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“The Gospel that worked in the 20th Century may not work in the 21st Century. The reason is because it is truncated. It only speaks of "Sin and Salvation" and not of the COSMIC GOSPEL that transforms all things.”

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Author:Peter Robinson

“The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources...The world will eventually leave the age of oil, but there is no geologic reason for this to happen until near the end of the 21st century.”

World Ends Reason Happens Would Be Age Moving Energy Mistake Economic Century Source Oil Expensive Proven 21st Century Energy Sources Petroleum

Author:David Deming

“I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine over all.”

Children Century Machines Phones 21st Century Phone Calls Texting Answering Machines

Author:Brendan Dooling

“The Russians and rogue actors, including ISIS - this is a serious part of the 21st century security challenge that we face.”

Faces Actors Challenges Century Security Serious Including 21st Century Isis Rogues

Author:Jeb Bush

“I felt no obligation to bow to any 21st Century political correctness. What I did feel an obligation to do was to take the 21stCentury viewers and physically transport them back to the ante bellum South in 1858, in Mississippi, and have them look at America for what it was back then. And I wanted it to be shocking.”

Feels Looks Wanted America Political Felt Century South Obligation Bows 21st Century Viewers Shocking Political Correctness Transport Mississippi Correctness

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating the city seriously as a major economic and cultural power, as the embodiment of 21st century America.”

Writing Book Done Bigs Wanted America Cities Economic Century Majors Ambitious 21st Century Embodiment

Author:James Frey

“AIDS is the leprosy of the 21st Century. Where did Jesus hang out? With lepers. Jesus would love on people with AIDS.”

People Jesus Century Aids Hanging Out 21st Century Leper Leprosy

Author:Rick Warren

“How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“That seems to be a woman who is genuinely depressed that this is the political dialogue she [Hillary Clinton] is been thrown into in the 21st century in running for president of the United States.”

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Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.”

Sometimes Done Century Educational 21st Century Kicking Educational System Duncan

Author:Barack Obama

“As president, I will ensure that the United States is the global energy powerhouse of the 21st century.That means reinstating the Keystone XL Pipeline that President[Barack] Obama rejected. It also means rolling back the regulations from this administration that limit our ability to find resources by imposing regulations on hydraulic fracturing and our ability to be energy independent by regulating drilling on federal lands. As president, I will make America an energy leader through technology and innovation.”

“We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful.”

Thinking Knows Ideas Wanted Past Wonderful Century Creating Europe Excited Shoulders Britain Sensibility 21st Century Blast Rubbish

Author:David Bowie

“It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world. To our credit as a species, we have turned this obscure scientific fact about carbon cycles into one of the most important political issues of the 21st century.”

“I guess it's kind of the obvious thing for me to do 'cuz it's what I grew up listening to. The songs growing up and everything kind of seem like old music to them, but to me, it's just... good music. And of course I did grow up in England in the 21st Century and that does come into it as well.”

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Author:George Ezra

“We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.”

Thinking Want Writing Believe Persons Ideas Self Hard Lying Belief Novel Century Awareness Serious Self Awareness Stuck Narrative Falsehood 21st Century Thinking Person

Author:Michael Helm

“I believe that America has the opportunity to once again live by our values, live up to our values in the 21st century, but I think that America can only do that if Americans can succeed. And there are lots of reasons why Americans today are feeling left out and left behind.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Reason Feelings Today America Values Opportunity Left I Believe Behinds Century Succeed Reason Why Live By 21st Century Left Behind Left Out

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I want to get the economy going again. It's not just enough about what we're against, as important as that is. I have a plan to create new jobs, manufacturing, infrastructure, clean energy jobs that will make us the 21st century clean energy super power. I also want to make sure small businesses can start and grow again.”

Want Important Enough Jobs Energy Grows Economy Plans Century Clean 21st Century Small Business Infrastructure Manufacturing New Job Clean Energy Super Power

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I would say that folks who have looked at this issue for a long time, whether it's Elizabeth Warren or many other economists, will tell you that right now, yes, we do need a 21st century Glass-Steagall legislation.”

Needs Long Issues Century Right Now Long Time Folks Glasses Legislation 21st Century Economist

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Because I had some roles that resonated with women, I immediately noticed that there were far more male characters than female characters in what we're showing little kids in the 21st century, which was stunning to me. But I couldn't find anybody else who noticed.”

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Author:Geena Davis

“I always try to connect with what's happening in the world-reality, modernity, the 21st century, all that - and with Jil it started to feel very disconnected from the outside and how women were looking at fashion, experiencing fashion, interpreting fashion.”

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Author:Raf Simons

“Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.”

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Author:Zoe Kazan

“It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's the 21st century and music doesn't mean the same things to people and that it's so disposable.”

People Mean Song Easy Century Seconds Idols 21st Century Reducing Disposable American Idol

Author:Alan Light

“He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique organization in the Islamic world. It's multiethnic, multilinguistic, multinational. He is a combat veteran, three times wounded. He has a huge reputation in the Islamic world for generosity and leadership. He's a man who speaks eloquent, almost poetic Arabic, according to Bernard Lewis.”

“It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.”

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Author:Bassem Youssef

“What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.”

Trying Self Wanted Names Land Century Figures Okay Contemporary Landscape Urban 21st Century Alienation Urban Landscape

Author:DJ Spooky

“It's the 21st century, and somebody has to rise from within this faith tradition and retranslate it for the post-modern world... The Earth is not the center of the universe, therefore, God is not a being who lives above the sky, who splits the Red Sea from time to time, or creates a miracle, or whatever.”

