Best Century Wisdom
3251 Century quotes by 2144 unique authors
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All the great masters in the world have been saying only one thing down the centuries, "Have your own mind and have your own individuality.…
— Rajneesh
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
— James A. Michener
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We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used…
— Herbert Hoover
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From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as…
— R. D. Laing
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Together, we could open up government and invite citizens in, while connecting all of America to 21st century broadband. We could use technology to help…
— Barack Obama
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I will set big goals for this country as president - some so large that the technology to reach them does not yet exist.""I will…
— Barack Obama
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Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ.
— Max Lucado
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One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.
— Henri Michaux
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Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete…
— Ron Kind
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The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic…
— Stephen Hawking
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There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the…
— Rene Dubos
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The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.
— Nicholas Negroponte
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The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to…
— John Naisbitt
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What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
— Dale Carnegie
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We are to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of…
— Desmond Morris
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In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.
— David McCullough
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The real people nation have for centuries had the practice at birth of speaking the same first phrase to all newborns. Each person hears the…
— Marlo Morgan
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In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this…
— John Herschel
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Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved…
— Thomas Sowell
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The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but…
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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