Quotes with century

Quotes 41 till 60 of 191.

  • Alan Turing I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
    Alan Turing
    English mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
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  • Hillary Clinton I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
    Hillary Clinton
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Alejo Carpentier I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
    Alejo Carpentier
    Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Jung Chang I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.
    Jung Chang
    Chinese-born British writer (1952 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
    Barbara C. Jordan--selected speeches
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of ''Munich'' may exceed the original error of 1938.
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  • James A. Michener I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
    James A. Michener
    American writer (1907 - 1997)
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  • Art Spiegelman 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.
    Art Spiegelman
    American cartoonist and editor (1948 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Benito Mussolini If the 19th was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the collective century, and therefore the century of the state.
    The Doctrine of Fascism
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Bella Abzug If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.
    Bella Abzug
    American lawyer and politician (1920 - 1998)
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  • George H.W. Bush If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
    George H.W. Bush
    American politician and president (41st) (1924 - 2018)
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  • H.G. Wells In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Benedict Wong In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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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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  • 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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