Top Century Quotes
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
Lewis Mumford
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.
Tran Duc Luong
In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.
Michael Behe
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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Joschka Fischer 
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To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz 
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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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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
S. J. Perelman
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After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
Philip Zimbardo
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The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
Stephen Ambrose
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
Ralph A. Cram
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