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• If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game… In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

  Sir Stanley Rous

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• 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.

  George Robertson

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• The revolutions of my century, the 20th century – the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba – failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century.

  Stephane Hessel

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• We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

  Sam Harris

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• Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

  Victor Davis Hanson

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• You can’t be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven’t laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

  Wayne Swan

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• I am a child of the 21st century.

  John Shelby Spong

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  The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

  Alvin Toffler

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• Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

  Bertrand Russell

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• The young people today are the 21st century.

  Martin Scorsese

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• Film in the 20th century, it’s the American art form, like jazz.

  Martin Scorsese

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• The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

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• My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

  Daniel Nathans

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• And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

  Daniel Libeskind

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• It’s about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.

  Daniel Libeskind

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• My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It’s about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It’s about Washington and the army and the war. It’s the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

  David McCullough

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• A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

  David Hume

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• I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

  David Hockney

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• I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

  David Eagleman

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• The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

  Ida B. Wells

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