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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
I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by… — Mavis Gallant
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be. — Andre Malraux
The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London,… — Gene Baur
Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want… — Zell Miller
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided… — Zoltan Kodaly
Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed! — Herbert Hoover
Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order… — Diana Ross
I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose… — Samuel Johnson
In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours. — Joseph J. Romm
Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere. — Joseph J. Romm
If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder. — Unknown Author
When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so it's this crazy… — Francesco Clemente
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and… — Thomas A. Edison
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. — Nikola Tesla
Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first. — Carl Yastrzemski
When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me. — Scott Joplin
The coach's job is twenty percent technical and training, and eighty per cent inspirational. He may know all there is to know about tactics, technique… — Franz Stampfl
Watching Michael Jackson was like taking a history lesson and a lesson on the future at the same time. If that weren’t enough, Michael then… — Marcus Miller
Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to… — Joseph Pulitzer
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when… — P.J. O'Rourke
It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali… — P.J. O'Rourke
There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable...in large part,… — P.J. O'Rourke
If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must be an enriching,… — Frederick Hart
I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr.… — Dizzy Dean

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