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You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse. Tori Amos
You Technology Age Made Think Out Would Tackle Abuse How Discoveries Century Figure
Before Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th Century, 'mystery religions,' organized around a central canon of secret knowledge, were widespread. Membership in such religions was limited to people who had passed through secret initiation rituals and had begun to learn a body of hidden knowledge. Trevor Paglen
Religion Knowledge People Before Christianity Secret Hidden Membership Religions Mystery Through Rituals Had Empire Learn Became Around Limited Passed Were Begun Official Roman Canon Central Century Body Organized Who Initiation Widespread
I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore. Tucker Max
You Lie People Internet Beauty Think About Were Anymore Century Media
I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren. Twyla Tharp
Find Hopelessly Aesthetic Century Barren
There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism. Twyla Tharp
Time Difficult Imagination Components Had Because Ballets Tradition Romantic Modernism Century Many Difficult Time
I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century. Valentina Tereshkova
Trend Will Stations Mir Structure Main Development Am Century Manned Next Convinced
I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low. Vicente Fox
Extremely Say Has-Been Tried Per Percent Development Alternatives Losers Been Mexico Different Unfortunately Low Poor Century Should Many Population Income Things
Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world. Victor Davis Hanson
World Nation Most Still America Century Even Third
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. Victor Hugo
Great Man Liberty Great Man Only Great Thing Napoleon Been Want Century Us Let Us Thing
The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs. Vint Cerf
Internet Become Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Jobs Thousands Allowing Economy Global Reach Click Audience Motors Mouse Century Us Creating Businesses Millions
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. Virchand Gandhi
Great Religion You Christ Christianity Changed Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Has-Been Worthy All Religions Religions Corrupted Purify Except Name Know Doctrines Return Surely Making Been Efforts Taught Century Standpoint Original Now
I never thought of breaking a record. The only ambition I had was to become the fastest century maker for India, which I did when I broke Azharuddin's record. Virender Sehwag
Thought Become Ambition Broke India Record Only Never Had Maker Did Which Breaking Century Fastest
I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left. Vivienne Westwood
Environmental People Problem Will Thought Writes Had Always How Left End James Urgent Century Realized Billion
The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments in the first decade of the 21 century confirmed that it was a particularly significant and timely step. Vladimir Putin
First Signed Significant India Russia Step Between Developments Particularly Partnership Became October Truly Historic Timely Decade Confirmed Declaration Century Strategic
In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated. Vladimir Putin
Made Long Lesson State Run See Totally Cost Absolute Long Run Nobody Economy Sure Am Dearly Repeated Role Soviet Soviet Union Wants Century Us Union
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois
Problem Color Line Century Twentieth Twentieth Century
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor. Walter Murch
Today You Writing Word Stronger Immediacy Those Respond Pens Dipping Feather Writer Take Written Piece Goose Wrote Read Than Quill Any Want Anything Sensitive Them Century Novels Ink
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. Walter Pater
Great Rather Renaissance Achieved Century Fifteenth Then Many Things Designed
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. Walter Pater
Religion Made Christianity Complete Ancient Reconcile Some Attempt Scholars Renaissance Without Italian Account Greece Century Fifteenth Notice Certain
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object. Walter Pater
Art Age Everything Religious Object Impassioned Ardent Pursuit Had Which Century Fifteenth Serious Ad Consecrated
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future. Wayne Swan
Future You Path Energy Clean Clean Energy Economy Century
Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century. Wellington Mara
Life Nature Beginning Universe Determine Had Taken True Also Well True Nature Human Just Centuries Century Human Life Search
The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development. Wendell Pierce
Justice Economic Development Economic Development Movement Social Century Social Justice
I would love to do an anthology show based on the character of Jesse B. Semple that Langston Hughes wrote about. He's sort of a Forrest Gump character in the midst of 20th century Harlem. Wendell Pierce
Love Character Would About He Wrote Sort Anthology Hughes Midst Century Show Based Harlem
Bohr's influence on the physics and the physicists of our century was stronger than that of anyone else, even than that of Albert Einstein. Werner Heisenberg
Physics Stronger Else Our Physicists Than Influence Anyone Anyone Else Einstein Century Even Albert Albert Einstein
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. Werner Herzog
Think Major Psychology Century Twentieth Twentieth Century
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