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“America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.”

Firsts Wells Problem America Company Century Twenties Entering Nineteenth Century Business Problems

Author:Michael Martin Hammer

“I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.”

People Feels Stills Felt Century Like You Twenties Mediums Enthusiasm Cinema 20th Century

Author:Peter Greenaway

“Man is unable to accurately predict events which are but twenty-four hours distant; only the Divine Mind could have foretold the future, centuries before it came to be. Hence, we affirm with the utmost confidence, that the hundreds of fulfilled prophecies in the Bible attest and demonstrate the truth that the Scriptures are the inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God.”

Men Mind Hours Four Century Events Divine Twenties Inspired Scripture Word Of God Fulfilled Prophecy Infallible

Book:Divine Inspiration of the Bible

Source: Divine Inspiration of the Bible

“Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.”

People Firsts Today Past Poverty Century Capable Tasks India Twenties Meetings Burden Legacy Aspiration Rising Threshold

Book:Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: statements on foreign policy, May-August 1985

Source: Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: statements on foreign policy, May-August 1985

“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 twenty-first century will be a time of awakening, of meeting the creator within. Many beings will experience oneness with God and with all life. This will be the beginning of the golden age of the new human, of which it has been written; the time of the universal human, which has been eloquently described by those with deep insight among you.”

Firsts Humans Has Beens Age Written Century Universal Twenties Meetings Creator Insight Awakening Golden Oneness Golden Age

Book:Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.”

Firsts Book Hands Century Computer Twenties March Elbows Quake

Author:Ray Bradbury

“To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came to admire Joyce even more because he never ceased working, those words and the transubstantiation of words obsessed him. He was a broken man at the end of his life, unaware that Ulysses would be the number one book of the twentieth century and, for that matter, the twenty-first.”

Men Firsts Book Ends Matter Would Be Numbers Century Broken Letters Twenties Privilege Enormous Admire Obsessed Twentieth Century Joyce Ulysses Broken Man Transubstantiation

Author:Edna O'Brien

“Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal that begins its life in the water, but ends it on land - already, that's pretty weird. But, also, a lot of them are incredibly tiny and look wildly improbable. They have funny little toes, they stretch their throats into weird bubble shapes when they croak, and some of them are poisonous to the touch. I think kids from the twenty-second century might mythologize amphibians the way kids today mythologize dinosaurs.”

“Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.”

Firsts America Parent Century Circumstances Twenties Caring Elderly Sissy

Author:Roz Chast

“'m constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"”

“I don't know how in the twenty-first century we can possibly justify not showing girls things that they can aspire to, and at the same time, how can we possibly be showing boys this narrow vision of what women are and what they can be.”

Knows Firsts Girl Vision Boys Know How Century Twenties Justify Aspire Girl Thing

Author:Geena Davis

“What we have to do is act as clearly and with as pure motivation as is possible now, and that will sow the seeds for good action maybe in the twenty-second century.”

Action Motivation Century Pure Twenties Seeds Good Actions

Author:Pico Iyer

“About four years ago I made a list, for my own amusement, of the playwrights, the contemporary playwrights, by whom critics said I'd been influenced. I listed twenty-five. It included five playwrights whose work I didn't know, so I read these five playwrights and indeed now I suppose I can say I have been influenced by them. The problem is that the people who write these articles find the inevitable similarities of people writing in the same generation, in the same century, and on the same planet, and they put them together in a group.”

“We are in the twentieth or the twenty-first century, but all the thinking, if you speak to one of those people keen on technology - you see that all their thinking is two centuries old. In cinema, you can show this.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Two Shows Speak Technology Century Twenties Cinema

Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“The Reformed tradition at the beginning of the twenty-first century is different as a consequence of this - and different in nontrivial ways. Some may scoff at this, saying that such "developments" don't represent Reformed thought. But by what standard? Perhaps by the Westminster Confession. But this is only one Reformed confession, and it was only ever a subordinate standard.”

Way Firsts May Different Century Development Standards Consequence Tradition Twenties Confession Subordinates Westminster

Author:Oliver D. Crisp

“At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent.”

People Firsts Turns Century Percent Thirds Twenties Income Poorest

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this expectation of a political corrective that demands that the artist fixes the ills of the world.”

World Firsts Wells Young Political Artist Black Interesting Century Demand Expectations Twenties Twentieth Century

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Actually what is happening in the twenty-first century, this is the great century of migration, so we have people from all around the globe going all over the place, and they have to integrate into a society, that society that exists has to integrate with them. Both sides have to work at it. It's not a one-way thing.”

People Way Firsts Sides Century Happenings Twenties One Way Globes Both Sides Integrating Migration

Author:Roma Tearne

“In the end, of course, all novelists will be judged by their novels, but let's not forget that we will also need new ways of assessing the latter. There are people who will continue to write nineteenth-century novels in the early twenty-first, and even win major prizes for them, but that's not very interesting, intellectually or emotionally.”

People Way Needs Writing Firsts Ends Courses Winning Forget Interesting Novel Century Majors Twenties Novelists Latter Prize Judged New Ways Very Interesting Nineteenth Century Assessing

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.”

Way Needs Should Firsts Together Century Diversity Twenties Celebrate Tents Activate True Potential

Author:Eric Liu

“When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.”

