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3251 Century quotes by 2144 unique authors

• I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have… — Newt Gingrich
• We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for… — Jack Kemp
• There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding… — John F. Kennedy
• The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water. — Ismail Serageldin
• We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will be the critical… — Unknown Author
• While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain… — Aberjhani
• His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something… — Aberjhani
• Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the… — Kofi Annan
• James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the… — Jeremy Rifkin
• Malthus argued a century and a half ago that man, by using up all his available resources, would forever press on the limits of subsistence,… — John F. Kennedy
• In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children… — Marshall Fritz
• Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th… — Damon Hill
• Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that… — Unknown Author
• I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but charismatic element of… — Unknown Author
• Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature… — R C Sproul
• Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot… — Carl Sagan
• In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic… — Carl Sagan
• The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the… — Henry Ford
• Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance. — John C. Bogle
• The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am… — Luis Walter Alvarez
• We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in… — Barack Obama
• As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this… — Kenneth Scott Latourette
• The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in… — Theodore Hesburgh
• The first century money changers were in the temple, but they didn't have the spirit of the temple... They were out of sync with the… — Jim Cymbala

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2,144 authors contributed a total of 3,251 Century Quotes, led by these top contributors:

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