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The thing is, with century breaks, maximums, ranking tournaments, these sorts of things are automatically going to be broken: it's not if but when. Stephen Hendry
Broken Ranking Tournaments Sort Going Automatically Breaks Century Thing Things
During the 19th century, Iranians lost vast territories in disastrous wars, and corrupt monarchs sold everything of value in the country to foreigners. Stephen Kinzer
Value Country Lost Sold Everything Corrupt Vast Disastrous Territories Foreigners Iranians Century Wars Monarchs
The Smithsonian should box and preserve Tim McGraw's Nashville den for a future exhibit entitled 'Early 21st Century American Man Cave.' Stephen Rodrick
Future Man Entitled Smithsonian Box Tim Exhibit Nashville Den Cave American Century Should Early Preserve
One can make the case that the New York venture capital industry is rooted in the 21st century, not the 20th. Steve Blank
Case New Make Venture Venture Capital Industry York New York Century Capital Rooted
Following its recognition as a state in 1832, Greece spent most of the remainder of the 19th century under the control of creditors. The pattern started with a default in 1832. In consequence, Greece's finances were put under French administration. Steve Hanke
Control State Spent Finances Recognition Administration Following Put Most French Were Greece Pattern Century Default Creditors Started Consequence
If Charlie Sheen is the 21st century figure most closely associated with 'Winning,' it is perhaps time to consider an alternative to victory. Steve Rushin
Time Victory Consider Charlie Charlie Sheen Winning Perhaps Most Sheen Alternative Closely Century Figure Associated
For most of the twentieth century, a Minnesotan abroad could fix his home state in the cosmos by invoking for his hosts the name Charles Lindbergh or Bob Dylan, native sons who were claimed by the world and never really returned to the Gopher State. Steve Rushin
Home World State Claimed Charles Cosmos Abroad Could Never Hosts Sons Name Invoking Most Returned Were His Fix Native Dylan Century Bob Bob Dylan Really Who Home State Twentieth Twentieth Century
Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that. Steven Chu
Me State Three-Quarters Could Higher Meter Go Up Than Official Probability Prediction Century Much Sea Reasonable Levels
The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time. Steven Sinofsky
Time Needs Business Culture First Half Revolution Marked Defined Industrial Industrial Revolution Modern Capabilities Century Created Organizations Derived Large-Scale Start
I think fashion is the best value way, the most affordable way in the 21st century, that men and women can express their personality. Stuart Rose
Best Fashion Women Personality Value Men Men And Women Think Way Most Affordable Century Express
Knowledge is gender neutral, and hence the 21st century offers a great opportunity to level the gender inequity of the last thousand years in India. Subramanian Swamy
Great Knowledge Opportunity Gender Thousand India Thousand Years Great Opportunity Neutral Inequity Years Offers Century Hence Level Last
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it. Sue Monk Kidd
Women Speak Gender Broke Out Abolition About Entwined Got Very Wanted Race Century Then Right
The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore. Sugata Mitra
Education Our System Indian Empire Like Schools Does Still Exist Bureaucratic Anymore Victorian Century Produce Designed
Bollywood directors are like cricketers where in one match you score a century, and in the next match, you are out for a duck! Moreover, very few directors are consistent in Bollywood. Sunny Deol
You Few Consistent Out Directors Moreover Like Match Duck Score Very Where Century Next Bollywood
How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally. Susan George
Democracy People Problem Our Tried Faced How Get Same Essentially Century International International Level Now Internationally Level Need
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas. Susan George
Society Run Darwinian Crude Economy Ideas Trying Century Competitive
I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it. Susanna Clarke
Home Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Feel Am Leave Very Century Much Inclined Early
In the middle of the 20th century, aspirations to sound 'proper' were passionately pursued. Dictionaries as late as the Seventies include many pronunciations that could cut the proverbial glass. Susie Dent
Late Seventies Proper Could Pursued Glass Sound Passionately Proverbial Were Dictionaries Middle Century Cut Aspirations Many Include
As dialect began to be collected in the late 19th century, such words as Yorkshire's 'gobslotch' emerged, revealing the burgeoning association between gluttony and stupidity. Susie Dent
Words Stupidity Late Collected Emerged Between Revealing Dialect Gluttony Began Yorkshire Century Association
The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century. Sylvia Earle
Long Before Fishing End Commercial Middle Predicted Century
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost. Sylvia Earle
Time History Ocean Lost Has-Been About More Since Learnt Been Than Same Human Same Time Middle Century Human History
Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old. Taj Mahal
Music Old Mind Like Very Century Old Music
I started doing organizing work as a teenager. I was part of an organization called the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement at 14. Tarana Burke
Work Leadership Youth Organization Teenager Part Doing Movement Century Organizing Started
Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century. Tariq Ali
Politics War Great Integrity Generation World Revolution Ralph Russian He Almost Intellectual Left-Wing Dominated Formed Century Socialist Socialists Second Belonged World War Second World War
The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time. Tariq Ramadan
Time Day Needs Religion Challenges Intelligence Those Responding Must Atheists Spirit Sacred Study Sharpen Deal Real Questions Texts Timeless Just Order Century Who Conscience Presence Thinkers
When it comes to real time, Twitter is dominant, and for me, I really view Twitter as one of the most revolutionary companies of the century. Ted Bailey
Time Me Twitter Most Real Dominant Revolutionary Real Time Century Really View Companies
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