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“In the 1980s, when people were just beginning to talk about AIDS, there were just a few categories of those who were at high risk: homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin addicts, and Haitians. We were the only ones identified by nationality.”

People Risk Aids Categories Homosexual Addict Nationality Heroin High Risk

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“In the 1980s... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our freedoms to conform to a humanistic philosophy that was patently antireligious.”

Ends Philosophy Government Christian Political Religious Changed Suits Conform Humanistic

Author:James G. Watt

Source: The courage of a conservative

“In the 1990, there was a rock band in Russia called Bakhyt-Kompot, and they had a song that was musically terrible but an important expression of punk philosophy that articulated one of my own main preoccupations. The chorus went like this: "How come the Czechs have cracked it, but Russia hasn't hacked it? How come the Poles have cracked it, but Russia hasn't hacked it? How come the Germans have cracked it, but Russia hasn't hacked it?" All the countries of the Soviet bloc and the Baltic republics were managing to "crack it," but not us. We had the oil, the gas, the ores and timber, infrastructure of sorts, and industry. We had a lot of highly educated people but it didn't help. I'm not talking about "like in America"; it wasn't even like in Poland. According to current official statistics, 13 percent of people were living below the poverty line; in terms of the average wage, we had been overtaken by China, Lebanon, and Panama. Someday I believe it will all work out and everything will be fine, but we have to face the fact that from the early 1990s to the 2020s, the life of the nation has been wasted moronically, a time of degeneration and failing to keep up. There is good reason why people like me, and those five or ten years older, are called a cursed and lost generation. We are the people who should have been the main beneficiaries of market and political freedom. We could have adapted readily to a new world in a way that was beyond the ability of most earlier generations. Fifteen percent of us should have become entrepreneurs, "like in America." But Russia didn't crack it. No one doubts we are living better now than we were in 1990, but, excuse me, thirty years have passed. Even in North Korea people are living better now than they did then. Scientific and technological progress, whole new branches of the economy, communications, the internet, ATMs, computers . . . Those who claim the rise in living standards relative to the 1990s is due to the exertions and achievements of the Putin regime re like stock joke characters saying, "Thank heaven for Putin! Under his rule the speed of computers has increased a millionfold." The comparison should not be between us as we were in 1990 and us as we are now, but between how we are now and how we could have been if we had grown at just the average global growth rate. We would easily have achieved what we watched in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, China, and South Korea achieve. That is a comparison about which we can only feel sad. This is not some abstract exercise, but thirty years of our lives. And God knows how many more such lost and stolen years lie ahead. For as long as Putin's group is in power, we will count the missed opportunities and be noticing how other countries have overtaken us in per capita GDP, and how those we have always looked down as little better than beggars have overtaken us in terms of their national average income.”

Failure Russia Comparison Objectivity

Author:Alexei Navalny

Source: Patriot: A Memoir

“In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of "free trade."”

Has Beens Example Industry Protect Trade Corporate Rejected Restraint Free Trade Prerogative Designation Ascendancy Infringement

Author:Herbert Schiller

“In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests was for marijuana possession, a drug less harmful than alcohol or tobacco and at least, if not more, prevalent in middle class white neighborhoods and college campuses as it is in the 'hood.”

Ifs War White Class Middle College Periods Drug Percent Increase Possession Alcohol Middle Class Neighborhood Marijuana Tobacco Hood Campus War On Drugs College Campus Escalation

Author:Michelle Alexander

“In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a grave social situation in Russia; our social protection system was destroyed; numerous problems emerged which we have not been able to cope with effectively yet, to get rid of them, in health, sports development.”

Problem Able Social Sports Situation Development Protection Graves Russia Destroyed

Author:Vladimir Putin

“In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and came to Earth, and that idea seemed to have a lot of traction and is now accepted as very plausible.”

Ideas Earth Study Spread Accepted Mars Prospects Plausible Traction

Author:Paul Davies

“In the 1990s I got to play in a group that played in prisons in California. We would play in maximum security wards. It was infuriating. Those kinds of situations stick with me. We got to come in and play music for them because that's a way of caring, just offering something, a gift, basically. They're basically the most grateful audiences I've ever experienced, because nobody's giving them anything.”

Giving Kind Situation Audience Security Grateful Prison Caring

Author:Vijay Iyer

“In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.”

Humans Neglect Gathering Neglected Human Intelligence Intelligence Gathering

Author:Todd Akin

“In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.”

“In the 1990s, Michael Jordan was the preeminent athlete in the country. And when the product with his name on it seemed to be linked to crime and violence in poor communities, many called on him to address it. They asked him to weigh in on robberies, on kids robbed for their high-priced Air Jordan sneakers. But he wouldn`t.”

