#century

We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live. ↗

— Abdoulaye Wade

#ensure #feel #live #which #wish

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#aspects #back #beauty #became #being

In sum, as we enter the 21st century, the Euro-Atlantic community - North America and Europe together - has to face some tough challenges when it comes to improving our capability. ↗

— Lord Robertson

#america #capability #century #challenges #comes

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#century #few #few people #needed #nineteenth

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#about #affected #another #century #conventions

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#constitution #current #justices #only #read

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#century #eighteenth #eighteenth century #end #revolution

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. ↗

— Albert Camus

#passion #real #real passion #servitude #twentieth

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#during #endeavoured #evolution #evolutionary #half

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#after #became #beginning #century #course