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“We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.”

People War Political Force Understanding Century Communication Chaos Terrorism Billions Tolerance Eras Destructive 21st Century Grappling

Book:Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“The Obama campaign is one of the greatest examples of what is possible in the brave new world of 21st Century marketing. They did a masterful job of connecting with minds, personalizing messages, refining old and new media, sending clear messages, and providing the feedback that enabled them to respond to the messages they heard.”

“We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.”

Trying Cutting Century Industry Future Paint Edges Excitement 21st Century Entering Bricks Carpet Cutting Edge Insulation

Book:Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die, with the awareness that the United States is doing little to mobilise the weapons of mass salvation that could offer them survival, dignity and eventually the escape from poverty.”

“If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.”

Ifs Should Doe Learning Century Demand Response Gaps 21st Century Irrelevant Schooling

Author:David Hood

“Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native born, immigrant, straight or gay - whatever; the test ought to be I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow. I'm building that bridge to the 21st century. That ought to be the test.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.”

America Wealth Century Talent Skills Immigration 21st Century Entrepreneurial Legal Immigration

Author:Jack Kemp

“The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.”

Important America Success Ability Creative Century Factors 21st Century Congratulations Maintaining Innovative

Author:Ron Kind

“We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.”

Culture Technology Century Institutions Speed 21st Century 19th Century

Author:Amory Lovins

“Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds and circumstances with the education and skills necessary to become knowledge workers. If we don't, we run the risk of creating an even larger gap between the middle class and the poor. This gap threatens our democracy, our society and the economic future of America.”

“At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we all have responsibilities as parents, as librarians, as educators, as politicians, and as citizens to instill in our children a love of reading so that we can give them a chance to fulfill their dreams.”

“I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.”

Years Past Leadership Taken Century Familiar Command Uncertainty Reports Companion Leap Territory 21st Century Backwards I'm Sad Command And Control

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.”

Use Ability Creativity Technology Century Innovation Workers Determine Driving 21st Century Marketplace

Author:Ron Kind

“Together, we could open up government and invite citizens in, while connecting all of America to 21st century broadband. We could use technology to help achieve universal health care, to reach for a clean energy future, and to ensure that young Americans can compete - and win - in the global economy.”

“I will set big goals for this country as president - some so large that the technology to reach them does not yet exist.""I will recruit new teachers and make new investments in rural schools, we'll connect all of America to 21st century technology and telecommunications.”

Doe Country Bigs School America Goal President Technology Teacher Century Investment 21st Century Recruit Telecommunications New Teachers

Author:Barack Obama

“The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.”

Way Giving Real Technology Century Students Skills Computer Foundation 21st Century

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.”

Humans Mean Technology Century Concepts Exciting 21st Century Expanding Breakthrough What It Means To Be Human

Author:John Naisbitt

“I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don't know how the laws fit together, and what happens under extreme conditions. But I expect we will find a complete unified theory sometime this century. The is no limit to the complexity that we can build using those basic laws.”

Thinking Knows Matter Happens Together Law Science Next Situation Knowledge Know How Conditions Century Theory Fit Limits Normal Extremes Complexity 21st Century Unified

Author:Stephen Hawking

“The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.”

World Real Century This World Thirds Mark Intelligent Minorities 21st Century January Millennium

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.”

Needs Believe Helping Today Together Energy Century Helping Others Volunteer 21st Century Glue Volunteerism American Society Society Today Inspirational Volunteer Volunteerism And Service

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“As we begin the 21st century, the Hubble space telescope is providing us with information about as yet uncharted regions of the universe and the promise that we may learn something about the origin of the cosmos. This same spirit of adventure is also being directed to the most complex structure that exists in the universe - the human brain.”

“Killing for pleasure is wrong and should be banned. Fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing are moral issues. It is time that we stood up for morality. The commandment Thou shall not kill may be hedged with exceptions.Thou shall not kill for pleasure is not; it is a commandment for the 21st century and it is time that we respected it unambiguously, without prevarication and without procrastination.”

“There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.”

“I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.”

“The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century.”

Century Security Crime Internet Scene 21st Century

Author:Cyrus Vance, Jr.

“Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.”

People Ifs America Force Nations Liberty Wonder Society Century Approach Capacity Innovation 21st Century Alas Adaptation Renewal Inevitability Rejuvenation

Author:John Chancellor

“President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas and the direction America has to take to build the 21st-century version of the American Dream: a nation of shared opportunities, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity, a shared sense of community.”

