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“The West doesn't have to love us. In fact, we should ask ourselves more often why people are so suspicious of us. After all, the West isn't a charity organization. How have we been perceived for centuries? As a huge, warlike realm ruled by despots - first by the czars and then Bolsheviks. Why should anyone have loved us? If we want to be accepted, we have to do something in return. And it's an art that we have yet to master.”

People Ifs Want Should Firsts Art Facts Asks Century Masters Huge Return Organization West Charity Accepted Realms Suspicious Despots Bolsheviks Czars

Author:Vladislav Surkov

“If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century!”

Ifs Littles Has Beens Mankind Century Moon Gold Shining 19th Century

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries!”

Ifs Mean Said Century

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.”

Ifs Christian Church White Records Century Tragedy Height Historian White Supremacy Twentieth Century Supremacy

Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.”

Ifs Firsts Running Three Nations Poor Century Dying Surrender Flags Observance Maple

Author:Charlotte Whitton

“Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to something demonstrably less legible than something else would be if we could get used to it, we should make no effort to scrap the existing thing. This was done by the Florentines and Romans of the fifteenth century; it requires simply good sense in the originators & good will in the rest of us.”

Ifs Should Done Would Be Used Effort Practice Century Amount Accustomed Good Will Good Sense Scrap Legibility

Author:Eric Gill

“If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.”

Ifs Clear Century Lessons Aggression

Author:Bob Dole

“If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.”

Ifs May Laughing Century Missing Jokes Colossal Laugh At Yourself

Author:Barry Humphries

“There are at least two distinct meanings of 'hot': there is the, like, normal human definition which is that 'this individual seems suitable for mating'. And then there's the weird, culturally constructed definition of 'hot' which means, 'that individual is malnourished and has probably had plastic bags inserted into her breasts'. Like, I think if you went back to the 18th century and asked a 15-year-old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?' that 15-year-old boy would probably be like ... 'What's plastic?'”

Ifs Thinking Years Humans Mean Two Seems Individual Boys Century Normal Hot Definitions Breasts Bags Plastic Suitable 18th Century Mating Plastic Bags

Author:John Green

“During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.”

Ifs World Years Two Past Energy Given Dark Our Lives Century Projects Innovation Continuing Life Span

Author:Bill Gates

“I think that anybody from the 20th century, up to now, has to be aware that if it wasn't for Louis Armstrong, we'd all be wearing powdered wigs. I think that Louis Armstrong loosened the world, helped people to be able to say "Yeah," and to walk with a little dip in their hip. Before Louis Armstrong, the world was definitely square, just like Christopher Columbus thought.”

People Ifs Thinking World Littles Able Walks Century Yeah Hips Squares 20th Century Columbus Dip Wigs Armstrong

Author:Hugh Masekela

“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.”

“If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more modest circumstances. But all those new branches of industry which supply the masses with articles unheard of before, would operate, if at all, on a much smaller scale, and their products would be beyond the reach of the common man.”

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

“The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we do not, ourselves, understand and follow its truths. The pattern of the Great Spirit is over us all, but if we follow our own spirits from within, our pattern becomes clearer. For centuries, others have sought their visions. They prepare themselves, so that if the Creator desires them to know their life's purpose, then a vision would be revealed. To be blessed with visions is not enough...we must live them!”

Ifs Knows Enough Would Be Spirit Desire Purpose Vision Century Blessed Mere Patterns Creator Possession Being Blessed Great Spirit

Author:Tim McCoy

“Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.”

Ifs Men Play Lying Belief Impossible Century Balance Tragedy Optimistic Curious Pessimist Pathos

Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

“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.”

Ifs Giving Wanted Choices Fighting Century Giving Up Gun Management Raised Extraordinary Stuck Thanks 21st Century Our Choices Sean

Author:Barbara Broccoli

“I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals.”

Ifs Seems Reading Stars Morning Written Middle Century Newspapers 19th Century Middle Aged

Author:John Lennon

“Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.”

Ifs Different Wanted Century Capitalism Communicate 20th Century Framework

Author:Yoko Ono

“It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.”

People Ifs Ideas Form Millions Economic Century Despair Hundred Socialism New Ideas 20th Century Stagnation

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with everything we know of the workings of the human mind, and with every sound idea formulated by mankind. If it prevailed in the whole modern world we'd still be in the Thirteenth Century; nay, we'd be back among the Egyptians of the pyramid age. Its only coherent contribution to Western thought has been theosophy-and theosophy is as idiotic as Christian Science. It has absolutely nothing to offer a civilized white man.”

“I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.”

“If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.”

“Technologically I live in the 17th century. I have a very simple cell phone. I say I live through the kindness of strangers, because if they see something on the Net they type it out and send it to me.”

Ifs Simple Kindness Century Type Phones Stranger Cells Cell Phone 17th Century

Author:Iris Apfel

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

Ifs Meditation Century University Physics 21st Century Lectures Catalogues

Author:Gary Zukav

“If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.”

Ifs Has Beens Fantasy Century Figures Capitalism Argument Planning Socialism Contests Twentieth Century Demonstrating Hayek Central Planning Knockouts

Author:Kenneth Minogue

“As I travel around the world, it's fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to be the world leader for another century - if we can fix some of this political dysfunction. ... We've got a lot of national security challenges, but if we get our economy together, and if we can get our political system to work well, I am really confident about our future.”

“If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.”

Ifs Want Watches Century Stage Tolerance Comedian Wizards

Book:Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen

Source: Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen

“It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual.”

Ifs War Seems Individual Community Half Century Tug Of War

Author:Lauren Groff

“If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be participants in our popular democracy. And then at the turn of the century when more and more immigrants are coming into the schools, Americanization becomes a more explicit part of the agenda.”

Ifs Looks Children Ideas School Turns Democracy Century Immigrants Agendas Voters Educate Nineteenth Century Participants Explicit

Author:Dana Goldstein

“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

“America has never had a very wide vocabulary for miscegenation. We say we like diversity, but we don't like the idea that our Hispanic neighbor is going to marry our daughter. America has nothing like the Spanish vocabulary for miscegenation. Mulatto, mestizo, Creole - these Spanish and French terms suggest, by their use, that miscegenation is a fact of life. America has only black and white. In eighteenth-century America, if you had any drop of African blood in you, you were black.”

Ifs Ideas Facts Use America Black Term White Blood Century Diversity Daughter Wide Neighbor Black And White Vocabulary Facts Of Life Hispanic Our Daughter Creole Miscegenation Mulattoes

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“I guess if there was a desert island scenario and I only could take one font with me, I guess it would be Helvetica, though it has it's limitations, I think it's incredibly versatile and gets the job done and I also think it's one of the typefaces that will really survive the test of time beyond the next several decades if not into the next century.”

Ifs Thinking Done Would Be Jobs Next Century Tests Decades Limitation Desert Islands Scenarios Versatile Get The Job Done Test Of Time Fonts Typefaces Helvetica

Author:Khoi Vinh

“Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in the cultural landscape and, above all.”

Ifs Thinking Important Ideas Space Century Albums Landscape Visuals 20th Century Vocabulary

Author:DJ Spooky

“Prior to the early 20th century, for the totality of humankind's existence if they saw something moving, it meant it was there. If they saw a tiger walking, that meant they were near a live tiger. This was entrenched in our subconscious and our unconscious.Then that drastically changed with film and television.”

Ifs Film Moving Existence Saws Century Changed Television Walking Unconscious Humankind Subconscious Tigers 20th Century Totality Film And Television

Author:Chuck Klosterman

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