Quotes with late-twentieth-century

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  • Charles Caleb Colton Bed is a bundle of paradoxes; we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; and we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Barry Marshall Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Billy Childish Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
    Billy Childish
    English painter, author, poet and photographer (1959 - )
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  • William Congreve Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • A. N. Wilson Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
    The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) ch. 24
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Bill Flores By fostering competition, leveling the playing field, and increasing transparency, we can bring America's health care sector into the 21st century.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Carol Loomis By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • 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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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Billy Joel Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait. You Catholic girls start much too late, Ah, but sooner or later it comes down to fate. I might as well be the one.
    Only the Good Die Young (1977)
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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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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  • B. C. Forbes Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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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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  • Seneca Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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