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Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century · Isaac Newton, Paraphrase of 12th century quote by Bernard of Chartres · John Hay, Distichs, latter 19th century · Julius Frontinus, 1st century A.D.

"The pursuit of happiness" is an American myth. The ideologies and governments of this century that promised happiness, have left people with more material possessions, but less psychological well-being. Many of the citizens are emotionally bankrupt and unhappy. The demands of life in our current socioeconomic system require that we keep running and running with little or no breaks....Like their parents, most of the young professionals will drift through life racing for the "American Dream", going through very expensive trial-and-error lessons and struggling to achieve happiness and fulfillment. – Med Jones
After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? – Dejan Stojanovic
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. – Pope John Paul II
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century. – William Lyon Phelps
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain
(Kenneth) Star...(has) done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available. – Larry Flint, on the evidence against Pres Bill Clinton
America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side. – Vincent Canby, The New York Times, November 11, 1984
Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago – Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. – Isaac Asimov
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century. – Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun-Times, November 5, 2001
Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. – John Kenneth Galbraith
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. – Thomas Carlyle
From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful. – R. D. Laing
I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind. – His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994
I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we have no answers. – Madeleine K. Albright, Farewell Remarks at U.S. Department of State; January 19, 2001; Washington, DC
I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century. – Patch Adams
If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century! – Mehmet Murat ildan
If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries! – Mehmet Murat ildan
In the 20th century, specialisation has become the counterfeit of brilliance. – Richard Gordon
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. – Longfellow
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. – Alfred Edward Perlman
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world! – John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961

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