We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.
All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.
The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.
I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
I came to 20th Century Fox to do movies, and then they started a network, and they asked me to do a show as part of their starting what became the Fox network.
Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
A place that measures change in terms of centuries is the saddest place to live in as far us you are a live.
I think the biggest problem of the 21st century is how to deal with minorities.
We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.
I often think a lot of women's attraction to vampires is based on the fact that vampires come from centuries ago, from eras of chivalry and courtly virtues.
Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that is ... Western, and completely alien to us [the Chinese]. For centuries, since the time of the Opium Wars, we have s...
It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men ut...
The fact was that, as droves of demon kings had noticed, there was a limit to what you could do to a soul with, e.g., red-hot tweezers, because even fairly evil and corrupt souls were bright enough to realize that since they didn't have the concomita...
The topic was eloquence, something Christians had been conflicted about since the first-century church when Paul wrote that in bringing the gospel, he did not come with “eloquence.” A few centuries later, Saint Augustine wrestled with the value o...
