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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

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I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

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The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology.

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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Ahead Century Empower Leaders
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
21st Century Adult Century Learning
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

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But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

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We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.

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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

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I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

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Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

Live Century Creature
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I want to sleep for half a second, a second, a minute, a century, but I want everyone to know that I'm still alive...

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It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
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As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'

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We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.
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A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

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The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

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The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

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It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.

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Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

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I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

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Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

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Lately, I have been wondering if there is time left for daydreaming in this 21st-century world of constant communication.

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Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.

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A media manager in the 21st century is a slave of the Breaking News, a slave particularly of the 24-hour news cycle, and a potential nervous breakdown case.

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Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.

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This is a historic day for our nation, for it marks an important milestone in our march towards a maturing democracy. For the first time since we cast off the shackles of colonialism almost a half-century ago, we have at last managed an orderly transition from one elected government to another.

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The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

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These are extraordinary times. We are facing a “once in a century”global health emergency but also a potential economic meltdown.

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Poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We must eradicate these ills for the benefit of all.

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We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

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Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.

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