First Century Quotes
94 quotes by 88 authors
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The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.
— Ismail Serageldin
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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
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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
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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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This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and…
— Elie Wiesel
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Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious…
— Frances Perkins
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Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we…
— William J. Clinton
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We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a…
— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.
— Chris Brogan
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Humanity may destroy the possibilities for life on earth unless the freedom and power that we have acquired are channeled in new creative directions by…
— Steven Clark Rockefeller
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There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is…
— Howard Zinn
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As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was…
— Richard M. Nixon
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More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of…
— Michelle Alexander
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The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How will cities survive…
— Greg Nickels
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Many things shaped my identity as a young boy: a strong selfworth (something that was instilled in all three Barrowman siblings by our parents), my…
— John Barrowman
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Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is...…
— Sheryl WuDunn
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All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile,
— Greg Bear
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
— Andre Malraux
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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
— Nikola Tesla
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