#century

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency. ↗

— Bjork

#again #age #another #century #collaborate

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#bookshelf #century #delivered #middle #paper

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#been #century #civilization #cooperation #development

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#music #own #right

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. ↗

— Tony Blair

#always #big #century #cold #cold war

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#eighteenth #eighteenth century #history #however #into

Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century. ↗

— John Doerr

#bigger #biggest #century #could #economic

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#beginning #century #common #end #era

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.' ↗

— Robert Duvall

#century #dove #fortunate #godfather #hits

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#biggest #biology #budgets #century #discoveries