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During the 20th century, the greatest danger to European stability was Germany's sense of its special destiny. During the 21st century, the greatest danger to European stability is Germany's reluctance to accept its special destiny. John Lanchester

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For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career. John Lothrop Motley

Outward Longer Still Nations Form Rome Century Full Now Career

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away. John Lothrop Motley

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But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate. John M. McHugh

Service Challenges Communicate Key Postal Postal Service Faces Fact How Still Traditional Affairs Conduct American American Businesses Place Land Century Across Businesses Chairman Cog

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property. John Moody

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Miz & Morrison, 'The Greatest Tag Team of the 21st Century,' was fun because Miz and I have great comedic chemistry for backstage segments and our Internet show, 'The Dirt Sheet.' John Morrison

Great Internet Chemistry Our Backstage Segments Tag Dirt Comedic Sheet Because Greatest Century Show Team Fun

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders. John P. Kotter

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Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates. John Pilger

Service Sense Believe Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Classic Imperialist Simply Days Mission Were Pirates Same Literally Public Century European Public Service Believed

Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century. John Podhoretz

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If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in fact, the most banal and naive cliches dug out of second-rate movements of the late 19th century. John Ralston Saul

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What nobody wants to discuss is whether or not the black-and-white argument about trade - you're either a free trader or you're a protectionist - is the right one. It's the old 19th century argument. John Ralston Saul

You Old Free Argument Right One About Nobody Trade Trader Discuss Wants Whether Either Century Right

Grand economic theories rarely last more than a few decades. Some, if they are particularly in tune with technological or political events, may make it to half a century. Beyond that, little short of military force can keep them in place. John Ralston Saul

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I met Harry Thomason when I signed on with 20th Century Fox in 1985. John Ritter

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I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. John Templeton

Science People Will Field Back Our Toward Look Same Pity Centuries Century Us Really Convinced Descendants Now Two

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century. John Thorn

Myself Game Events Made Worrisome Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Clear Century Chain

In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon. John Tyler Bonner

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By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as Syrtis Major, a dark patch thought to be a shallow sea. John Updike

Dark Thought Enough Visible Mars Shallow Features Had Polar Major Make Patch Improved Ice Century Sea Caps Growing Shrinking

I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves. Jon Meacham

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In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community. Jon Porter

Community States Percent Winners Fact Nobel Nobel Prize Been Prize Representatives In Fact Century United United States Jewish Jewish Community

I think ceramics are so amazing because they're incredibly educational - you can buy something made in the 14th century, and it looks like it was made yesterday. There's something to be learned there, and ceramics can tell you the history of the time because they're functional vessels, ultimately. Jonathan Anderson

The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me. Jonathan Coe

Me You Think Books Guy Writer He Feel Most Felt Does Said Affinity Century Who Novels Henry

'Rent' is about a community celebrating life in the face of death and AIDS at the turn of the century. Jonathan Larson

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