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The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.
I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.
The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists.
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization.
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.
Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.
Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.
18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.
We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.
Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.
Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.
The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge.
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.
The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.
You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.
G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.
'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.
I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.
The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.
We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.
My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.
If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.
the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)
One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.
Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.
The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.