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“We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.”

Ifs Faces Next Impossible Generations Century Add Ecology Impossibility Solemn Unthinkable Petra

Book:Nonviolence Speaks to Power

Source: Nonviolence Speaks to Power

“September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East.”

Age Faces Night Stuff Middle Century Conflict Enlightenment Islam East Nuclear Landscape Indian Middle East September Irrational Arena Medieval September 11 Jihad Bronze Old Stuff Anachronism

Author:Martin Amis

“The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces -- and voices.”

World Has Beens Faces Evil Names Voice Powerful Numbers Attention Share Century Mass Victim Monsters Graves Sheer Powerless Faceless

Book:Carrion Comfort

Source: Carrion Comfort

“Here is Christianity. Whence came it? It is a force in the world, a prodigious force. It has revolutionized society. It has lifted man out of himself. It has changed the face of the world. There it lies, imbedded in more than eighteen centuries of human history; and history of no mean sort, the best record of the race.”

Men World Humans Mean Faces Lying Force Race Christianity Records Century Changed Human History Eighteen Prodigious

Book:Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

Source: Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

“The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.”

Men Age Faces Poor Results Wife Century Ready Bottom Greed Lust Innocence Making Love Employed Neighbour Grind Nineteenth Century Refrain Pinching Love Lust

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.”

Faces Rooms Wife Doors Century Husband Blow Revenge Drawing Contempt Nineteenth Century

Book:The Red and the Black

Source: The Red and the Black

“We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'. A small nose is a cork on the bottle of the opposite vices.”

Men Faces Doors Century Opposites Intelligent Vices Noble Noses Generous Thirty Bottles Prudent Courteous Cork Affable

Author:Cyrano de Bergerac

“The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end.”

Has Beens Ends Bigs Faces Century Industry Internet Computer Importance Reactions Corporations Big Corporations

Author:Douglas Adams

“This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own spiritual yearnings in the biggest possible context, in such a way that is going to compel us to finally transcend our self-concern. We need to find the heart to come together in such a way that will enable us to face the challenges before us. And to do this, we need a new spirituality. We need a new enlightenment.”

Way Needs Firsts Heart Self Together Faces Spiritual Spirituality Challenges Courage Century Enlightenment Concern Twenties Yearning

Author:Andrew Cohen

“We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.”

Men May Facts Able Faces Used Courses Lost Loss Attention Century Demand Intellectual Capacity Machines Innocence Denial Capability Nineteenth Century

Book:Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Source: Notes on the Synthesis of Form

“The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became necessary to invent it. Georges Minois writes with empathy, erudition, and a novelist's sense of buildup and timing, weaving in the parallel story of Europe's courageous freethinkers. In the face of today's social and even legal pressures against criticizing religion, it is good to see an honorable French tradition asserting itself.”

“Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless.”

People Looks Persons Faces Poverty Century Photograph Timeless Homeless Homeless People Dostoyevsky

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“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.”

“The right way to proceed when we face the kind of challenges we face is to pursue the strategy which Ronald Reagan pursued when we faced the challenges of the last century.”

Way Kind Lasts Faces Challenges Century Strategy Pursue Right Way Pursued Challenges We Face

Author:Mitt Romney

“Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.”

Needs Firsts Children Whole Faces Careers Achieve Century Balance Tasks Twenties Our Children Educate

Author:Ken Robinson

“The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.”

Giving Feelings Faces Spiritual Consciousness Century Security Tradition Stress Passing Passings Strain

Book:Letters Papers from Prison

Source: Letters Papers from Prison

“At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.”

Knows Want Faces Black Half Know How Doors Century Clothes Frightening Hung Wigs Fuzzy Afros Wreaths Black Face Black Clothes

Author:Bette Davis

“Evangelicals have to face it (like Roman Catholics of 16th century had to): Increasingly, our version of Good News is neither news nor good.”

Faces Century News Catholic Versions Good News Roman Catholic

Author:Samir Selmanovic

“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

“[Several candidates talked of problems with the federal Medicare system, particularly concerns about whether it would cover prescription drug costs in the future.] We're asking senior citizens to make a choice between their health and their income, ... Medicare is probably the most difficult challenge we face in the next century, because it has a lot to do with other things besides money.”

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