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Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

~Dick Thornburgh

Topics: Arrest Been Borders Century Convergence Customs Economic Even Integration Island Nation National Political Political System Puerto Rest Rico State System Territory Though Within

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Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land, confiscatory taxation, and so on. My anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of India in the 21st century.

~Dinesh D'Souza

Topics: Africa Century Father Frozen His India Land Machine Obama Remains State Taxation Time 1950S 21St Century

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Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democratic Party well into the twentieth century is a virtually uninterrupted history of thievery, corruption, and bigotry.

~Dinesh D'Souza

Topics: Century Contrary Corruption Democratic Democratic Party Education History Learn Media Party Progressives The History Of Twentieth Twentieth Century Virtually Well

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A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Acquainted Best Century Cooking Depths English Fellowship Good London Me Oxford Paris Restaurants 1950S

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As I look at the barn in my ninth decade, I see the no-smoking sign, rusted and tilting on the unpainted gray clapboard. My grandfather, born in 1875, milked his cattle there a century ago.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Barn Born Cattle Century Decade Grandfather Gray His Look Ninth See Sign I See

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My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.

~Donald Tusk

Topics: Central Century Complex Europe Families Family Family History German History Jewish Like Many Polish 20Th Century

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Hurricane Katrina was the storm of the 21st century. It devastated an area the size of Great Britain. More than 1,800 Americans died. Three hundred thousand homes were destroyed. There was $96 billion in property damage. I served on the Louisiana Recovery Authority. I saw Congress write one big check and then skip town.

~Donna Brazile

Topics: American Area Authority Big Billion Britain Century Check Congress Damage Destroyed Devastated Died Great Great Britain Homes Hundred Hurricane Hurricane Katrina Katrina Louisiana More Property Recovery Saw Served Size Skip Storm Than Then Thousand Three Town Were Write 21St Century

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We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

~Donna Shalala

Topics: Century Come Courses Did Down Drive Education Helped Higher Higher Education Increased Need Quality Requirements Saying School School System Schools Secondary Skills System Taken Transform Unless Wisconsin You 19Th Century

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We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.

~Doug Aitken

Topics: Art Art Forms Century Engaging Forms Isolated Many Once Presented Them Way 21St Century

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The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.

~Doug Aitken

Topics: Across Architecture Art Artistic Century Cultural Defined Diverse Film Film Music However Individuals Instead Literature Made Movements Music Now Occupy Period Platforms Really Same Simultaneously Up Various Way Working 20Th Century 21St Century

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