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Europe has, to put it mildly, been in a poor state since the transition to the 21st century. This is down to national issues, European missteps, and an economic and financial crisis that crashed down on us with enough force to dislodge the essential European idea. Helmut Kohl

I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information. Henning Mankell

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West. Henri Pirenne

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth. Henry Campbell-Bannerman

War You Earth Indeed Give Insistent Shape Since New Began Banished Done May Substance Century Much Growing Desire

You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others. Hermann von Helmholtz

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. Hjalmar Branting

Peace Meetings States Statesmen Would Participating League Most Annual Quarter Effect Official Regarded Century Assembly Binding Utopian Extent

I want to make the conquest of the moon the United States' goal for the 21st century and, through that goal, to make us a great and good and happy country for generations to come. Homer Hickam

Good Great Happy Moon Country States Through Generations Come Make Goal Want Century Us United United States Conquest

Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters. Hu Jintao

Relationship Beginning Thanks President Took Meetings President Obama Sides Telephone Visits Obama Steady Both Both Sides Through Exchange Contact Maintained Since Close Office Efforts Conversations Century Whole Letters Growth Enjoyed

Of course everyone dreams of living in the 17th or the 18th century because of the costumes, but there were so many incommodities. Hubert de Givenchy

Dreams Living Everyone Costumes Course Because Were Century Many

I don't do much acting anymore anyway, and not to work for 20th Century Fox is really the least of my worries. Hugh Grant

Work Worries Least Anymore Anyway Century Much Really Acting Fox

There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it. Hugh Hardy

Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century. Ian Hacking

Science Will Most Brain Century Popular Twenty-First Early

Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while. Ian Mckellen

Hope Business Book People Worth Three Think Rings Taking Most Involved Because Lord Making Lord Of The Rings Comics Very Get Going Anything While Movies Century Realize Translating Really Successful Popular

Right from the 17th century, composers who have taken up music as their means of livelihood went through a hard time financially. They were paid only for commissioned works and public performances. And, when their music became famous, orchestras in other cities and countries would pay a small amount to copy the music. Ilaiyaraaja

Music Time Pay Other Cities Financially Would Composers Only Small Through Taken Performance Countries Became Were Up Commissioned Orchestra Famous Public Century Means Paid Hard Who Works Hard Time Livelihood Right Amount Copy

'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century. Ilan Stavans

World Jews New American New World Century Meant

Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population. Ilan Stavans

Women Communicate Language Later Considered Eastern Eastern Europe Could Write Writers Longer Masses Years Yiddish Children Order Hebrew Century Realized Europe Illiterate Population Originally Needed

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. Isaac Bashevis Singer

Half Complete Century Twentieth Twentieth Century Flop Second

By the early seventeenth century, a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained so unless he was provided with 'education.' Ivan Illich

Education Man Society Unless Born Remained Arise He Idea New Provided Began Century Incompetent Early Consensus

I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy. Izabel Goulart

I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's campaign was obviously not super-appealing to Latino Americans, black Americans and so forth. That really bothered me. J. D. Vance

Any team can have a bad century. Jack Brickhouse

Bad Any Century Team

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century. Jack Welch

Future Strategy GE Investment Wrong Perhaps Couple Dollars Loss Represents China Century Next Billion Billion Dollars Company Right

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