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title: "23 Century Ago Quotes by 23 authors"
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> [The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/the-actual-atoms-and-molecules-that-make-up-my-brain-and-body-today/)

[Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/)

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> [The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/the-march-of-invention-has-clothed-mankind-with-powers-of-which-a/)

[Henry George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-george/)

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> [We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-jennings/we-don-t-realize-how-hard-it-was-to-drive-anywhere-outside-the-major/)

[Ken Jennings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-jennings/)

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> [Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernice-fitz-gibbon/creativity-often-consists-of-merely-turning-up-what-is-already-there-2/)

[Bernice Fitz-Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernice-fitz-gibbon/)

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> [We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-fowles/we-can-sometimes-recognize-the-looks-of-a-century-ago-on-a-modern/)

[John Fowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-fowles/)

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> [Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-flaubert/our-ignorance-of-history-causes-us-to-slander-our-own-times-the/)

[Gustave Flaubert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-flaubert/)

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> [“A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/a-century-ago-life-screwed-that-poor-man-and-me-because-we-were-too/)

[Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/)

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> [“Why? Because the ethic of rehabilitation, established almost a century ago, lives on.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beth-linker/why-because-the-ethic-of-rehabilitation-established-almost-a-century/)

[Beth Linker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beth-linker/)

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> [The FTC was actually created more than a century ago, in the era of the robber barons and the industrial trust and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lina-khan/the-ftc-was-actually-created-more-than-a-century-ago-in-the-era-of/)

[Lina Khan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lina-khan/)

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> [“A century ago she might have been beautiful, her face reflected in the river instead of a mirror. But all the years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/a-century-ago-she-might-have-been-beautiful-her-face-reflected-in-the/)

[Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/)

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> [A century ago the Spanish flu confounded scientists and devastated whole regions, but while today's society has air travel and an enormous,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-fry/a-century-ago-the-spanish-flu-confounded-scientists-and-devastated/)

[Hannah Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-fry/)

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> [“Mankind was on the moon in the 1960s, Jon. That was half a century ago. Nuclear power. The transistor. The laser. All…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-suarez/mankind-was-on-the-moon-in-the-1960s-jon-that-was-half-a-century-ago/)

[Daniel Suarez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-suarez/)

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> [The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-major-advances-in-speed-of-communication-and-ability-to-interact/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-holbrook/when-the-audience-begins-to-see-the-sunrise-on-that-it-s-hard-for/)

[Hal Holbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-holbrook/)

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> [Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-ferguson/although-the-war-in-which-you-fought-took-place-more-than-half-a/)

[Mike Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-ferguson/)

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> [If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/auberon-herbert/if-government-half-a-century-ago-had-provided-us-with-all-our-dinners/)

[Auberon Herbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/auberon-herbert/)

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> [Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mario-bunge/contemporary-philosophers-are-facing-problems-that-were-unthinkable/)

[Mario Bunge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mario-bunge/)

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> [Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bracken/two-thirds-of-a-century-ago-we-were-given-a-national-policy-it-was/)

[John Bracken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-bracken/)

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> [A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-buchan/a-century-ago-petroleum-what-we-call-oil-was-just-an-obscure/)

[James Buchan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-buchan/)

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> [The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-diamandis/the-old-newspaper-adage-if-it-bleeds-it-leads-is-as-true-today-as-it/)

[Peter Diamandis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-diamandis/)

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> [“But I did get to see the sunrise from 36,000 feet above the ground, and it occurred to me that until a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/but-i-did-get-to-see-the-sunrise-from-36-000-feet-above-the-ground/)

[John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/)

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> [Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-m-krauss/our-modern-conception-of-the-universe-is-so-foreign-to-what-even/)

[Lawrence M. Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-m-krauss/)

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> [Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-banchoff/today-the-major-reason-for-our-interest-in-flatland-is-that-for-the/)

[Thomas Banchoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-banchoff/)

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