America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success. — Alex Spanos Copy Share Image
What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all,… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album… — Moby Copy Share Image
By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial developers embody the 21st century… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live… — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries -… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has… — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image