People Knows Firsts Gone Century Twenties Mcqueen

Author:Alexander McQueen

“Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.”

Firsts Would Be America Culture Seeing Century Late Twenties Pops Decades Enjoyed Smarter Pop Culture Predicting Touchstones Sopranos

Author:Rob Sheffield

“Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.”

Century Masters Standards Twenties Architecture Nineteenth Century Fourteen Builder Carpenter Masons Apprenticeship

Author:Martin Filler

“The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.”

Ideas Action Lost Heaven Silence Century Information Ignorance Speech Twenties Endless Experiments Invention Dust Cycles Stillness Ideas And Action

Book:The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

“Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.”

Years Firsts Choices Left Answers Century Twenties Socialism Barbarity

Book:The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition

Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition

“We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse - or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible.”

Years Firsts Humans Wells Two Lasts Century Morality Thousand Conversation Argument Twenties Philosophical Insight Well Being Thousand Years Discourse

Author:Sam Harris

“Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.”

Men Way Years May Has Beens Book Running Science Race Half Century Twenties Victim Blow Ink Exploding Handicapped Gunpowder Printer Running Race

Book:The Haunted Bookshop

Source: The Haunted Bookshop

“The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.”

Firsts States Struggle Doubt Century Twenties Corporate No Doubt Twentieth Century Fast Food Nation

Book:Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Source: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”

Men Needs Years Littles Soul States Reason Mother Animal Childhood Century Pure Eternity Twenties Structure Maturity Instant Thirty Vegetables Womb Early Childhood

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.”

Source: Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire

“In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus) Then it’s a good thing we’re in the twenty-first century and not the Dark Ages, isn’t it? (Fang)”

Firsts Age Young Dies Dark Century Twenties Good Things Incapable Dark Ages Fangs Birthing

Book:Born of Ice

Source: Born of Ice

“Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute." "Billy", the teacher cried. "This is the twenty-first century, Women don't need the white knight routine anymore. I can fight my own battles.”

Needs Firsts I Can Fighting My Own White Behinds Teacher Feet Century Battle Twenties Handle Snow Routine Cried Charming Knights Brutes

Book:The Unusual Suspects: The Sisters Grimm, Book Two

Source: The Unusual Suspects: The Sisters Grimm, Book Two

“This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.”

“The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.”

People Thinking World Mind Firsts Said Different Existence Saws Century England Twenties West East Germany Smoking Japan Pot Sixty Coast 1960s Hippie Mind Set West Coast East Coast Sandals

Book:Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

“I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.”

Thinking Firsts Age Technology Century Twenties Innovation Eras Digital Biology Intersections New Era

Book:Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

“Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does.”

Knows Men Firsts Littles Doe Can Do Born Century Twenties Slave Back When Horsemen Mares

Author:Larissa Ione

“It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive." "Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car.”

Firsts Said Century Car Bed Twenties Tanks

Book:To the Nines

Source: To the Nines

“The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.”

People Firsts Challenges Century Standards Twenties Raises Decent Standards Of Living Rest Of Life

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Do people in the twenty-first century still dance?" My heart beat thundered in my ears, far louder than the slow music. "Um," I said, barely able to swallow, my throat had gone so dry. "Sometimes." "How about now?" he asked. And then his strong arms were encircling my waist, his breath soft against my cheek as he gently whispered my name: "Susannah. Susannah...”

People Firsts Heart Said Stills Sometimes Able Names Strong Gone Century Arms My Heart Beats Ears Twenties Breaths Dry Throat Cheeks Heart Beat Strong Arms

Author:Meg Cabot

“If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can last—and no one can concentrate on anything—for longer than about two seconds.”

Ifs Firsts Two Lasts Moving Attention Quality Special Century Expectations Shots Twenties Bored Length Seconds Intensity Moron Friction

Author:Geoff Dyer

“There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably goes like this: Someone shrugs off the weight of his cultural traditions, ignores the baleful stares of authority, and does something his countrymen think to be completely batshit insane. Of those, Galileo was my personal favorite. Van Gogh comes in second, but he really was batshit insane.”

Thinking Doe Century Birth Genius Authority Tradition Weight Twenties Insane Witness Staring Vans Twenty One Countrymen Perks Bearing Witness

Book:The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted

Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted

“How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.”

Light Century Twenties Meetings Get Back Committees Bureaucrats

Author:Peter F. Hamilton

“No alcohol, Riley." She nodded at the screen. "How are you liking the twenty-first century?" Riley burped. "The Take That are most melodic. And God bless Harry Potter is all I can say. If not for him, all of London would have been consumed by the dark arts.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Art I Can Dark Century Twenties London Alcohol Screens Bless Harry Potter Consumed Potters God Bless Dark Art

Book:The Reluctant Assassin (WARP Book 1)

Source: The Reluctant Assassin (WARP Book 1)

“The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.”

“The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.”

Firsts War Water Century Twenties World Water Day Ocean Conservation

Author:Ismail Serageldin

“While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities, still willing to invest in art and poetry's own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.”

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

“His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called "destiny" to maintain grief and horror in the world? How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?”

“This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.”

Giving Firsts Desire Community Responsibility Generations Century Loneliness Identity Duty Members Despair Ethics Lonely Weak Sick Twenties Noble Solidarity Our Generation Persecuted

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994

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