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I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America. Shirley Chisholm

Change, Black, History, Woman, Me, Want

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water. James Buchan

Water, Today, Oil, Existence, Obscure

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant. Kim Jong-un

Building, Industrial Revolution, New

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. Benito Mussolini

History, Religion, Will, Fascism, Known

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. - Bill Gates

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. Bill Gates

Look, Will, Next, Ahead, Others, Empower

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. Warren Buffett

Rose, Depression, World, Financial, Oil

This is the 21st century, and we would all like to think racism is dead in America. Actually, that's not the case: still there are some racial issues that are out across this nation, and so we have a responsibility as compassionate citizens of America, no matter what our ethnic group happens to be, to confront these issues when they arise. Alveda King

Racism, Responsibility, Think, America

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen. Alexander McQueen

People, Dead, Know, Will, Gone, Started

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done. Susan B. Anthony

Work, Women, Live, See, Done, If I Could

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. - Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. Marshall McLuhan

Art, Advertising, Greatest, 20th Century

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. Dave Anderson

Sunset, Sail, Next, Sailing, Off, Hopes

Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies. Edmund White

Flower, Yellow, Great, Flowers, Plant

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. W. E. B. Du Bois

Sea, Men, Color, Problem, Africa, Line

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next. Andy Goldsworthy

Winter, Bridge, Year, Next, Another

Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their curiosities even when they run beyond the formal limits of their training. Peter Agre

Training, Limits, Medicine, Physics, Run

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for. Heather Watts

Education, Music, Dance, Words, Mind

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren. Twyla Tharp

Find, 20th Century, Barren, Hopelessly

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. Ben Shapiro

Depression, Great, Capitalism, Back

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land. Barack Obama

Health, Vote, Law, Care, Debate, Year

Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event. Alan Huffman

Death, Chaos, Alive, Event, Who, Plague

With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind. Jack Kemp

War, Democracy, Evil, Communism, Cold

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century. Li Peng

Conflict, Legacy, Kashmir, Half, More

Without elephants, Africa's landscape would be unrecognizable, yet these animals have fallen by the hundreds of thousands as a result of two enormous waves of poaching in this century - one in the 1970s and 1980s, the other, beginning around 2009, now underway. Lydia Millet

Beginning, Waves, Landscape, Africa, Now

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

History, Live, Nation, Holocaust, Mean

We've got to stand up at some point and say, 'We are not gonna pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress.' That war's been fought. That was over a century ago. That debt was paid for in blood, and it was paid for in the blood of a lot of Yankees, especially. And there's no reparations for the blood that paid for the sin of slavery. Steve King

War, Slavery, Stand, Stand Up, Sin, Debt

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds. David Gerrold

Technology, Men, People, Beginning, Moon

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