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“What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?”

Needs Firsts Doe Century Personality Machines Twenties Layers Tolerate Bullshit Mechanic

Book:The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good

Source: The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good

“If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Minutes Twenties Tables Gambling Sucker

Author:David Levien

“I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.”

Should Firsts Believe Force I Believe Social Century Majors Concern Twenties Environmental Corporations Very Strong

Author:Bill Ford

“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.”

Years Firsts Humans Stills Two Facts Dies Born Air Creatures Eternal England Twenties Britain Ireland Seventies Foreigners Being Irish Ireland And The Irish

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.”

Firsts Issues Environment Century Security Future Twenties National Security

Book:The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War

Source: The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War

“From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.”

Firsts Twenties Snow First Love Statues Matrimony

Author:Walter Scott

“Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.”

Needs Years Firsts Has Beens Today Winning Process President Years Ago Vote Twenties Iraq Saddam Hussein Twenty One Popular Vote Electoral Process

Author:Jay Leno

“The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.”

Firsts Century Twenties International Definitions Affirmation Alliances Organisation

Author:Chuck Hagel

“In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, .. A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing.”

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Author:Evelyn Lau

“Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.”

“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.”

“Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.”

Firsts Art Stuff Century Twenties Crap

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt