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The debate at the end of this century is not going to be about whether the market should be regulated centrally, or left free-rein, it's going to be about who is in control -- the parliament or the stock exchange,

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.

We want the Y2K problem to be the last crisis of the 20th century and not the first crisis of the 21st century.

The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility.

The existing state law is far too limiting and confusing. We need to bring our laws into the 21st century and recognize that there is a distinct difference between a sit-down restaurant and a nightclub.

What we're trying to do is mix an 18th century building with 21st century building technology.

This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.

This century is going to be a very dangerous century.

This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

for centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new ...

Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.

We all lived in this century, I didn't live in this century,

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles.

Welcome back to the 19th Century in Erie County,

While researching design, I was inspired globally, from Peru to Turkey to Africa to Japan-from the 5th century through to today.

We asked for a meeting to help them understand it is not rocket science in the 21st century to manage 2 million people in two weeks.

We have first century A.D. blue Roman fresco with birds and leaves and gardens that my mother and I love, and we found it in Switzerland. A similar period piece is a fresco fragment with Cupid , such a little angel.

There has not been a time in the last century where there has been so much misunderstanding of the US and so much misunderstanding by the US of the world,

There is a certain attitude, I think, in China that ... we the Chinese were misused by the West, by the outside world, for well over a century and sort of the outside world owes it to us.

We think the deal we proposed is an extremely good one. This is the deal of a century for us and Bangladesh.

Why does the U.S. subsidize three industries of the 19th century and no industries of the 21st century?

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We had a 19th century valve, and I guess we needed 21st century technology to get it out of there.

We believe that affordable access to the Internet will help us do so. To be a city of the 21st century you need to have your populace able to use Internet.

We believe such a requirement would constitute nothing less than a 21st century poll tax.

Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Without this edition, eighteen of Shakespeare's plays including some of his most famous like Macbeth, The Tempest and other plays would have been lost for all time. It's the only surviving source for eighteen of Shakespeare's plays. With regard to this particular copy of the first folio, it's remarkable because it's preserved in it's original seventeenth century binding. There's no other copy in the world in private hands preserved in a seventeenth century binding complete with all it's text leaves.

This will finally bring us up to the 20th century and also create opportunities for our youth to gain life-long skills in the area of technology.

While his death was not unexpected, it's a serious blow to the entire theatrical community in the United States and Pittsburgh in particular. August Wilson is one of the seminal figures of 20th century dramatic art. When we speak of Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, we will now add the name of August Wilson to that pantheon.

fine wines, jewelry, Western furniture, and 19th century paintings.

Both parties have a great opportunity -- and a great risk. One of the two parties is going to be the party that brings the country into the 21st century . . . and you can't say today which party will win that battle.

The good news is that evidence is becoming more persuasive that our electronic infrastructure will be ready for the Century Date Change, ... The public's understanding of the degree of our Y2K readiness also has grown, and fears of widespread disruptions around the CDC appear to be waning, though we are not as yet home free.

The good news in some ways is that we seem to be attractive to young families with kids. The problem is the people coming in tend to have less capital at their disposal. They're less educated. They're more likely to work in 20th century as opposed to 21st century jobs.

We're talking about species whose generation time, which is the amount of time (they need) to replace themselves, is 17 to 21 years. So it will be a century before we see any recovery.

We need to rethink how we design and conduct clinical trials in the United States. Our current system has served us well for the past 50 years, but the demands of 21st century medicine are beginning to put a strain on the current system, and we believe we have something to relieve that strain.

Transcending stereotypes was difficult, ... Often people don't want to know what was true. They want to know what is attractive. The fact of the matter is, no one in the mid-19th century here was using Oriental rugs; they were using wall-to-wall carpet.

We wanted to do something that was a little closer to our own century and yet also was a world in which you could believe that people spoke in a slightly different way.

We've had a good century of developing terrestrial protected areas, national parks on land,

Up until the mid-19th century serving refreshments and socializing on the stoops was done by every income group all over the city,

We have a far greater number of historic houses than 20th century houses.

This was the 19th Century equivalent of man landing on the moon.

We cannot ignore the fact that spending by inbound tourists to Britain has not risen in any significant way in the past quarter of a century and everyone in the public and private sector needs to address that.

Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.

TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives; it's like a marriage.

We don't require our astronomers to explore the heavens with 19th century telescopes, and we don't require our geologists to study the Earth with a tape measure. If we are serious about realizing the promise of stem cell research, our biomedical researchers need access to the best stem cell lines available.

Whatever we know about him is probably true. Whatever we hear about him is probably true. That he is one of the great lovers of the 20th century or a tryster is certainly a fact. And that's obvious. I don't think he would hide that. ... But that gives me no problem with the guy. Hey, we're men.

What the 21st century will be like depends on whether we learn the lessons of the 20th century and avoid repeating its worst mistakes - For example, it would be disastrous if we began to renew our entire system of social relations by acting like a bu

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

Total is a terrific brand, but it's been starved for marketing support. It's not what it was in the 20th century when it was a strong power brand for Big G. It doesn't go head to head with any competition, but it was one of the pillars of the adult-cereal portfolio.

Warfare in the 21st century is far less deadly than it was half a century ago. The wars that dominated the headlines of the 1990s were real -- and brutal -- enough. But the global media have largely ignored the 100-odd conflicts that have quietly ended since 1988. During this period, more wars stopped than started.

