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TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.
What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all.
It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.
At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent
I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.
What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.
The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change.
The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century.
The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.
Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.
I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.
Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.
Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.
In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.
Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.
Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century.
The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.
It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.
We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
Mobile internet will be the single-most defining technology of this century for human development.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.
He ran a gas station down in St. Louis. No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.
We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.
People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.
No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.