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It saddens me that in the 21st century, with all our knowledge and power, we are hearing more and more stories of possible extinctions due to people's choice. We are responsible for our choices and the only ones capable of changing our future. Gisele Bundchen

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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. Gore Vidal

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Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. Greg Egan

About Caffeine Lot Explains Century Use Twentieth Twentieth Century Widespread

Indeed, the history of 20th century physics was in large measure about how to avoid the infinities that crop up in particle theory and cosmology. The idea of point particles is convenient but leads to profound, puzzling troubles. Gregory Benford

History Physics Indeed Cosmology Crop About Point Troubles Idea Puzzling Leads Particle Particles How Up Convenient The History Of Century Measure Avoid Theory Large Large Measure Profound

I was a kid when I read Jane Eyre and fell in love with that universe. I didn't have the acumen to say the prose is old or the prose is too complex. I just fell in love with Jane's very lonely soul, much the same way I fell in love with Frankenstein's creature for the same reason. Those old souls exist in every decade in every century. Guillermo del Toro

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Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day. Guy Davenport

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In 1936, John Maynard Keynes predicted the 'euthanasia of the rentier' before the end of the 20th century. It did not happen. Guy Standing

Before John End Did Happen Predicted Century Euthanasia

The income distribution system constructed in the 20th century has broken down, and it will not come back. Guy Standing

Broken Will Down Back System Distribution Constructed Come Century Income

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. H. G. Wells

Perception Intervening Ought Something Rely Attempt Between Come Comfortable Years Done Century Fifty England Serious

To me, the puzzle of Ronald Reagan is how a comparatively ordinary man, someone with not extraordinary talent, accomplished such extraordinary results. At the age of 50, no one expected that this was going to be the guy who would become, at least in my interpretation, one of the two most important presidents of the 20th century. H. W. Brands

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People who teach American history survey classes have a lot of ground to cover and tend to focus on landmarks. You get through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and you have to get to the beginning of the 20th century fast. It's pretty easy to go lightly on the Gilded Age. H. W. Brands

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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...' Ha-Joon Chang

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Iceland is a rich country, but in the early 21st century, this prosperity got to our heads, and in 2008, it collapsed. Hallgrimur Helgason

Prosperity Country Rich Our Collapsed Heads Got Iceland Century Early

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do? Hanif Kureishi

Work Me Language Understanding Philosophical Seemed Come Terms Does How Real Were Where Breakthroughs Century

I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature. Hans-Ulrich Obrist

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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses. Hanya Yanagihara

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era. Harold Bloom

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It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe. Harry Reid

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber. Harry Seidler

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you. Harry Shearer

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I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill. Hayao Miyazaki

Love Art Great Better Wish Some Had Feel Lack Just Artists Them Century Much Skill Compared Technique

In America, we have 19th century school conditions and a curriculum that prepares our kids for the 1990s. Heidi Hayes Jacobs

School Our Kids Conditions America Curriculum Century Prepares

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it. Helen Reddy

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