Century quotes
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"I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end."
"that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)"
"The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century."
"My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century."
"At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century."
"The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly."
"Truth takes no account of centuries."
"With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century"
"Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud."
"The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other."
"Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten."
"Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework."
"India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources"
"Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit."
"The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century."
"Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man."
"I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century."
"The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century."
"I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business."
"If you can read in the 21st century you own the world."
