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I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

~Frances O'Grady

Topics: Attitudes Century Dragged Life Need People Suspect Terms Towards Walks Who Women 21St Century

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We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow.

~Francis Maude

Topics: Categories Century Come Different Five Groups Half Just Market Members Mosaic Narrow Our Paper Party People Research Said Socio-Economic Those Too Use Very Which 21St Century

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The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

~Francis Parker Yockey

Topics: Age Ages Century Individualism Socialism 19Th Century

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I do honestly believe that, in the 21st century, sport is the most significant cultural element in this imperfect world. It calls for serious attention.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Attention Believe Calls Century Cultural Element Honestly Imperfect Most Serious Significant Sport World 21St Century

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The only thing we know for sure about superiority in sports in the United States of America in the 20th century is that Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics teams he led stand alone as the ultimate winners.

~Frank Deford

Topics: About Alone America Bill Boston Century He Know Led Only Russell Sports Stand States Superiority Sure Teams The Only Thing Thing Ultimate United United States United States Of America Winners 20Th Century

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One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

~Frank Rich

Topics: Absorb Alone American Bad Bad News Century Cultural Early Most News Persistent Prepare Reluctance 21St Century

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By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts - the Bible, the Koran, the Rig Veda - but physicist-priests will preside over the ceremonies.

~Frank Tipler

Topics: Bible Century Ceremonies Church Decades Form Koran Last Over Passages Reading Rig Still Take Texts Traditional Will Worship 21St Century

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I was born in Den Bosch, where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after. And so I've always been very fond of this painter who lived and worked in the 15th century.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: After Always Been Born Century Den Fond Himself Lived Named Painter Very Where Who Worked I Was Born

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City farming is not only possible, it is the very definition of the kind of meaningful, sustainable innovation we will need to meet the grand challenges of the 21st century: climate change; population growth; ageing population; urbanization; rising demand for energy, food and water; poverty; and access to healthcare.

~Frans Van Houten

Topics: Access Ageing Century Challenges Change City Climate Climate Change Definition Demand Energy Farming Food Grand Growth Healthcare Innovation Kind Meaningful Meet Need Only Population Population Growth Possible Poverty Rising Sustainable Very Water Will 21St Century

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Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.

~Frederick Pollock

Topics: Century Consider Essay Fact Gospel Merit Pamphlet Political Revolution See Side Will Working You

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