270 Quotes About Century

  • Author Shinzo Abe
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    My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost.

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  • Author Spencer Abraham
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    This confirmation is also a victory for the nominee, President Bush, and, most of all, the U.S. Senate. Finally, it is a victory for the U.S. Supreme Court which will be led into the 21st century by a brilliant, principled Chief Justice.

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  • Author Alain de Botton
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    It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.

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  • Author Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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    RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of classical refinement, and is even said to have been used in a fable by Georgius Coadjutor, one of the most fastidious writers of the fifteenth century --commonly, indeed, regarded as the founder of the Fastidiotic School.

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  • Author Bernard Beckett
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    Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.

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  • Author Bob Brown
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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,

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  • Author Brett Bell
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    It seems like a century ago. It seems like forever, just rehabbing and everything.

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  • Author Chester Brown
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    The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made up one.

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

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