Country Kids Names Community Poor Violence Air Crime Products Athlete Addresses Linked Jordan Robbery Sneakers

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“In the 1990s, there was [Bill] Clinton derangement syndrome. Then, we had [George W.] Bush and [Barack] Obama derangement syndromes, back in the first 16 years of this century.And now, we might be seeing [Donald]Trump derangement syndrome? By that, we mean this. The feeling that no matter what the president does, the left or right or whoever is out of power, is alarmed, outraged and distraught and they`re going to let you know no matter what.”

Knows Years Firsts Mean Doe Matter Feelings Might Left President Seeing Century Trump No Matter What Bills Clinton Barack Syndromes Outraged Distraught

Author:Chuck Todd

“In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.”

Fighting Community Cities Crime Models Strategy Violent Tides Threatened Boston Preventing Tidy Violent Crimes Fighting Crime

Author:Thomas Menino

“In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.”

Facts Certain Nuclear Factories Saddam Hussein Soap Arsenal

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“In the 1991 movie City Slickers, Jack Palance gives Billy Crystal some profoundly simple advice. When Crystal asks him the secret of life, Palance holds up a forefinger, answers with a single word: "One." Choose one thing. Do it to the best of your ability. Let it go. Pick something else. Repeat endlessly.”

Mindfulness One Thing At A Time Do What You Re Doing

Author:Lionel Fisher

Source: Celebrating Time Alone: Stories Of Splendid Solitude

“In the 1992 presidential debate, third-party candidate Ross Perot famously warned about a 'giant sucking sound' of American jobs going south of the border to low-wage nations once trade protections were dropped. Perot was right, but no one in our government listened to him. Tariffs were ditched, and then Bill Clinton moved into the White House...He continued Reagan's trade policies and committed the United States to so-called free-trade agreements such as GATT, NAFTA, and the WTO, thus removing all the protections that had kept our domestic manufacturing industries safe from foreign corporate predators for two centuries.”

Class Warfare Corporatism Banksters Economic Illiteracy

Author:Thom Hartmann

“In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said ‘looks like we’re a couple of peeing Toms.’ His angry silence is something I’ll never forget.”

Looks Said Funny Next Found Forget Silence Situation Couple Anger Angry Never Forget Awkward Toms Oscars Silence Is Bathroom Wordplay Funny Jokes Appropriateness Awkward Situations

Author:Tom Hanks

“In the 1999 resolution regarding Taiwan's future passed by the Democratic Progressive Party, it is stated very clearly that any change to the status quo of Taiwan must be decided by the people of Taiwan through referenda.”

People Party Decided Democratic Resolution Progressive Status Quo Taiwan

Author:Chen Shui-bian

“In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing the Chinese industry the exact reverse of what is happening now. World economics have turned full circle.”

World Business Quality Century Industry Equal Happenings Economics Method China Circles Chinese Factories Reverse Cheaper 19th Century Pottery Full Circle Porcelain

Author:Martin Sorrell

“In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.”

Mean Self Century Cruelty 20th Century Alienation 19th Century Inhumanity Schizoid

Author:Erich Fromm

“In the 19th century it was basically nationality and people trying to define their nationalism and create states which would reflect their nationalism. In the 20th century, ideology came to the fore, largely, but not exclusively, as a result of the Russian Revolution and we have fascism, communism and liberal democracy competing with each other. Well that's pretty much over.”

People Trying Wells States Results Democracy Century Revolution Ideology Communism Nationalism Fascism Competing 20th Century Nationality 19th Century Russian Revolution Liberal Democracy

Author:Samuel P. Huntington

“In the 19th century, many European countries sought colonies. Leopold II long cherished the ambition to give a colony to Belgium. He came into contact with British explorer Stanley, who found no interest in Central Africa in London. Later, the British would regret it. They discredited the Congo Free State to get their hands on Katanga and its mining resources. In 1908 London tried to sabotage Belgium’s takeover of the Congo Free State by formulating conditions. But other countries did not follow that line. In 1911, the British signed a secret agreement with Germany on a reallocation of Africa; the Germans would not follow through. In 1937 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain offered Hitler ‘half of the Belgian Congo’ in exchange for peace in Europe; but the Fuhrer refused.”

British London Congo Leopold Ii Congo Free State Belgian Congo Adolf Hitler

Author:Jean-Pierre Nzeza Kabu Zex-Kongo

Source: Léopold II Le plus grand chef d'Etat de l'histoire du Congo (Études africaines)

“In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.”

People World Mean Lost Space Century Bravery Brave Ships Exploration Passages Space Exploration 19th Century

Author:John L. Phillips

“In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.”

