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"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century." »Dan Quayle
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"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon." »John Berger
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"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
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"We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man." »Henry Wallace
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"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden;
if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree." »English proverb
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"What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing." »Andrew Schneider
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"[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." »Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
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"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'" »John F. Kennedy
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"plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give." »Anthony Norvell
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"I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying" »Jalal ud-Din Rumi
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"A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die." »Terpsichore Lindeman
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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century." »Jerry Coleman
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." »William Pitt
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom." »Johnson
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit." »Greek proverb
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." »Greek Proverb
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"The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century." »Bertrand Russell, Playboy Interview - March 1963
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"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"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
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"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." »Nelson Henderson
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"I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some." »Herbert Rappaport
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"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." »Martin Luther
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"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." »Alfred Edward Perlman
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"In the 20th century, specialisation has become the counterfeit of brilliance." »Richard Gordon
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"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century." »Dame Edna Everage, In a television interview with Joan Rivers
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"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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