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Century

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author

"The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time."

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Russell Means Activist, Actor

"'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century."

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Russell Lynes Photographer, Writer

"Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

"A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch."

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Martin Heidegger Philosopher

"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought."

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Daisaku Ikeda Buddhist Leader, Author

Century

"Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century."

Faces Buddhist Century

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer

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"The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx."

Real Century Prophet

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Cornel West Philosopher

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

Form Century Tribalism

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James Monroe Politician

Century

"History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war."

War Half Century

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Henry Ford Industrialist

Century

"I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work."

Men Discovery Century

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Grant Morrison Comic Book Writer, Novelist

Century

"A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries"

Fire Century Cannons

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Years Century Printing

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Daisaku Ikeda Buddhist Leader, Author

Century

"I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind."

Believe Peaceful Century

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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian

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"The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries."

Brother Century My Brother

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Judith Martin Poet

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"Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that."

Century Etiquette

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Rahul Gandhi Politician

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"India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century."

India Century Arabia

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Nikola Tesla Inventor, Electrical Engineer

Century

"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."

Normal Criminals Century

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist

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"If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky."

Century Biking Tandem Bikes

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Diana Vreeland Fashion Editor

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"No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century."

Spirit Luxury Century

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist

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"Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life."

Black Century Victim

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Immanuel Wallerstein Sociologist

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"This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position."

Process Argument Century

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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer

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"the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)"

Sick Truth Is Century

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Theologian

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"The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist."

Artist Today Century

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Thomas Frank Author

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"A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to."

People Century Socialism

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader

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"We have introduced a rule of law. That never existed for centuries in this country [South Africa], especially under the apartheid regime, when the law was reduced into disrepute."

Country Law Century

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