Best Century Thoughts
3251 Century quotes by 2144 unique authors
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Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid…
— Rick Perry
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Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing…
— Winston Churchill
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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been…
— Alan Dean Foster
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At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure…
— Gerard Arpey
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
— John Berger
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Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the…
— Orson Scott Card
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Women have been doing very, very strange things for centuries. I mean ancient Egyptians were already doing that, but I don't necessarily judge people who…
— Cate Blanchett
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The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those…
— John F. Kennedy
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America has never forgotten - and will never forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the…
— Bernard Baruch
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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
— Norman Mailer
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The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three…
— Bertrand Russell
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His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura…
— William S. Burroughs
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For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.
— Hippolyte Taine
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To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.
— Chris Brogan
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In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw, interpolated nothing, and…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all…
— Immanuel Kant
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This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis…
— Winston Churchill
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It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has…
— Francois Mauriac
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Since Christ is the only way to the Father, in order to highlight His living and saving presence in the Church and the world, the…
— Pope John Paul II
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In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer…
— Li Ka-shing
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I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
— Mark Twain
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Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
— Patty Duke
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You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is one thing -…
— Rajneesh
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