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The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will reestablish a wall between commercial and investment banking, make our financial system more stable and secure, and protect American families.

~Elizabeth Warren

Topics: Act American American Families Banking Between Century Commercial Families Financial Financial System Investment Make More Our Protect Secure Stable System Wall Will 21St Century

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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Affirmation Century Emancipation Greatest History Intense Most Movement Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Practically Right Seen Self Women

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The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Cease Century Conflict Equality Extend Far Indeed Legal Man Marriage Must New Only Out Period Psychological Received Shall Social Storm Stress Thereby Twentieth Twentieth Century Will Within Woman Women

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The ability to 'multitask,' to switch rapidly among many competing focuses of attention, has become the hallmark of a successful citizen of the 21st century.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Ability Among Attention Become Century Citizen Competing Hallmark Many Rapidly Successful Switch 21St Century

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It's interesting because with a lot of people who I've met in comedy, it seems not to matter what your background is. In terms of formal schooling - I feel like that's a nineteenth century term - but in terms of where you went to high school or college, or wherever, all that really is irrelevant, I have found, in comedy.

~Ellie Kemper

Topics: Background Because Century College Comedy Feel Formal Found High High School Interesting Irrelevant Like Lot Matter Met Nineteenth Nineteenth Century People Really School Schooling Seems Term Terms Where Wherever Who You Your I Feel I Feel Like

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From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: About Century Days Earliest Eastern Eastern Europe Enthusiastic Europe Holocaust Jews Led Movement Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Orthodox Time Until Which Zionist

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History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: About Against Arab Awakening Began Century Ended History Later May Record Revolt Someday

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Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Aristocrat Century Countries Democracy Earlier End Exile Helping Kings Like Move Now Russian Save Smoothly Will Years

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I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.

~Elon Musk

Topics: About Century Future Least Optimistic Reasonably States United United States

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Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, 'Are we there yet?' Eddie Murphy blew up striding across the stage in a red leather ensemble that would have made Elvis Presley chuckle, yet is probably best known to anyone born in the 21st century as the overly chatty donkey from 'Shrek.'

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Across Anyone Best Blew Born Century Cube Donkey Eddie Eddie Murphy Elvis Elvis Presley Ensemble Hearing Ice Known Leather Made Murphy Overly Red Stage Straight Up Would 21St Century

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