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The power in Washington, D.C., is centered on the status quo - outdated systems, models, and programs built for a previous century. With more silicon and less concrete, we can open up those models to return power and independence to every man, woman, and child.

~Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers

Topics: Built Centered Century Child Concrete Every Every Man Independence Less Man Models More Open Outdated Power Previous Programs Quo Return Silicon Status Status Quo Systems Those Up Washington Woman

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I just finished an episode of a new show called 'Century City.' It's like 'Law & Order' set in the future, and I have a very dramatic role in that. I have to sob and weep and wail. It was very hard. When it was done, I was like, 'OK, time to watch 'SpongeBob!'

~Cayden Boyd

Topics: Century City Done Dramatic Episode Finished Future Hard Just Law Like New Ok Order Role Set Show Sob Time Very Wail Watch Weep

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I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.

~Cecilia Bartoli

Topics: Also Century Composer Composers Did Fantastic Greatest Important Lots Love More Music Still Think Would I Think 18Th Century

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I am a person of the 18th century.

~Cecilia Bartoli

Topics: Am Century Person I Am 18Th Century

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If you're looking for a book that's not been influenced by 21st century popular culture and that's guaranteed to be a good read because it's stood the test of time, you can't go wrong with the classics.

~Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Topics: Because Been Book Century Classics Culture Go Good Guaranteed Influenced Looking Popular Popular Culture Read Stood Test Time Wrong You 21St Century

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My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him later. We had ancestors who came over at the turn of the century. One worked in a laundry, as is typical of Chinese-American immigrants.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: America Ancestors Because Came Century Father Had Him Immigrants Indiana Joined Late Later Laundry Mother Over Parents Studied Turn Typical Who Worked 1960S

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The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.

~Charles Bass

Topics: Acquired Acquisition Although Been Century Chinese Committee Found Had Many Military More Over Past Quarter Seven Targeted Technologies Than Them Years

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Before we start making blanket statements about abolishing the IRS, I think it's important to focus on what the tax code for the 21st century should look like.

~Charles Boustany

Topics: Abolish About Before Blanket Century Code Focus Important Irs Like Look Making Should Start Statements Tax Tax Code Think I Think 21St Century

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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

~Charles De Montesquieu

Topics: Century Day Liberties Lose May Miss Nation Them

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One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation's sewer systems, many of them built more than a century ago, to handle growing populations and increasing runoff of rainwater and waste.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Act Built Century Clean Clean Water Goal Growing Handle Increasing Many More Nation Sewer Systems Than Them Upgrade Waste Water

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