Ideas Dream America Values Opportunity Nations President Responsibility Century Approach Prosperity Versions President Obama American Dream 21st Century Shared Responsibility

Author:William J. Clinton

“It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew him, and Kinski himself, that he never recovered from Woyzeck. But what was the ultimate result? If you are the viewer of this film, Kinski's portrayal shocks your feelings out of the vault of intellectualizing or passive observing. He forces you to feel with him, to align yourself with your buried emotions. He outs your sensitivity. Is this not something Christ-like? It is, for my money. Kinski is the pure cure for the 21st-century disease - the numbness unto droning.”

“The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a route-map for the UK's transition from here to 2020...every business, every community will need to be involved. Together we can create a more secure, more prosperous low carbon Britain and a world which is sustainable for future generations.”

“t century, hundreds of millions - and eventually billions - of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.”

“As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.”

Feels Economy Democracy Century Threat Prosperity Various Communism Global Warming Ambitious Replaced 21st Century Obliged Environmentalism Market Economy

Author:Vaclav Klaus

“The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.”

World Use Century Climate Change Fuel 21st Century 20th Century Fossils Fossil Fuel

Author:Lester R. Brown

“Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age.”

“The 21st century will be the Asian century. This also means that Asians will be expected to provide greater leadership to solve global challenges, including environmental challenges. Hence, this multi-disciplinary programme from NUS could not be more timely. It meets a pressing need to educate, train and empower leading players in the public, private and civil society sectors in Singapore, Asia and the world.”

“Something is not yet right and ripe in our human society at the beginning of the 21st century and third millennium: missing is an unprecedented vision, boldness and courage to fashion a new, promising, better future. Our beliefs, society, ways of life, institutions and future goals must be reviewed and reappraised fundamentally from scratch.”

“The fact that we did not give the demonstrators in Iran our moral support when a young woman named Neda bled to death in the streets of Iran will go down as one of the great mistakes of the 21st Century.”

Giving Facts Young Mistake Moral Support Streets Century Iran Young Women 21st Century Great Mistakes Moral Support

Author:John McCain

“If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan gamesmanship.”

Ifs America Political Challenges Century Succeed 21st Century Responding Political Systems Partisans Bipartisanship Bogs

Author:Chuck Hagel

“I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity.”

Feels May Doe Different Form Suffering Universe Forget Century Tendencies Arrogance 21st Century 20th Century Posterity Ufo Irritated Vantage Point Provincialism

Author:J. Allen Hynek

“The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.”

“Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of our Nation into the 21st century.”

“The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.”

Ifs World Humanity Interesting Common Century Ethics Exciting Peaceful Eras Rooted 21st Century Most Interesting Interdependence Common Humanity

Author:William J. Clinton

“Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.”

Has Beens Problem Challenges Century Scales 21st Century

Author:William J. Clinton

“At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent”

Looks Clear Century Rate Violent 21st Century

Author:Edward James Olmos

“When people say to me, 'You hate America,' I don't hate America. I love America. I am just embarrassed that it has been taken over by people like evangelicals, by people who do not believe in science and rationality. It is the 21st century. And I will tell you, my friend. The future does not belong to the evangelicals. The future does not belong to religion.”

People Believe Doe Has Beens America Hate Taken Century My Friends Embarrassed 21st Century Rationality Don't Hate

Author:Bill Maher

“For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly, if inadvertently, oppressive and dangerous to our welfare. It must be radically changed and a new system of government invented, a democracy for the 21st century. For this wisdom, above all, I thank Mr. Jefferson who helped create the system that served us so well for so long, and that now must, in its turn, die and be replaced.”

Ifs Wells Long Government Dies Turns Principles Democracy Century Dangerous Changed Including Welfare Replaced 21st Century Obsolete Systems Of Government

Author:Newt Gingrich

“The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers”

“In the eighties and nineties, the innovation agenda was exclusively focused on enterprises. There was a time in which economic and social issues were seen as separate. Economy was producing wealth, society was spending. In the 21st century economy, this is not true anymore. Sectors like health, social services and education have a tendency to grow, in GDP percentage as well as in creating employment, whereas other industries are decreasing. In the long term, an innovation in social services or education will be as important as an innovation in the pharmaceutical or aerospatial industry.”

“With the myriad of new Bible translations on the market today, few stand out. The ESV is one of the few, and surpasses the others in its simple yet elegant style. In many respects the ESV has accomplished in the 21st century what the KJV accomplished in the 17th: a trustworthy, literary Bible that is suitable for daily reading, memorizing, and preaching.”

Today Reading Simple Century Style Accomplished Preaching 21st Century Standing Out Elegant Translations Trustworthy Suitable Memorizing

Author:Daniel B. Wallace

“You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.”

Country Century Fashion Behave 21st Century 19th Century Invading

Author:John F. Kerry

“That's a chapter - the last chapter - of the 20th ... 20th ... the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century.”

Firsts Humor Lasts Political Forget Century Chapters 21st Century 20th Century

Author:George W. Bush

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