#century

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

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I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#approach #better #capitalist #century #challenges

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#create #done #excitement #heck #helped

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#complete #could #even #hundred #i

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#also #century #complacent #history #humankind

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony. ↗

— Edward Witten

#anyone #beauty #century #einstein #equations

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry. ↗

— Loretta Young

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To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#actor #art #art form #feel #form