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title: "3 Century Millennium Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Century Millennium quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Century Millennium sayings and thoughts."
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> [In order to have a decent chance to be a communicating species, you would have to learn to think and plan and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-grinspoon/in-order-to-have-a-decent-chance-to-be-a-communicating-species-you/)

[David Grinspoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-grinspoon/)

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> [The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-c-clarke/the-intelligent-minority-of-this-world-will-mark-1-january-2001-as/)

[Arthur C. Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-c-clarke/)

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> [Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-archibald-wheeler/behind-it-all-is-surely-an-idea-so-simple-so-beautiful-that-when-we/)

[John Archibald Wheeler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-archibald-wheeler/)

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