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"I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one."
"What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth."
"I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him."
"In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right."
"The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church."
"I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier."
"We are working as hard as we can; we are preparing ourselves as carefully as we can; we fully intend to make our contribution to the world in the coming century."
"I am confident that the next century will be better than this one."
"We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy."
"The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries."
"The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change."
"Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines."
"Fanaticism is the greatest threat today. Literally, the 21st century threatened by fanatics, and we have fanatics in every religion, unfortunately, and what can we do against them? Words nothing else, I'm against violence but only words."
"One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that."
"We have to rethink how to teach financial education in the 21st century."
"I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least."
"Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his warm-heartednes s into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality."
"Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven."
"He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead."
"In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted."
