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For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.

~Benjamin E. Mays

Topics: Almost Believe Century Communicating Convinced Itself Knew Made Mind Nation Nearly Negroes Only People Really South Southern Southerners Were White

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Last century we needed lawyers; this century we need big, broad coalitions. When extremists decide to attack all our communities, they must hope that there will be infighting. But we have stood all for one and one for all. That is how we will win.

~Benjamin Todd Jealous

Topics: Attack Big Broad Century Coalition Communities Decide Extremists Hope How Last Last Century Lawyers Must Need Needed Our Stood Will Win

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The Lord wants us to follow His righteous life, but yet we have to exist in the 21st century. You can't be going about riding a bicycle and to travel the world... that is not smart.

~Benny Hinn

Topics: About Bicycle Century Exist Follow Going His Life Lord Riding Righteous Smart Travel Us Wants World You 21St Century

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Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.

~Bernard Beckett

Topics: Carry Century Different Enlightenment God Great Limited Machinery Men Mostly Our Our World Plan Quest Scientists Thought Uncover Very Were Who World 19Th Century

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With the sole exception of President Bill Clinton, whose 'bridge to the 21st century' evoked the vision and optimism of other great Democratic presidents of the 20th century, such as FDR and John F. Kennedy, pessimism about America's economic future has been the hallmark of modern progressivism.

~Bernard L. Schwartz

Topics: About America Been Bill Bill Clinton Bridge Century Clinton Democratic Economic Exception Future Great Hallmark John John F. Kennedy Kennedy Modern Optimism Other Pessimism President Presidents Progressivism Sole Vision Whose 20Th Century 21St Century

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People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism.

~Bernard Williams

Topics: Been Century Criticism Days Death Last Literary People Philosophy Predicting Replaced Saying Since Sociology Student Then Were Would

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Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

~Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Topics: Century Consists Creativity Did Know Left Little Merely More Often Only Right Shoes Than Thought Turning Up Were You

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Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.

~Bernie Sanders

Topics: Century Energy Energy Policy Fate Mitt Need Plan Planet Policy Relic Romney Stake 21St Century 19Th Century

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In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.

~Bertrand Piccard

Topics: Century Fight Heroes Improve Introduce Life More People Poverty Quality Quality Of Life Sustainability Think Who Will I Think 21St Century

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What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

~Bertrand Piccard

Topics: Aviation Brought Century History Inspire Inventors New Ourselves Should The History Of Us 20Th Century

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