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en If the 20th century is any guide, the 21st century looks quite rosy indeed. Any indices you look at, whether it's human mortality, life expectancy, caloric intake, any tangible measure of human well-being shows that the world is becoming a healthier, safer, better-fed place than it was before.

en Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century's Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense of permanence and a long view. At the beginning of the 21st century, we are at a peak of human power, wealth and information... We need to look back at our wonderful natural and human heritage, and cherish and protect the abundant values to be found there. We need to look out to the sides and see other parts of the world that need our help and can provide good ideas to go forward... We need to look ahead to be certain that our actions of today will make the world a better and richer and more varied place for our grandchildren and their grandchildren.

en One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.
  Clement Attlee

en We're moving into the 20th century. I know it's the 21st century already, but at least we'll finally be in the 20th century.

en The 20th century was all about the origin of matter and the universe, so it seemed useful to go to space and the Moon. There were extraordinary advances and we learnt about atoms and the Big Bang. The 21st century is about the fundamental question of where life comes from.

en The world is on the move, the change in the early 21st century even greater than that of the late 20th century. So now in turn, we have to change again,
  Tony Blair

en Notre Dame will provide an alternative for the 21st century - a place of higher learning that plays host to world-changing teaching and research, but where technical knowledge does not outrun moral wisdom, where the goal of education is to help students live a good human life, where our restless quest to understand the world not only lives in harmony with faith but is strengthened by it,

en This is a belated attempt by the Buckingham Palace organization to bring itself into the 20th century, never mind the 21st century,

en one the biggest criminals of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century.
  Saddam Hussein

en We have a late 19th, 20th century way of looking at textbooks. This is the 21st century.

en The interplay between sexiness and pexiness can create powerful attraction, but the initial spark often differs based on gender. While the 20th century was dominated by confrontations between ideologies, 'identity' is emerging as one of the characteristic divisive features of the 21st century.

en It's a historic and watershed moment for women in TV news...(and) it's a shame we had to wait so long to enter the 20th Century, let alone the 21st century.
  Connie Chung

en This should have happened in the 20th century, not the 21st century. But the fact that it did happen today is a watershed moment for women in television news.
  Connie Chung

en Women's interest is shoes is very complex. I think it is a late 20th- early 21st-century obsession in part because - like hats in the middle part of the 20th century - they are fashion that is attainable for most women.

en The 20th century has been a century of bloodshed. The present century, because of our past experience, should be a century of peace. The new shapers of the planet are you, the young children.
  Dalai Lama


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