Twenty First Quotes
90 Twenty First quotes by 82 unique authors
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It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive…
— Diane Wood
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It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of…
— Dalai Lama
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I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.
— Bill Ford
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It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.
— Robert D. Kaplan
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The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.
— Chuck Hagel
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Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies…
— Stuart L. Hart
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Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new…
— Irina Bokova
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Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major…
— Freeman Dyson
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It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be…
— Freeman Dyson
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What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together?…
— Eric Liu
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When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
— Alexander McQueen
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Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed…
— Rob Sheffield
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I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.
— Kevin Smith
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If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights…
— Sam Harris
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The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by…
— Eric Schlosser
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Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first…
— Arundhati Roy
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In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus) Then it’s a good thing we’re in the twenty-first century and…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What’s the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?” “That would be Antarctica,” Zia said. “A punishment assignment.…
— Rick Riordan
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Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute." "Billy", the teacher cried. "This is the twenty-first century,…
— Michael Buckley
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You know who you remind me of? The kid cop in Lethal Weapon 3. You know, the one who says, 'it's my twenty-first birthday today',…
— Jennifer Crusie
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This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis.…
— Matt Taibbi
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The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical…
— Walter Isaacson
Who Wrote These Twenty First Quotes
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