World Eye Known Century Details Familiar Mechanism Accurate Sophisticated 19th Century Outside World Anatomy Astounded

Author:Michael Behe

“In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'”

People Ifs Want Children Problem Would Be Economy Century Foundation Labour Free Market 19th Century Market Economy Kidnapped Child Labour

Author:Brian Eno

“In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses.”

Cities Century Chicago Berlin 19th Century

Author:Darryl Pinckney

“In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.”

Felt Differences Century Periods Memoir Dislike 19th Century Loathing

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.”

Mind Century Rivers Environmental Devoted Exploring 21st Century 20th Century 19th Century Restoring

Author:Stephen Ambrose

“In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.”

Years Long Body Poor Views Exercise Late Hungry Vulnerable Diets Regimes New Year Teens Body Image

Author:Arabella Weir

“In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.”

Years Ends Effort Gains Rate Temporary Greece Adjustment Euro Competitiveness

Author:Lucas Papademos

“In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.”

Security Military Election Als National Security Gore Presenting Military Service

Author:Samantha Power

“In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.”

“In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.”

People Artist Obsessed Ipods Playlists

Author:Questlove

“In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.”

Giving Facts Individual Nations Saws Wonderful Example Citizens Highest Election Campaigns Presidential Contribution Presidential Election

Author:Mark Shields

“In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the campaign. I campaigned all over America for two months, everywhere I could. And in every single campaign rally I said, 'We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.' Well, the people spoke. They spoke, much to my dismay, but they spoke. And they reelected the President of the United States.”

“In the 20s, you were a face. And that was enough. In the 30s, you also had to be a voice. And your voice had to match your face, if you can imagine that.”

Ifs Enough Faces Voice Imagine Your Face Imagine That

Author:Joan Blondell

“In the 20th century philosophy of time for a great many theorists became part of science because it was time as is studied in physics that became the object of philosophical speculation. That's very different from the way time has normally been understood.”

Different Philosophy Philosophical Physics Great Men 20th Century Speculation

Author:William Lane Craig

“In the 20th century there's was the long-running division in the Republican Party between what was known as Wall Street and Main Street Republicans. And sort of different expectations about the use of the federal government.”

Different Party Wall Republican Expectations Republican Party 20th Century

Author:John Aldrich

“In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies.”

People Way Artist Stuff Realizing Century Depth Fairy Shallow 20th Century Disservice

Author:Brian Froud

“In the 20th century, evangelical Christians in America have naively accepted the role assigned to us by an anti-religious, anti-Christian consensus in our society. We have been relegated to a cultural backwater, where we are meant to paddle around content in the knowledge that we are merely allowed to exist.”

Has Beens Christian America Religious Roles Century Accepted Our Society 20th Century Consensus Evangelical Anti Religious Anti Christian

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“In the 20th century, the French managed to get a death on the myth that they produce the world's best food. The hype has been carefully orchestrated, and despite the fact that the most popular food in the last quarter has undoubtedly been Italian, the French have managed to maintain that mental grip.”

World Has Beens Facts Lasts Century Produce Myth Despite Italian Quarters 20th Century Hype Best Food

Author:Clarissa Dickson Wright

“In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.”

World States Nations Religious Vision Century Example Minorities Nationalism 20th Century Turkeys Turkish Muslim World Armenians Kurds

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.”

Mean Facts Given Church Religious Moral Century Position Morality England Institutions British Symbols 20th Century Monarchy Monarchs Church Of England British Monarchy

Author:David Starkey

“In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.”

“In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.”

People Men World Kind Ends Technology Century Television Industry Internet Moon Phones Medical All Kinds Cells Colour Primitive 20th Century Cell Phone Orbit Medical Technology

Author:David Gerrold

“In the 21st century and beyond, eating healthy foods alone is no longer medicine. Eating habits are.”

Eating Habits Mindful Eating Intermittent Fasting Prediabetes Eating Well Quotes Fasting And Diabetes

Author:Christopher Oseh

Source: The Power of Healthy Eating Habits: A “How to eat method” that empowers professionals and entrepreneurs to change unhealthy eating habits for optimal health, ...

“In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.”

“In the 21st century men’s tits have not just rivalled but replaced women’s as the touchstone of ‘sexy’ in mainstream pop culture, even when the audience for them is other men.”

Men Tits Mark Simpson Metrosexuality Gavin Henson

Author:Mark Simpson

“In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations.”

Nations Century 21st Century

Author:John McCain

“In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.”

Has Beens Brain Century Industry Taste Kitchen Chemistry 21st Century Bud Hormones Biochemistry Food Industry Taste Buds

Author:Mark Hyman, M.D.