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• The Sophists’ paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

  David Antin

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• Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

  Dave Anderson

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• It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

  Freeman Dyson

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• Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

  Pat Sajak

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• We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow – too narrow.

  Francis Maude

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• Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.

  Palmiro Togliatti

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• Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

  Barbara Amiel

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• This young century will be liberty’s century.

  George W. Bush

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• The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

  Stephen E. Ambrose

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• A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

  Todd Gitlin

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• For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

  Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount

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• Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother’s family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.

  Aaron Klug

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• Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

  Simon Newcomb

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• There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.

  Shigeru Yoshida

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• Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

  Gavin Bryars

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• The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

  Claude Debussy

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• Women have always been courageous… They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

  Isabel Allende

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• I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

  Christiane Amanpour

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• Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

  Russell Lynes

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