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Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate… — Bill Jenkins
The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom; that is precisely… — Phil Harding
A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics — Phil Harding
It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous… — Margaret Beckett
Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA sequence… — Edward Kennedy
Television is the medium of the 20th century. — Hugh Downs
If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. — Carl Sagan
So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until… — Michael Beschloss
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein… — Ken Burns
The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has… — Charles A. Murray
The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances. — William James
The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will… — Peter Drucker
Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. — Ross McKitrick
Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century. — Barbara Amiel
Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great… — Tran ?uc Luong
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed. — Howard Hodgkin
The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly. — Warren Buffett
Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is… — Robert Kiyosaki
Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The… — Mikhail Gorbachev
This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and… — John Podesta
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century. — Cornel West
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. — Adam Hochschild
The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of… — Richard Hough
D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It… — Stephen Ambrose
The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress. — George W. Bush

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