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Author:John Shelby Spong

“We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the struggle for equality for the gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. And I think it's important for Americans to know about the times that we failed.”

People Thinking Knows Important Struggle Rights Century Movement Gay Slavery Civil Rights Inequality 21st Century Transgender Civil Rights Movement

Author:George Takei

“A vision of Europe fit for the 21st century and a practical plan to deliver strong rights, decent jobs and livelihoods, with strong unions at its heart, is one worth fighting for.”

Heart Jobs Fighting Strong Vision Rights Plans Century Fit Europe Unions Practicals Decent 21st Century Livelihood Worth Fighting For

Author:Frances O'Grady

“The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.”

People Firsts Century Genocide 21st Century Armenians

Author:Pope Francis

“I think our initiative with respect to education and economic development can work in Saudi Arabia and it is up to the Saudis to decide how they wish to transform their society in order to make it prepared for the challenges of the 21st century.”

Thinking Order Wish Challenges Economic Century Development Prepared Initiative 21st Century Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Economic Development

Author:Colin Powell

“The initial spark that promoted me to start Not For Sale was human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led me to take a journey around the world on how this could exist in the 21st century.”

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Author:David Batstone

“I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of the 21st century.”

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Author:Frank Lautenberg

“We also wanted to change the story - change the approach to the 21st century on energy, on education, on transportation, on infrastructure, generally, and it laid the groundwork for that. And one of the reasons I'm doing this trip is not only to say what we did worked, but to say we should do more of this.”

Should Reason Stories Wanted Energy Century Approach 21st Century Infrastructure Transportation Groundwork

Author:Joe Biden

“You turn on the television, it's like, "Woah is me! God almighty, we're awful." We are so down and out we are - name me a country in the world, name me one leader anywhere in the world who wouldn't trade places in a heartbeat. We by far, we're going to own the 21st century.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“I think a revolution transitioning from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy - somebody's going to be the 21st-century clean-energy superpower.”

Thinking Energy Century Revolution Clean Fuel 21st Century Fossils Fossil Fuel Superpower Renewable Energy Clean Energy

Author:Hillary Clinton

“[In] the 21st century, the mainstream can satisfy your every whim. I guess the idea of walking around with groups of people dressed the same and saying, "I'm only into ska" or "I'm only into whatever" - is kind of restrictive in the 21st century. I don't know if it's a bad thing that these movements have run their course. I think what I miss about it is the collective experience.”

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Author:Don Letts

“I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.”

World Made Four Groups Century Musician Pops Opening Online 21st Century Opening Up

Author:Paul Morley

“No one can survive on their own. Thinking you can is ridiculous, especially going into the middle half of the 21st century. To think you can do it alone is just ridiculous.”

Thinking Can Do Half Middle Century Ridiculous 21st Century You Can Do It

Author:Chris Pine

“The serious work for feminism in the 21st century is across the globe. Instead of retreating into "safe spaces" and focusing on their own imagined oppression, today's feminists should be reaching out to women's groups in the developing world.”

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Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“The Republicans want to take us forward to the dark ages again ... when women were property that you could easily control, even trade if you wanted to. It's appalling we are having this debate in the 21st century.”

Ifs Want Age Wanted Dark Century Republican Trade Property Debate 21st Century Dark Ages

Author:Frank Lautenberg

“I believe that we have the first genius of the 21st century, Leo Messi.”

Firsts Believe I Believe Century Genius 21st Century Messi Leo Messi

Author:Jorge Valdano

“No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.”

Ifs Knows Humans Brain Century Dangerous Late Approach Suspects 21st Century Robots Chips Human Intelligence

Author:Michio Kaku

“What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into the image of perfection that ruled the day in the 18th and 19th centuries. It's an antiquated language, but I think we've inherited that language and have forwarded it to its most useful points in the 21st century.”

Thinking Language Century Anxiety Perfection Oneself Intense Obsession Portraits 21st Century 19th Century

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“What's great about it is that painting doesn't move. And so in the 21st century, when we're used to clicking and browsing and having constant choice, painting simply sits there silently and begs you to notice the smallest of detail.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“It never really understood its own situational luxury. And I think that by and large the privilege of being Kehinde Wiley in the 21st century, making these high-priced luxury goods, traveling the world, pointing at these people, behooves me to have a point of view and to say something about it.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I sincerely believe what happens in India has, I think, lessons, morals for the future evolution of humankind in the 21st century.”

Thinking Believe Happens Moral Century Evolution Lessons India Humankind 21st Century Sincerely

Author:Manmohan Singh

“I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.”

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Author:Manmohan Singh

“I have been very clear about the necessity for doing whatever is required to move the VA into the 21st century.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“Do we really want to base our 21st-century policy on what the colonialist preferred at a certain time in history, not at all based on health or what the preferences of different cultures might be? That's just ridiculous.”

Want Different Might Certain Culture Century Policy Ridiculous 21st Century Preference Different Cultures

Author:Maia Szalavitz

“I support moving toward more clean, renewable energy as quickly as we can, because I think we [America] can be the 21st century clean energy superpower and create millions of new jobs and businesses.”

Thinking Jobs America Moving Energy Millions Support Century Clean 21st Century Superpower Renewable Energy New Job Clean Energy

Author:Hillary Clinton

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