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I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth. Leonard Susskind
Technology Man Welcome Balance Back Bit Would Restaurant Tables Device Piece Rock Am Caught Afraid Legs Automatically Century Forth Twenty-First Four
As astronauts know better than anyone else, risks, incidents, and mishaps are inevitable in the development of any high-performance vehicle. The emergence of supersonic flight during the 1940s and of the Century Series of fighters in the 1950s came with the loss of several test pilots. Still, it was a glorious time. Leroy Chiao
Time Risks Better Glorious Inevitable Else Several Astronauts Emergence Vehicle Development Know Still Test Came Pilots Loss Than Any Anyone Anyone Else Century Fighters Flight Incidents Series
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish. Leslie Fiedler
Poet Like Know Read Anybody Middle Wanting Centuries Century Next Should
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. Lewis Mumford
Today Progress Single Seems Parochial Perhaps Most Limit Without Line Goal Very Century Notion
We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way. Lewis Thomas
Good Nature Witness Too Much Meddling Think Too Waters Our Way Since Countryside Most Until Smoked Dumped Up Privilege Behave Littered Century Then Much Engage European Many Preservation
Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy. Li Keqiang
Politics People World Will Important Become Believe More Particular Economy Global Global Economy Important Role Role Asia Century Engine Many World Economy Play
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century. Li Peng
Conflict Half Has-Been More Outstanding Issue Been Historical Legacy Than Century Kashmir
At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation. Li Peng
Friendship Trust People Understanding Beginning Mutual Mutual Understanding Develop Countries New Common Century Aspiration Enhance Cooperation Deepen Strengthen Two
I was born and spent my first five years in Chester, an ancient city that retains some of its Roman walls and fortifications and contains a great medieval cathedral, as well as Tudor, Stuart and early 19th century architecture. Visiting these things was free, and my parents - who had little money - made the most of this. Linda Colley
Great Architecture Money Walls Made Free Parents First Spent Ancient Visiting City Some Born Stuart Had Contains Most Cathedral Well Years Five Roman Little Century Little Money Who Things Early Medieval
Monarchs, aristocrats, and other powerful and wealthy individuals have usually been happy to have themselves and their possessions and families immortalised in oil paintings and sculpture. But before the 20th century, such dynasts rarely commissioned artworks that set out to represent society as a whole. Linda Colley
Happy Before Society Other Possessions Out Wealthy Rarely Aristocrat Individuals Powerful Been Families Commissioned Represent Oil Century Themselves Sculpture Whole Paintings Monarchs Set
All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to. Lindsay Pearce
Think Society Others Teens Struggles Generations Century Hard Each Compare
President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve. Lindsey Graham
God Leadership Great Will Resolve President President Bush Ruled Absolutely He Bless Him Said Terrorists His God Bless Dictated Dictators Bush Century Shown Right
We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image. Lionel Shriver
Ugly Mirror Right-Wing Ourselves Paranoia Above Era Left McCarthy Fancy Informing Century Image
The only reason I was allowed to have a career for a quarter century as an insult comic is because it's all in jest and all for fun. Lisa Lampanelli
Only Allowed Because Insult Comic Quarter Quarter Century Century Reason Fun Jest Career
In sum, as we enter the 21st century, the Euro-Atlantic community - North America and Europe together - has to face some tough challenges when it comes to improving our capability. Lord Robertson
Together Challenges Face Tough Community Sum Our Enter Some North North America America Improving Capability Century Europe
I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges. Lord Robertson
Challenges Will Believe Our Entirely New Because Subject Very Timely Conference Discussion Confront Century Us Chosen Set
It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations. Louis Bacon
Future Natural Wonderful Honor National Society Our Resources Future Generations More Environment Generations Protect Than Tirelessly Which Century Natural Resources Medal Fought Receive Preserve
As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time. Louis Begley
Time You Cause Own Enough Our Immediately About Case Could Write Knew Merely Importance Know Understand Greatest Am Greatest Importance End Want Happened Century Us Really Teach Lessons Shown Novelist Novels Event Why
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century. Louis Leakey
Long South Africa Back Record Had Studies South End Going Africa Century Prehistory Last Last Century
Female poets in the 17th century had these very confined, restricted lives. Louisa Hall
Restricted Poets Had Female Very Confined Century Lives
What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great. Louise Mensch
Great You People Challenge Believe Enjoy Every Say Must Tory Stereotype Stereotypes Doing Pathetic Place Century Themselves Then Challenging
I moved to Liverpool in 2012, and they were really ambitious, bringing in top players. In 2013, we beat Arsenal - who seemed invincible - 4-0. It was the shock of the century. Lucy Bronze
Top Seemed Beat Invincible Were Arsenal Ambitious Shock Moved Century Really Who Liverpool Players Bringing
I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference. Ludwig Quidde
History Law Will First Beginning Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Divided Written Hague Periods Am End Times Conference The History Of Being Centuries Century Convinced International International Law Hence Earliest Second Two
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. Lukas Foss
Word Nineteenth Nineteenth Century More Inspiration Idea Began Replace Arts Century Grandiose
In October 2014, for the first time in almost three-quarters of a century, a gray wolf was seen loping along the forested North Rim of the Grand Canyon, in Arizona. She had walked hundreds of miles, probably from Wyoming or Idaho. Lydia Millet
Time Seen First Wolf Hundreds Rim Three-Quarters Had Almost Idaho Arizona Along She First Time October Walked North Grand Grand Canyon Canyon Century Miles Gray
In December 2011, a wild gray wolf set foot in California, the first sighting in almost a century. He'd wandered in from Oregon, looking for a mate. Lydia Millet
First Looking Wolf Wild Foot He Almost California Mate December Wandered Century Oregon Gray Set
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