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“The great moral question of the twenty-first century is this: if all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?”

Ifs Art Culture Given Moral Knowing Century Information 21st Century Useful Information

Author:Eben Moglen

“Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.”

Nations Quality Doubt Teacher Century Fundamentals Arguing 21st Century

Author:David Puttnam

“The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak.”

Century Terrible Freak 21st Century Control Freak Terrible Times

Author:Jared Cohen

“Fetish is the exploration of sex as art, and the refinement of one’s personal desires. Anything can be fetishised...There’ll be new fetishes forever. I feel that the 21st century is all about fetish.”

Feels Art Desire Sex Forever Century Exploration 21st Century Refinement Fetish Personal Desire

Author:Rick Castro

“The effects of illegal immigration aren't that different from those of legal immigration —an illiterate Central American farmer with a green card is just as unsuited for a 21st-century economy as an illiterate Central American farmer without a green card.”

Different Economy Effects Century Green Immigration Cards Illegal Farmers 21st Century Illiterate Illegal Immigration Legal Immigration Green Card

Author:Mark Krikorian

“In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.”

World Inspiration Motivation Century Changed Our World 21st Century Things Have Changed

Author:Eddie Obeng

“The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.”

States Nations Cities Century Empires 21st Century 20th Century 19th Century

Author:Wellington Webb

“Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.”

Care Kids Century Deserve Iraq Medical Afghanistan 21st Century Coming Back Medical Care

Author:Anthony Principi

“EFT is destined to be a top healing tool for the 21st Century.”

Healing Century Tools 21st Century Destined

Author:Candace Pert

“It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.”

World Century Movement Around The World 21st Century Abolitionist

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“The situation of women living in Islam-stricken societies and under Islamic laws is the outrage of the 21st century. Burqa-clad and veiled women and girls, beheadings, stoning to death, floggings, child sexual abuse in the name of marriage and sexual apartheid are only the most brutal and visible aspects of women's rightlessness and third class citizen status in the Middle East”

Children Law Girl Names Situation Class Middle Century Citizens Aspect Thirds Abuse Islam East Visible Islamic Middle East Brutal 21st Century Outrage Apartheid Burqa Flogging Islamic Law

Author:Maryam Namazie

“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.”

Important Century Skills 21st Century Obsolete Learning New New Skills Learning New Skills

Author:Peter Drucker

“I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.”

People Needs Term Walks Attitude Century Suspects 21st Century Walks Of Life

Author:Frances O'Grady

“I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.”

Believe Form I Believe Novel Century Havens Memoir 21st Century Getting Started

Author:Susan Cheever

“It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus.”

People World Three Numbers Half Century Fit Population Billions Tiny Bus Elites 21st Century Staggering

Author:Winnie Byanyima

“The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.”

Inspirational Attention Century Valuable Producers Commodity 21st Century Undivided Attention

Author:Phil Cooke

“It keeps startling me that at the beginning of this 21st century, at a time when we can . . . explore the depths of the seas and build an international space station, we have not been able to make childbirth safe for all women around the world. ... This is one of the greatest social causes of our time.”

World Able Social Causes Space Sea Century Safe Depth International Around The World Our Time Stations 21st Century Childbirth International Space Station

Author:Thoraya Obaid

“I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.”

People Ifs World Believe Enough Would Be Today I Believe Century If I Could Acceptable 21st Century World Today Really Happy Saddest

Author:Izabel Goulart

“In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.”

People Thinking Fighting Quality Poverty Progress Century Hero Improvement Sustainability Introducing Heroism 21st Century Improving Quality Of Life Psychiatrist

Author:Bertrand Piccard

“The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.”

Focus Century Security Safety Eras Uncertainty 21st Century Public Safety

Author:Gavin Newsom

“We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?'”

Believe Spirit Lying Asks Force President Century International Division 21st Century Norm Putin Brutes Notable Brute Force Josef Stalin

Author:Rich Lowry

“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

“It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.”

World Together Beautiful Cities Century Changed Creating Aspect Tragedy 21st Century Memorial Contradictory Beautiful City

Author:Daniel Libeskind

“I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one morning in a world where the 21st century's J Edgar Hoover has the power to blackmail anyone in America.”

World America Morning Century Wake Up Threat Privacy Patriot Proven 21st Century Underestimate Blackmail Patriot Act Hoover Proven Wrong J Edgar Hoover

Author:Tim Lee

“It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.”

Needs Loses Company Economy Century Competition Workers Graduates 21st Century Employers

Author:Christopher Bond

“Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.”

