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#century

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It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century.


Lawrence Summers


#21st century #allow #century #european #even

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.


Lawrence Summers


#back #banking #century #crises #depression

This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier.


Cass Sunstein


#century #healthier #law #lives #longer

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.


Andy Goldsworthy


#between #bridge #case #century #makes

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.


John McGahern


#changes #different #feel #good #grew

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.


Sarah Polley


#century #get #i #i think #need

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.


Alfred Leslie Rowse


#filthy #guts #hate #i #twentieth

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.


Baron de Montesquieu


#day #liberties #lose #may #miss

Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resurrection of old things discovered in a dead thing... and the Gospel according to St. Thomas... was a new thrust like the titanic thrust of Gothic engineering; and its strength was in a God that makes all things new.


G.K. Chesterton


#civilization #culture #europe #history #renaissance

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.


Oliver North


#billion #century #combat #dollars #fact






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