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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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• 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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• And their pals vote for their stuff when they’re not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.

  Charlton Heston

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• If the 20th century taught us anything, it is to be cautious about the work impossible.

  Charles Michael Platt

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• Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

  Ralph Adams Cram

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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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• Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

  Raymond Daniel Manczarek Jr

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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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• I think one of the important things that’s happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

  Ron Chernow

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• Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

  Ron Chernow

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• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

  C. Everett Koop

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

  Claude Debussy

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

  Todd Gitlin

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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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• I am a person of the 18th century.

  Cecilia Bartoli

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

  David Hockney

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• Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

  Russell Lynes

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