
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Beth Simone Noveck In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • C. L. R. James In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Bill Vaughan In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Erich Fromm In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Arthur Peacocke In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Albert Ellis In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • August Strindberg In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Bruce Forsyth In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • John Jewel In the old time we have treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.
    Certain sermons preached before the queen's majesty (1609)
    John Jewel
    English clergyman and bishop (1522 - 1571)
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  • Oscar Wilde In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • E. L. Doctorow In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
    E. L. Doctorow
    American writer (1931 - 2015)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Nikola Tesla In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • B. Carroll Reece In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Bill Owens In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Bruce Catton In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Alexander Pope In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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