--- title: "8 Decade Century Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 8 Decade Century quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Decade Century sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfb/blake-crouch-2197_daily-life_now-old-and-dying-or-dead-already-and-we_509816.png" --- > [“Now, old and dying or dead already, and we have mostly acclimatized to the absurdity of daily life in the fourth decade…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-crouch/now-old-and-dying-or-dead-already-and-we-have-mostly-acclimatized-to/) [Blake Crouch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-crouch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfb/blake-crouch-2197_daily-life_now-old-and-dying-or-dead-already-and-we_509816.png) > [In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noah-feldman/in-the-first-decade-of-the-twenty-first-century-the-major/) [Noah Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noah-feldman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f1/noah-feldman-12383_between_in-the-first-decade-of-the-twenty-first_678934.png) > [“We are spread across the country now, old and dying or dead already, and we have mostly acclimatized to the absurdity of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-crouch/we-are-spread-across-the-country-now-old-and-dying-or-dead-already/) [Blake Crouch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-crouch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/489/blake-crouch-2197_daily-life_we-are-spread-across-the-country-now-old_1259416.png) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43d/john-archibald-wheeler-17976_beautiful_behind-it-all-is-surely-an-idea-so-simpl_1347122.png) > [“the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, political Islam in general, and the Muslim Brotherhood in particu lar, believed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tarek-osman/the-end-of-the-first-decade-of-the-twenty-first-century-political/) [Tarek Osman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tarek-osman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b4/tarek-osman-8064_islam_the-end-of-the-first-decade-of-the-twent_2151106.jpg) > [I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-eagleman/i-think-the-first-decade-of-this-century-is-going-to-be-remembered-as/) [David Eagleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-eagleman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5d/david-eagleman-2079_century_i-think-the-first-decade-of-this-century_2164085.png) > [By the end of the third decade of this century, all of American life - politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-j-romm/by-the-end-of-the-third-decade-of-this-century-all-of-american-life/) [Joseph J. Romm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-j-romm/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ce/joseph-j-romm-17334_american-life_by-the-end-of-the-third-decade-of-this-c_2742403.jpg) > [“The first decade of the twenty-first century was a crazy bookend to the twentieth, opening with a second Pearl Harbor and ending…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-frum/the-first-decade-of-the-twenty-first-century-was-a-crazy-bookend-to/) [David Frum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-frum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df0/david-frum-3455_decade_the-first-decade-of-the-twenty-first-cen_3188854.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/decade-century/#itemlist", "name": "Decade Century Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Now, old and dying or dead already, and we have mostly acclimatized to the absurdity of daily life in the fourth decade of the twenty-first century, although occasionally we regress and rant. 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