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“Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.”

“Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.”

Trying Ideas War States Problem Political Forget Modern Century Pure Europe Transition Genocide 21st Century 19th Century Nato Us Army White Genocide

Author:Wesley Clark

“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”

People World Way America Black Realizing White Gone Century Color Concern Wake Up West Western 21st Century Merry Faded Western World Wake Up Call Gone Away

Author:Jeremiah Wright

“And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.”

Needs Whole Courses Cities Wonderful Century Design 21st Century Spectacular Restoration Manhattan Skylines

Author:Daniel Libeskind

“The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.”

Reality Faces Humanity Challenges Common Fate Share Century Planets 21st Century Defining Crowded

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“The reason women are always reluctant to reveal their age is because other people label them as 'past it'. In the 21st century, women over 60 are not past it - we are vital, active, sexual beings, living life to the full.”

People Reason Age Past Women Century Active Labels Live Life 21st Century Reluctant Living Life To The Full

Author:Ita Buttrose

“As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures, religions, philosophies, worldviews and perspectives encounter one another in the marketplace of our global village. It is now clear that our future sustainability on this planet calls for radical advances in our rational and human capacities to negotiate the powerful forces between worlds as the human family moves towards a sustainable global civilization.”

“The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.”

Century Internet Glasses 21st Century Stained Glass

Author:Diana Butler Bass

“So-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air & water, improve fuel-efficiency of our vehicles, kickstart 21st century industries, & make our cities safer & more livable. Don't let them get away with it!”

America Energy Water Secret Cities Air Tree Century Industry Independent Clean Climate Change Fuel Global Warming Get Away Vehicle Efficiency 21st Century Ploy Fuel Efficiency

Author:Chip Giller

“As we move into the 21st century, it becomes ever clearer that the ultimate, most intimate territory for design is not electronics, or interiors, or furniture, or the Web. It's us-our own living, breathing, biological selves. ... the personal makeover has become our most fundamental design task.”

Self Moving Century Design Tasks Ultimate Fundamentals Breathing Intimate Territory 21st Century Interiors Furniture Electronics Makeovers

Author:Rick Poynor

“In the 21st century, the database is the marketplace.”

Century Social Media 21st Century Marketplace Databases

Author:Stan Rapp

“It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age, Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.”

Ifs Government Age Lasts Generations Century Politician Office Retirement Last Time 21st Century Diapers Generation X Retirement Age

Author:Michelle Malkin

“You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on children, an education system that raises standards, an education that makes sure there's excellence in every classroom.”

Children Able Education Century Standards Raises Excellence Quitting Classroom 21st Century Education System Educational System

Author:George W. Bush

“As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.”

Thinking Want Ideas Inspiration Motivation Loss Century Gains Vices Get Away Zero 21st Century Vice Versa Being Positive Your Loss

Author:Joseph Nye

“There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.”

Century Mediocrity Committees 21st Century Bureaucracy Government Bureaucracy

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!”

Want Different Reason Language Views Saws Century Students Color 21st Century Presenting Different Languages Berkeley Different Colors Different Views

Author:June Jordan

“I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.”

Thinking Important Death Century Awareness Design Building Halls Museums Concerts 21st Century Civics Civic Duty

Author:Daniel Libeskind

“I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.”

People Walks Compassion Century 21st Century

Author:Tori Amos

“The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.”

World Ends Evil Failing Century Taught Lessons Genocide 21st Century 20th Century Murderer Heed Taught Us

Author:Allyson Schwartz

“Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.”

Mind Real Century Estates 21st Century

Author:Chuck D

“It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century”

Would Be Century Shapes Europe Landscape 21st Century 20th Century

Author:Lawrence Summers

“Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce”

Art Self Kids Community Creative Risk Century Self Esteem Youth Skills Esteem 21st Century Involvement Workforce Improve Self Esteem

Author:Gavin Newsom

“In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of a genre form with the deep resonance of literary art. This book is thrilling to read for both its narrative drive and its insight into the human heart.”

“You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.”

