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The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that will genuinely address problems of poverty and educational underachievement. Niall Ferguson
People Smart Debate Problems Seriously Will Poverty Design Address About Having Smart People Institutions Genuinely How Educational Interested Century
Anybody looking at the history even of the 20th century would not single out Islam as the bloodthirsty religion; it was Christian/Nazi/Communist Europe and Buddhist/Taoist/Hindu/atheist Asia that set records for mass slaughter. Nicholas Kristof
Religion History Looking Single Islam Out Would Records Mass Anybody Asia Century Europe Even Slaughter Set
The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read. Nicholson Baker
Music Way Had Know Read Around Very Any Going Happen Little Century Realized
We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other. Nick Clegg
Work Will Other Our France Say Draw UK Netherlands Return Condemned Up Germany Anything Century Each Ludicrous
Margaret Thatcher inherited a country in transition. The British Empire was still a considerable entity well into the 20th century. Nick Harkaway
Country Considerable Entity Empire Well Still Thatcher Transition Century Inherited Margaret Margaret Thatcher British British Empire
I think quite a misguided literary culture has grown up in the 20th century that says a book has to have a seriousness of purpose and a seriousness of language. Nick Hornby
Culture Book Language Think Says Purpose Misguided Up Quite Literary Century Seriousness Grown Grown-Up
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness. Nicole Krauss
Time Word Lost Sense Severe Pathology Nostalgia Century Much Used Describe Homesickness
I can't think of a single example of two mature democracies going to war with each other in the 20th century. It's where there was an absence of democracy and a breakdown of democracy that we finish up with these wars. Nigel Farage
War Democracy Example Single Think Other Finish Absence Up Mature Going Where Breakdown Century Wars Each Two
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. Niklas Zennstrom
Time You Technology Change Phone Telephone Phone Calls Charging Something Calls Did Century Last Last Century
We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century,' and yet that's what we're demanding in food production. Nina Fedoroff
Saying Food Me People Doctor Treat Demanding Doctors Think Our Way Going Century Production Treated
We are living in the 21st century, and children are dying of hunger, so how do we fight it? Nita Ambani
Fight Living Hunger How Children Dying Century
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy. Noah Feldman
Democracy First Islam Relation Between Major Question Decade Century International Twenty-First
It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that. Norman Davies
National Ruled Cure National Sovereignty Sovereignty Formed Century Roost Really
In the 21st century, there will probably be a reflex against the disintegration of traditional European culture. What started as a reaction will come full circle, and there will be a return to the roots. Norman Davies
Culture Circle Will Come Reaction Return Traditional Reflex Against Disintegration Century Roots Full European Started
I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way. Norman Lamm
Privacy Legal Law Back Way Implicit Going Century Right Second Third Jewish
The Jews are an artistic people. It's clear from the music, the actors, the writers. They are just artists. In the early part of the 20th century, when they first came over, they had no money, but they still went to theater. The theater and education were the two biggest things in their lives. Norman Lloyd
Education Music People Money First Jews Writers Had Part Clear Over Still Came Were Artistic Just Artists Biggest Theater Biggest Things Century Actor Lives Things Early Two
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. Norman Mailer
Horror New Size Century Twentieth Each Twentieth Century Event
For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom. Octavio Paz
Freedom Man Struggle Generation Political Long Our Favor Has-Been My Generation Been Intellectual Century
I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling. Oliver Stone
Great You Feeling Every Would Would-Be About Scene Feel Like Sort Were Get Where Story Century Ages Medieval
As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination. Pankaj Mishra
Man Political Minority South Africa Beginning Young Moral Indian Small Developed South Discrimination Mode Africa While Against Young Man Century Racial Persuasion Gandhi Twentieth Twentieth Century Activism Based
The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century. Pankaj Mishra
Happiness Progress Political Achieve Power National Military Everyone Astonishing Rapid Economic Idea Greater Makes Western Western Europe Century Successes Europe Helps Enhanced Origins
As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony. Pankaj Mishra
Achieve Innovations Categories Came Truly Norms Century Hegemony Europe Universal
After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century. Pankaj Mishra
India Emerge Indonesia New After Biggest China Century
Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism. Pankaj Mishra
Nation Politicians Weaker Journalism Countries Like Japan Century Help Twentieth Twentieth Century Populist Early Britain
German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature. Pankaj Mishra
First Nationalism Late Prestige Writers French Reaction French Literature Were Dominance German Uphold Literary Literature Century Then
As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties. Pankaj Mishra
Broad Globalisation Forces Century Loyalties Elemental Early
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