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“This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing. We have been lulled into addiction and everything is built around it and you have to break out of it and think outside of the box.”

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Author:Neil Young

“The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit.”

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Author:Tucker Max

“In this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder].”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union.”

People Age Form Force Perfect History Century Information Shapes Unions Dawn 21st Century Limitless Information Age Limitless Potential

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997

“It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists.”

Knows Men Humans May Said Light Earth Simple Walks Five Century Mountain India Miles 21st Century Simple Man

Author:Ram Dass

“A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age.”

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Author:Ram Dass

“I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers, but they can't spell. Because spell-check won't [help] you if you don't know through from threw. I told them, "If you can read in the 21st century, you own the world." Because you learn to write from reading.”

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Author:Stephen King

“The meeting of science and art is definitely interesting for the 21st century, and I think to use scientific expertise and knowledge to preserve an artistic statement is very interesting. It takes things a step further.”

Thinking Art Use Interesting Steps Century Art Is Meetings Statements Artistic Preserves 21st Century Very Interesting Expertise Art And Science

Author:Marc Quinn

“Can our culture be reclaimed? How can we stay free in the next century? While people of other countries have been restricted m to pursue prosperity, bounded only by the limits of his or her imagination. Besides, only a conservative would ask how we can STAY prosperous and free in the 21st century. A liberal would whine that only a few are prosperous-the evil rich who have somehow gotten rich off the backs of the poor.”

People Has Beens Country Culture Evil Next Asks Imagination Poor Rich Century Limits Conservative Prosperity Pursue Other Countries 21st Century Prosperous

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they existed to make money, not to be charitable institutions. But in the economy of the 21st century, corporations cannot be socially responsible, if social responsibility is understood to mean sacrificing profits for the sake of some perceived social good. That's because competition has become so much more intense.”

“An unreflective passion for social justice may be one of the biggest obstacles to creating peace and prosperity in the 21st century. While there are most certainly factory owners in China whom we would rightly regard as criminal in their treatment of their workers, it is very important not to confuse these incidents with the phenomenon of globalization. It is a good thing that Wal-Mart is encouraging more humane standards in its supplier's factories.”

“A new institution with new design, structure, body, soul, new thinking, and direction will replace the Planning Commission. It will be one that caters to the aspirations of 21st century India.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“The world is divided into 2 streams - the one of 'Vistarvaad' & and the other of 'Vikasvaad'. Vikasvaad is indispensable in 21st Century! India & Japan need to join hands to take the pride of Vikasvaad to greater heights.”

World Needs Hands Motivation Greater Century Pride India Height Streams Japan Divided 21st Century Indispensable Greater Heights

Author:Narendra Modi

“I see Lord Buddha in the 21st Century across national borders, across faith systems, across political ideologies, playing the role of a bridge to promote understanding to counsel patience and to enlighten us with tolerance and empathy.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.”

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Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“Launching Collins in the U.S. fulfills the original vision of the 1989 union of Harper & Row and William Collins. Publishing has clarified the many benefits of working as a global company. I believe that a true 21st century publisher is a global publisher. Harper Collins is well on its way.”

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Author:David D. Friedman

“We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.”

Should Book Games Century Fairs Including Violent 21st Century Toilets Fair Game Reprisal Flushing

Author:Sam Harris

“Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.”

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Author:Gerhard Schroder

“An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.”

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Author:Adam Ant

“I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.”

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Author:Geena Davis

“We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived very quiet lives. Maybe we don't know a lot about a lot them but what I'm saying is the saints of the 21st century are gonna be regular people - people who've kissed other people. They're gonna be married people.”

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Author:Lino Rulli

“We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.”

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Author:Dennis Kucinich

“I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked back at the 20th and 21st centuries a thousand years from now, what their perception of the car would be. Or of television. I wonder if over time, they'll be seen as this thing that drove the culture, but ultimately had more downside than upside.”

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Author:Chuck Klosterman

“I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book, you don't know who reads it. But every line, I write a million people, they read it, and then they insult me, they love me, they discuss, they give an opinion instantly, immediately. They are completely in communication, immediately. That is a real art.”

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Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.”

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Author:Vince Gilligan

“I’m a Republican who embraces science and understands we have to work with the next generation of Millennials to have the innovation and technology so that we can grow a 21st century economy.”

Next Grows Technology Economy Generations Century Republican Innovation Embrace 21st Century Next Generation Millennials

Author:George Pataki

“We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century.”

Ifs Problem Together America Lines Party Century Solve Working Together 21st Century No Problem

Author:George Pataki

“If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.”

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Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“As we move forward into this 21st century, we encourage all of you to take a positive step toward universal understanding. Touch people with the message of love. Pray for the peace and happiness of people in all other lands and cultures. Make a commitment to world peace by honoring the earth, honoring its people, and celebrating the unity of the human spirit.”

“Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse.”

“I'd been a Superman fan since the time I was a little kid. We had great respect for the Donner movie, and Superman II with Terence Stamp as Zod but I felt it was time to bring the character into the 21st century.”

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Author:Charles Roven

“To teach your child to only be a Muslim in Muslim spaces or only a Christian in Christian spaces means in a way that you're teaching them a religious identity that is relevant to only a very small part of their lives, because the vast majority of their lives in the 21st century are going to be lived in interaction with others.”

“We need to be much more far thinking in this new 21st century era of - of nation state failures and conflict. It's not just about getting rid of a single dictator. It is about understanding the secondary and third consequences that fall next.”

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Author:Martin O'Malley

“In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Law Number XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a westerly direction, preferably supersonic, crossing time zones to provide the additional hours needed to fix the broken electronics.”

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Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the 21st century.”

Country Stories Together Century South Legacy South Africa 21st Century Success Stories

Author:David Cameron

“What is the spirituality we need for the 21st century? We face a choice: to retire from this fray into some marshmallow paradise where we can massage away the heat of the day, the questions of the time, the injustice of the age, and live like pious moles in the heart of a twisted world. Or, we can gather our strength - our spiritual strength - for the struggle it will take to wake up from this pious sleep.”

“Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at launch of the National Millennium Trails Program, 1999)”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.”

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Author:Barry W. Lynn

“We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.”

“I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.”

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Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.”

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Author:Kathryn Bigelow

“And they stuck to their guns and fought for Sean Connery, and they were right to fight for Sean Connery. If it wasn't for Sean Connery, we wouldn't all be here. I was raised to fight for what I believed in, so I wasn't going to give up. I wanted Daniel Craig, and Michael wanted Daniel Craig, so we just stuck to our guns. Fortunately, we had the right management who really stuck with us. Thanks to that, we got our choice. He's been an extraordinary Bond, and he is very much the right Bond for the 21st century.”

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Author:Barbara Broccoli

“The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.”

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Author:Tony Blair

“The choice before us is simple. Will we continue to subsidize the dirty fossil fuels of the past, or will we transition to 21st century clean, renewable energy?”

Past Choices Energy Simple Century Clean Dirty Fuel Transition 21st Century Fossils Fossil Fuel Renewable Energy

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.”

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Author:Gary Zukav

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