Thinking Made Age Technology Century Figures Discovery Abuse 21st Century

Author:Tori Amos

“To set us on the right course we need to create more opportunities for trade, particularly in developing countries, and we need to adjust global trade rules to better meet the needs of entrepreneurs in the 21st century.”

Needs Country Courses Opportunity Century Trade Entrepreneur Developing 21st Century Developing Countries

Author:Pascal Lamy

“I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'”

People Men Believe Stills Sky Century Atheist Critical Invisible Believe In God Thinker 21st Century

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.”

Wonderful Century Intellectual 21st Century Superb Spas

Author:Kurt Andersen

“Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.”

People Ifs Hard Century Hard Work Essentials Educational Entrepreneurship Preparing 21st Century Educational System

Author:Eric Ries

“The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.”

Century Ruins 21st Century Frontiers

Author:Bruce Sterling

“The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.”

Way Humanity Century Including Manage Collectives Assets 21st Century

Author:Achim Steiner

“With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.”

“Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to seven billion people.”

People World Humans Reality Human Beings Century Illusion Independent Billions Dependent Bees Technological 21st Century Prowess

Author:Achim Steiner

“The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.”

Ifs Use Opportunity Common Creative Century Males Thrive 21st Century Counterparts Finland

Author:Tarja Halonen

“Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.”

Century Training Method Boxing 21st Century

Author:Barry McGuigan

“We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were brough into being after the 2nd World War, and they're now failing us ever more catastropically. Wild Law shows just how radical we now need to be in creating new institutions that are genuinely 'fit for purpose' in the 21st Century.”

Thinking World Needs War Shows Today Earth Law Purpose Failing Century Fit Creating Institutions Stuck Radical War Of The Worlds 21st Century Governance Obsolete

Author:Jonathon Porritt

“I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind”

Mind Self Speak Century 21st Century Assured

Author:Ednita Nazario

“Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.”

Practice Century Source Tradition Journalism 21st Century Anonymity

Author:Joe Klein

“Clear, crisp, and compelling. . . . Mitzvah Girls is a thoughtful look at the world of Jewish girls who grow up in 21st-century America, but don't really.”

World Looks America Girl Grows Growing Up Clear Century Thoughtful Compelling 21st Century Crisps Mitzvah

Author:David Wolpe

“I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.”

Needs Believe I Believe Quality Century Proud Meetings Obligation 21st Century Public Education Nebraska

Author:Dave Heineman

“I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.”

Believe Ideas Century Balance Europe Don't Believe 21st Century 20th Century Balance Of Power

Author:Joschka Fischer

“In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.”

World Together Community Century Seeking Traditional League Abortion 21st Century Homosexual Captives Traditional Marriage Naacp Homosexual Marriage

Author:Alveda King

“Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches, further progress will be reported and recorded in Cyberspace - The Internet being one conduit for that. Linking nurses and their information and knowledge across borders - around the world - will surely advance the profession of nursing much more rapidly in the next century”

“Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce.”

“Women spend 80 cents of every dollar in the marketplace. We could be the most powerful force for economic and environmental change in the 21st century if we focused our money where it could make the biggest difference. If a million people did that, it would have a $1 billion impact.”

“The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.”

Source: Management Challenges for the 21st Century

“The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global economy. Career technical education (CTE) shares the Initiative s goal that all students must be college and career ready. CTE programs that incorporate the Common Core Standards will ensure students have the academic and technical knowledge and skills to be successful in the 21st century workplace.”

“...animal research is essential to tackling major 21st century health problems such as cancer and heart disease. Without the use of animals it would be impossible, in many cases, to develop drugs or any sort of medical treatment.”

“Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we call the 21st century.”

Walks Century Insane Thanks 21st Century Apocalypse Zombie Starbucks Zombie Apocalypse Babbling

Author:St. Sukie de la Croix

“India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources”

Humans Term Century Resources India 21st Century Human Resources Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis

Author:Rahul Gandhi

“India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century.”

Century India 21st Century Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis

Author:Rahul Gandhi

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