In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront i... ALLYSON SCHWARTZ I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST Edgeworth has been the foremost economist in England during the latter part of the 19th century and ... LUDWIG VON MISES We have a late 19th, 20th century way of looking at textbooks. This is the 21st century. ASSEMBLYWOMAN JACKIE GOLDBERG Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century... CLEMENT ATTLEE There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time... TWYLA THARP At the beginning of the 20th century, the Conservative cabinet was called Hotel Cecil. MICHAEL GOVE Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century,... CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrover... SUSAN CAIN In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end ... FELIX DENNIS The 20th century was all about the origin of matter and the universe, so it seemed useful to go to s... ASAHIKO TAIRA Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his wor... JOHN UPDIKE There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile... ERIC RIES What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and e... BERTRAND PICCARD Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're... BARRY MARSHALL We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON This was a great man of the 20th century, one of those who had a huge and positive influence on what... YEGOR GAIDAR The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of... VIGGO MORTENSEN We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy. BARACK OBAMA Russia was the last to leave the 19th century and the most rapid to enter the mandates of the 20th c... AMOR TOWLES It's a very important part of the 20th century and World War II. LARRY WILCOX We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL 'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th centu... ALBERT S. RUDDY I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ... HENRY HON Malvina was one of the great people of the 20th century, PETE SEEGER The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sourc... EAVAN BOLAND Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We were just joking about it before that even the prime minister had a few weeks off over Christmas ... BRAD HODGE The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the... C. JOYBELL C. Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po... RICK RIORDAN I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of g... N. T. WRIGHT The 20th century has been a century of bloodshed. The present century, because of our past experienc... DALAI LAMA Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20... PAUL ENGLE we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI The End is Nigh!" the man shouted. "Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked. T... JANA OLIVER Let me finish my beer." (Stark) "Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian) RICHARD KADREY We decided to take the one art form that was created in this country -- the Broadway musical -- and ... JEFF BUHRMAN Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th cent... MIKE LEIGH We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha... L.M. MONTGOMERY Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO We are seeing a workplace in transition, shifting from models that served the needs of the 20th cent... ELLEN GALINSKY The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following cen... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w... RICK RIORDAN The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people wh... DICK MORRIS The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, ... SYLVIA EARLE We still should have enough time to reach Rome.” Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav... RICK RIORDAN This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked. RICK RIORDAN He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly... RICK RIORDAN Did someone just call me the wine dude ?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas... RICK RIORDAN Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. “You do have a plan?” Percy wanted to step ... RICK RIORDAN Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ... RICK RIORDAN I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered. The taxi driver grinned in... RICK RIORDAN It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physi... FREEMAN DYSON Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this centu... PETER LINDBERGH We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG Essentially what happened was that quantitatively we had our fingers on the pulse of the global ocea... BILL PATZERT My uncle Lionel ended up being a bug guy at 20th Century Fox, which my father had been - and, of cou... THOMAS NEWMAN South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century. LOUIS LEAKEY At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that ... BRIAN ENO It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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