Quotes with century

Quotes 21 till 40 of 191.

  • Ban Ki-moon Chemical weapons simply have no place in the 21st century. Progress in this vital area will help generate momentum to meet our goal of eliminating all weapons of mass destruction.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • George W. Truett Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.
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  • Barry Diller Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Sir Peter Medawar Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.
    Sir Peter Medawar
    British biologist and immunologist (1915 - 1987)
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  • Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
    Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
    American advertising executive
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  • Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
    Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
    American advertising executive
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  • Ban Ki-moon Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Bill Viola Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • J. G. Ballard 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
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Benito Mussolini Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Kofi Annan From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.
    Toespraak bij ontvangst Nobelprijs (2001)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • C. S. Lewis He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 19-20
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Roland Barthes Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Anne Stevenson I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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