Opportunity Technology Economic Century Green 21st Century

Author:John Doerr

“For in Asia and around the world, India is not simply emerging; India has already emerged. And it is my firm belief that the relationship between the United States and India - bound by our shared interests and values - will be one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century. This is the partnership I have come here to build. This is the vision that our nations can realise together.”

“I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.”

Thinking Want Young Actors Century Connected Mediums Hips 21st Century Young Actors

Author:Robert Duvall

“The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and cohesion, nor even on the continuity and professionalism of its foreign policy. France will be heeded if it has a message to convey. Faced with the temptations of laissez-faire, France must stand out as the nation with the imagination and determination to pursue an ambition that combines cogency with generosity.”

“21st Century choice: Look after our planet and it will look after us, or don't and face the consequences”

Looks Faces Choices Century Planets Consequence 21st Century Our Planet Sustainable Development

Author:Phil Harding

“A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics”

Century Solutions Economics Stable 21st Century 20th Century

Author:Phil Harding

“FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society.”

Humans Rights Century Human Rights 21st Century Breach

Author:Waris Dirie

“Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA sequence of the human genetic code. This amazing accomplishment is likely to affect the 21st century as profoundly as the invention of the computer or the splitting of the atom affected the 20th century. I believe that the 21st century will be the century of life sciences, and nothing makes that point more clearly than this momentous discovery. It will revolutionize medicine as we know it today.”

“Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.”

Way Ends Century Wind 21st Century Way Forward Solar Power Wind Power

Author:Bjork

“The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.”

Long Ends Middle Century Fishing 21st Century

Author:Sylvia Earle

“If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.”

Ifs World Century 21st Century

Author:Stephen King

“Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian “improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.”

Giving Wells Children Book Reading Literature Enjoy Generations Century Wind Adults Worthy Convinced Dull 21st Century Improving Victorian Love Of Reading Uncool

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Only If there is devotion to knowledge, the 21st century will become India's century and the foundation of that will be laid by the 'Vanche Gujarat' movement.”

Ifs Century Movement India Foundation Devotion 21st Century Gujarat

Author:Narendra Modi

“My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.”

Helping Together Goal Challenges Century Administration Working Together Engagement 21st Century Stakeholder

Author:Valerie Jarrett

“The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.”

Company Century Institutions Workers Productions Valuable Productivity Assets 21st Century Equipment 20th Century Knowledge Workers

Book:Management Challenges for the 21st Century

Source: Management Challenges for the 21st Century

“I am a 21st century man. I don’t believe in magic. I believe in sweat, tears, life and death.”

Men Believe I Believe Magic Century Tears Don't Believe I Believe In Life And Death Sweat 21st Century

Author:Kamal Haasan

“Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with nature. Ashes and Snow is a 21st-century bestiary filled with species from around the world. Nature’s orchestra includes not just Homo sapiens but elephants, whales, manatees, eagles, cheetahs, orangutans, and many others.”

World Culture Century Filled Species Snow Around The World Ashes 21st Century Elephants Orchestra Eagles Whales Homo Sapiens American Indian Cheetahs Orangutans Mayans

Author:Gregory Colbert

“Let’s summarize. What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they do, added to insanely great stuff, and multiplied by communities who are delighted and inspired because they are authentically better off. That’s a better kind of innovation, built for 21st century economics.”

People Kind Real Happens Values Stuff Community Century Built Economics Innovation Inspired Meaningful Thick 21st Century Better Off Delighted Awesomeness

Author:Umair Haque

“Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in the hands of demons with suspect motives, betrayed by her own kind, stranded in the world of Man—21st century St. Petersburg, Russia, to be exact. Weaving startling visuals with compelling characters, Kindred reveals parallels in the two worlds that are ‘neither haphazard chance nor calculated design.’ It’s a dizzying, vibrant read.”

“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.”

“I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.”

Firsts States Politics Century Policy Internet Access Secretary Site 21st Century Cafes Internet Access

Author:Madeleine Albright

“Unlike anything heard before. This is jazz for the 21st century.”

Heard Century Jazz 21st Century

Author:Scott Yanow

“And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.”

Long Has Beens Ends Certain Century Long Time Europe Western Granted Dominant 21st Century Hemisphere

Author:Edward James Olmos

“Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.”

Firsts Happens Watches Century Students College Campaigns Genocide 21st Century College Students

Author:Ross Martin

“Iran is an ancient land, home to a proud culture with a rich heritage of learning and progress. The future of Iran will be decided by the people of Iran. Right now, the Iranian people are struggling with difficult questions about how to build a modern 21st century society that is at once Muslim, prosperous, and free. There is a long history of friendship between the American people and the people of Iran. As Iran's people move towards a future defined by greater freedom, greater tolerance, they will have no better friend than the United States of America.”

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