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• The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural… — John Berger
• Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share… — Abdallah II
• I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the… — Christiane Amanpour
• I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century. — Werner Heisenberg
• The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
• The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot… — Aharon Appelfeld
• When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy,… — Huston Smith
• The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community -- are… — Peter Kropotkin
• The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could… — Eric Hobsbawm
• Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in… — Ben Hecht
• The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect… — Ben Hecht
• There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political… — Hannah

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