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Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world  (Century Quotes) The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival  (Century Quotes) If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself  (Century Quotes) For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year  (Century Quotes) In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them  (Century Quotes) One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable  (Century Quotes) No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow  (Century Quotes) Yes, deficits are a problem. I’ve been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it’s the size of government’s claim on our economy  (Century Quotes) For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach  (Century Quotes) I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love  (Century Quotes) By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century  (Century Quotes) It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first  (Century Quotes) The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can’t be trusted to keep their word to the international community  (Century Quotes) Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace  (Century Quotes) Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox  (Century Quotes) At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century  (Century Quotes) It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling  (Century Quotes) Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!  (Century Quotes) We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character  (Century Quotes) 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  (Century Quotes) Today’s child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules  (Century Quotes) A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic time; and the photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony  (Century Quotes) Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century  (Century Quotes) One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century  (Century Quotes) A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal  (Century Quotes) I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!  (Century Quotes) Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st century and we all need to wake up about it  (Century Quotes) Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth  (Century Quotes) Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed  (Century Quotes) My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did  (Century Quotes)
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