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While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st. Pat Buchanan
World Free Saw Define East Struggles Divided Between New Democratic West Different While Century Communist
Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea? Pat Buchanan
War Cold Cold War Troops Korea Still Quarter After Century Why
In 21st century America, capitalism has been unfettered from the regulations that democratized it and made it serve society. Paul Craig Roberts
Capitalism Made Society Has-Been Been America Unfettered Century Regulations Serve
There's a sort of eternal, indefinable 20th century quality to 'BTAS.' We never really pegged the decade, but it's anytime in the 20th century, so I often harkened back to things from the '40s or '50s. Paul Dini
Quality Back Indefinable Never Sort Decade Often Anytime Eternal Century Really Things
Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of July not only with exploding powder and shimmering flares, but with all of our senses. Paul Engle
War Revolution Every Our Soldiers Kids Only Powder July American Heavy Senses Century Exploding American Revolution Fought Early Fourth
There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant. Paul Kantner
Too Pleasant Those About Something Odd Were Decades Century Thing
The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration, the Second World War, which divided the continent until the end of the century. Paul Keating
War Heart World First Destroyed Only Civilisation Divided Empires Until First World First World War Continent Led End Aftermath Which Century European Second World War Second World War
I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on. Paul Muldoon
Ninth Poetry French Read Lot Irish Century
The great challenge of the 21st century is to provide good standards of living for 7 billion people without depleting the earth's resources or running up massive levels of public debt. To achieve this, government and business alike will need to find new models of growth that are in both environmental and economic balance. Paul Polman
Environmental Government Good Great Business Balance People Achieve Challenge Will Living Resources Earth Alike Running Find Both Economic New Massive Without Provide Up Debt Models Public Century Standards Billion Growth Levels Need
I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one. Paul Watson
Environmental Time Me Heroes Keys Honorary One Thing Magazine Some Never Like Got Proud Am Won Get Did Oh The One Thing Republic Century Award Awards Thing Florida
One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st century, in a dramatically altered world with new heavyweights, and that Germany benefits from the continued integration of Europe in political, economic and societal ways. And, of course, that means the Germans will have to pay. Peer Steinbruck
People World Benefits Political Will Pay Dramatically Ways Both Economic New Altered Course Answer Continue Integration Germans Germany Form Heavyweight Explain Century Means EU Europe Societal
Wireless is the largest information, communication, and technology platform in history, and mobile broadband is transforming how we can deliver educational materials and experiences to all students. The technology now exists to support learning on a massive scale and advance the 21st century skills needed to compete in the global economy. Peggy Johnson
History Technology Learning Communication Broadband Scale Deliver Students Wireless Advance Support Economy Global Global Economy Massive How Materials Educational Mobile Exists Experiences Information Transforming Century Skills Platform Now Largest Compete Needed
Access to the Internet is an essential tool for equipping students with 21st century skills. Peggy Johnson
Internet Tool Students Access Essential Century Skills
Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience. Penn Jillette
Late Tremendously Magic Audience American Modern Century Disrespectful
For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show. Penn Jillette
Reality Better Worse Variety Reality Shows Century Show Shows
Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals. Peter Ackroyd
Today Health People Money Worried Find Kings About More Generals Supposed Queens Than Interesting Century Much Activities
This year, 1996, has been designated the 'Year of the Vaccine,' commemorating the 200th anniversary of Edward Jenner's vaccination of James Phipps with cowpox virus and subsequent challenge with smallpox virus. Insight into the nature of viruses, and how viruses interact with mammalian cells, has evolved since the turn of the century. Peter C. Doherty
Nature Challenge Year Virus Viruses Has-Been Evolved Insight Smallpox Anniversary Since How Been Edward Subsequent Cells Interact James Turn Century Vaccination Vaccine
Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century. Peter Garrett
Change Relation Those Emissions Delivering Clearly Look Most Obvious Arrangement Climate Climate Change Equitable Very Done Middle Century Urgently Cuts Deep Things Need
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said. Peter Lewis Allen
Library First Research Though Ancient See Had Takes Renaissance Mostly Said Foremost Lab Place Century Researchers Twentieth Twentieth Century Medical Medical Research
Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century. Peter Lindbergh
Women Beginning Tool Heartless Represent In The Beginning Century Should Chosen
I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order. Peter York
Life Great First Out Study Journalism New Like French Am Cling Get Order Fan Laid Century Tom Novelists Basic Set
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.' Petra Kelly
Generation Impossible Add Solemn Faced Faces Shall Unthinkable Century Next Injunction
Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America. Phil Gramm
Made Every States Throughout Advance Come America Century United United States United States Of America Technological
I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen to most is piano music from the 18th, 19th and 20th century. Russian music in particular. Philip Pullman
Love Music Great World Jazz Types Music World Folk Folk Music Russian Piano Particular Most Listen Century Pop Pop Music World Music
My traducers propound my alleged malefaction as though I have spewed venom on women for half a century. But only a madman would go to the trouble of writing 31 books in order to affirm his hatred. Philip Roth
Women Writing Hatred Trouble Half Books Though Would Madman Alleged Only Venom Go His Affirm Order Century
I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go. Philip Treacy
World Design Promote Over Go Irish Representative Wherever Century
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