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“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.”

Knows Firsts Wells Stills Ends Character Past Mystery Century First Time Speed Posts Flash Rolling Our Thoughts Bent Tweet Paragraph Know It All 140 Character Rolling Along

Author:Ali Smith

“Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.”

Wells Stills Fun Brain Records Alive Century Intense Having Fun Pace 21st Century Vintage I Am Alive

Author:Tony Visconti

“The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.”

Years Wells Christian Night Found Practice Century Drug Sick Patient Stores Medical Ignorant Dull Physicians Day And Night Eighteen Hideous Dose

Author:Mark Twain

“If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).”

Ifs Wells Two Past Science Nature Natural Saws Century Function Assuming Physics Mathematical Engineering Equations Hammers Continuity Differential Equations

Book:The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward

Source: The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward

“A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent.”

Men Way Years Wells Stills Three Lost Century Thousand Hundred Reverence Boston Crooked Precedent Calves

Book:Whiffs from Wild Meadows

Source: Whiffs from Wild Meadows

“The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.”

People Wells May War Humanity Greater Century Bird Affliction 20th Century Viruses Flu Tolls Scourge Havoc Pandemics Influenza

Author:David L. Katz

“The United States ... has been proud of its association with the State of Israel. We shall continue to stand with Israel. We are committed to Israel's survival and security. The United States for a quarter of a century has had an excellent relationship with the State of Israel. We have cooperated in many, many fields - in your security, in the well-being of the Middle East, and in leading what we all hope is a lasting peace throughout the world.”

Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President

“Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.”

Way Giving Wells Children Littles Said Facts Seems Might Advice Century Giving Up Function Prepared Critics Congress Profit Seeking New Ways Be Prepared Huxley Preconceived Notions

Book:Selected speeches

Source: Selected speeches

“Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.”

Wells May Economy Century Keys Everyday Complexity Everyday Life 21st Century

Author:Jamais Cascio

“An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.”

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.”

Wells Able Christian Middle Century Jew East Middle East

Author:Karen Armstrong