Boys & Girls Clubs across the nation have had a positive impact on the lives of children for the last 100 years. The changes that have taken place in the clubs, even in the past decade, have been amazing to witness, so to think about what these clubs will look like in the next century is hard to imagine. I'm excited to see what our kids have come up with.

Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.

Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.

Every cock will crow upon his own dunghill. -mid 13th; 1st century AD in Latin

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Diane thought we should have the farm named a Century Farm. We really didn't want to go through it. We did it for her.

Creativity is an important part of modern teaching and learning. It made sense to take their idea and upgrade it using emerging twenty-first century technology.

An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended toward global engagement. It is during times of economic stress (1930s, 1970s) that America has become more withdrawn.

Encountering a man in 19th century clothing a pipe, he didn't talk, no smoke was coming from his pipe, but he quietly acknowledged the people. The people then brought that to our attention of a staff person on the main deck, and no, there wouldn't be somebody down there at that point.

Edgeworth has been the foremost economist in England during the latter part of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

Each type of industry was on the march toward the West, impelled by an irresistible attraction. Each passed in successive waves across the continent. Stand at Cumberland Gap and watch the procession of civilization, marching single file-- the buffalo following the trail to the salt springs, the Indian, the fur trader and hunter, the cattle-raiser, the pioneer farmer --and the frontier has passed by. Stand at South Pass in the Rockies a century later and see the same procession with wider intervals between.

Essentially what happened was that quantitatively we had our fingers on the pulse of the global oceans for the first time in history. We collected more data in the first year than they had in the previous century of data.

During the past century the doctrine of the blank slate has set the agenda for much of the social sciences and humanities, ... ... Psychology has sought to explain all thought, feeling, and behavior with a few simple mechanisms of learning.

Farms as a whole are going away at an alarming rate. Any farm that is eliminated for one reason or another is significant, and being a Century Farm adds to it.

There's not one artist who hasn't been influenced by Picasso somewhere in their lifetime, if only to vault over him as this massive figure. You can't be in the 20th century and not be influenced by Picasso in some way or another.

Islam is not just for the seventh century AD. Times have changed. Whether we like it or not, we have to change,

I've been waiting, like, a quarter of century to be a quarter of a century, can you believe it?

The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; not always easy to do. But it's a good slogan, I think.

The rule we will be publishing today represents the first major overhaul of the format and content or prescribing information in 25 years. With this step, the FDA believes we are driving into the information age, out of the 20th century and into the 21st century. These changes will not only enable better access to paper information but will enable the revolution in electronic prescribing information.

I've put up a timeline that covers the first century of Snohomish County, that goes from 1855 to 1955, ... We talk about the changing history of the county, as well as the nation and the world.

It would be difficult to tell the story of the 20th century without discussing the many contributions made by this legendary, iconic artist. It didn't take Americans and the rest of the world long to discover Elvis Presley... and it is absolutely clear that they will never forget him.

These efforts are another important step to improve IT effectiveness and efficiency, ensuring veterans continue to receive 21st century health care.

The stock market continues to react to John Q. Public. We used to watch century marks in the Dow. Now we watch millenniums.

The St. James is a great example of history meeting high-rise luxury. This winning property incorporated four existing eighteenth century buildings into a residential skyscraper that has changed its city's skyline.

The secret of the 21st century is attract a lot of smart people to focus on problems that you think are important.

The Smithsonian should box and preserve Tim McGraw's Nashville den for a future exhibit entitled 'Early 21st Century American Man Cave.'

The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.

The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.

The things he does with the elementary school students are phenomenal. Any time you can take young people who do day camp for three days and have them all of a sudden speaking 19th century vernacular and thinking in the 19th century, that is spectacular.

I've already begun to put pilot programs in place that give CUNY grads opportunities to get good tech jobs. We should expand on that so that New Yorkers are getting those jobs, because those jobs are probably one of the biggest 21st Century pathways into the middle class.

I've always believed that government tends to screw up whatever it touches, but Obama in particular seemed different. He understood tech issues that left the other candidates bewildered. Part of it may be his age. But whatever the reason, I had real hope that he could help lead us into a new century of technology leadership and growth.

I wanted to create the ambiance of a garden. In the 17th century this probably would have been a reception hall for important people, but I even put in a sink for cutting and arranging flowers. I think it's where the nuns used to keep their toiletries.

I want a party that looks to the future. A party that is a 21st century party, that is modern and compassionate and understands the aspirations and hopes and dreams of the people.

Somewhere in the twentieth century we stopped regarding children as property and started seeing them as people.

Technological revolution that we witnessed in the last century has gone so far for our human moral to catch up with.

Sam Walton established a mantra: the store manager must every year increase sales and reduce labor costs. But that is an oxymoron--they're lowering the prices on the backs of the people who work for them. That is why I spent four months of my life at 71 years old making the point to corporate America that we are not in industrial England anymore. We're in the 21st century and these are good workplace rules, and you've got to obey them.

Sarah Ruhl is fast becoming a major voice in the 21st century American theatre. Having witnessed the transformative effect of her unique and singular plays for over a decade, I have remained fiercely optimistic about the future of American theatre in the century ahead. I eagerly anticipate the transformation of the Arena audience in my own hometown of Washington, D.C.

put an immediate chill on the housing markets and reverse almost a century of housing policy.

Of course you'll live, red-haired lady of my heart: in the twentieth century grief lasts at most a year.

A Europe that can do something like this is a Europe that can win, a Europe that can move into the 21st century with confidence,