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The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society. ↗

— Ron Kind

#ability #america #century #creative #determining

On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#about #afford #australia #australians #cannot

What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#alternative #among #been #bring #central

You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again. ↗

— Raphael Saadiq

#building #i #know #played #playing

Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century. ↗

— Mikhail Saakashvili

#best #century #happened #solidarity #thing

It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective. ↗

— Alicia Sacramone

#after #away #being #body #comeback

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#century #exhaustion #experienced #first #forgetting

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#american #art #art form #century #film

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#because #business #business school #century #classes

The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity; and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#also #amount #atmosphere #caused #clear