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Apollo 11 is the only event in the 20th century that stands a chance of being widely remembered in the 30th century. – Mike Pence	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Half a century later, returning to the moon is overdue, i would hope that it is a sustained effort, a long-term national commitment, one that also involves international partnerships and public-private collaborations. A multidimensional lunar program would be quite exciting. Apollo 11 landed on the moon five years after the first American robotic probe reached the surface. And this is an ambitious goal in the foreseeable future that rallies science, technology and the human spirit together. – Ray Jayawardhana	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are merely re-establishing fiscal justice. We want to create taxation for the 21st century that is fair and efficient, we want to impose on these new business models the same rules that apply to all other economic activities. – Le Maire	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Unfortunately, over the course of this century Congress has largely ignored the constitutional limits on its power. And the courts, especially after Franklin Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court with six additional members, have only abetted the resulting growth of government by fashioning constitutional doctrines that have no basis whatever in the Constitution. As a consequence, many of the programs Congress oversees today are without constitutional foundation, having resulted from acts that Congress had no authority. – Roger Pilon	added by Normando 4 years ago
Our study has shown for the first time that the Philistines immigrated to this region in the 12th century (BC), we didn't show it by showing similar styles of pottery, we didn't show it by looking at texts, we showed it by looking at the DNA of the people themselves. – Daniel Master	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Heat waves are on the rise, the hottest summers in Europe since the year 1500 AD all occurred since the last turn of the century : 2018, 2010, 2003, 2016, 2002. – Stefan Rahmstorf	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is a fascist, heinous assassination crime that no one can expect to happen in the 21st century. – Addis Ababa	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If they accept the census question, they are following the same pattern that the late-19th-century and 20th-century court made that was clearly intended to cement white rule. – Lawrence Goldstone	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If Supreme Court chooses to pretend that what was said was not said, and that blatant motive is not relevant, we are back to the late 19th century indeed, in criminal cases, motive and intent is everything. Why not here ? – Lawrence Goldstone	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's our role as a state to protect consumers... It's what at stake in the 21st century. – Le Maire	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We need to make sure that there's no risk for the user, it's our role as a state to protect consumers... It's what at stake in the 21st century. – Le Maire	Found on CNN 4 years ago
When we were trying to implement body cameras and we're dealing with all of the problems, it's a complicated thing to try to do, it sounds easy, but you have all of these questions about how to maintain the footage and legal policies, and it really helped that I could send my police chief to the Obama White House for the 21st-century task force on policing and get help. – Pete Buttigieg	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Today in the second decade of the 21st century we must take up the unfinished business of the New Deal and carry it to completion. – Bernie Sanders	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is something that obviously deeply angers women, i don't think we expected to be relitigating the 1960s and 1970s here in the 21st century. – Carolyn Bourdeaux	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think this notion that everything has to be made here is ignoring the economic facts of the 21st century global supply chain. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This would strike a significant blow to the Buick brand, as well as to dealers and consumers who have relied on Buick vehicles for over a century. – General Motors	Found on CNN 4 years ago
When our great-grandchildren look back on the 21st century they will see that government-sanctioned climate destruction was the constitutional issue of the century, we must be a nation that applies the rule of law to harmful government conduct that threatens the lives of our children so that they can grow up safe and free and pursue their happiness. – Julia Olson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
No one can survive on their own. Thinking you can is ridiculous, especially going into the middle half of the 21st century. To think you can do it alone is just ridiculous. – Chris Pine	added by regnumveritatis 4 years ago
For a long time, opponents of abortion have charged that abortion threatens those deemed undesirable in society, in arguing that Indiana's law that bans abortion based solely on race, disability or sex, could one day pass legal muster, Thomas is harkening back to the eugenics movement of the early 20th century. – Johanna Schoen	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Poundmaker was a diplomat, a peace maker, and was practicing reconciliation already in the 19th century, the truth is now known, and he will be remembered in history as a national hero. – Duane Antoine	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
By the end of this century, if emissions keep rising, the average temperature on Earth could go up another four to eight degrees, what I'm saying is the planet's on f * ing fire. There are a lot of things we could do to put it out -- are any of them free ? No, of course not. Nothing's free, you idiots. Grow the f k up. You're not children anymore. I didn't mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12. But you're adults now, and this is an actually crisis, got it ? Safety glasses off, motherf * ers. – Bill Nye**	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is a historic day. We're moving Minnesota's laws out of the 19th century. – Zack Stephenson	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Those who call themselves 'liberals' today are asking for policies which are precisely the opposite of those policies which the liberals of the nineteenth century advocated in their liberal programs. The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial -- that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions. – Ludwig Von Mises	added by Normando 5 years ago
Theres no place for these incidents in the 21st century, we need to work toward a more tolerant society. – Nicolas Lara	Found on FOX News 5 years ago

Apollo 11 is the only event in the 20th century that stands a chance of being widely remembered in the 30th century.

– Mike Pence

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Half a century later, returning to the moon is overdue, i would hope that it is a sustained effort, a long-term national commitment, one that also involves international partnerships and public-private collaborations. A multidimensional lunar program would be quite exciting. Apollo 11 landed on the moon five years after the first American robotic probe reached the surface. And this is an ambitious goal in the foreseeable future that rallies science, technology and the human spirit together.

– Ray Jayawardhana

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are merely re-establishing fiscal justice. We want to create taxation for the 21st century that is fair and efficient, we want to impose on these new business models the same rules that apply to all other economic activities.

– Le Maire

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Unfortunately, over the course of this century Congress has largely ignored the constitutional limits on its power. And the courts, especially after Franklin Roosevelt threatened to pack the Supreme Court with six additional members, have only abetted the resulting growth of government by fashioning constitutional doctrines that have no basis whatever in the Constitution. As a consequence, many of the programs Congress oversees today are without constitutional foundation, having resulted from acts that Congress had no authority.

– Roger Pilon

added by Normando
4 years ago

Our study has shown for the first time that the Philistines immigrated to this region in the 12th century (BC), we didn't show it by showing similar styles of pottery, we didn't show it by looking at texts, we showed it by looking at the DNA of the people themselves.

– Daniel Master

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Heat waves are on the rise, the hottest summers in Europe since the year 1500 AD all occurred since the last turn of the century : 2018, 2010, 2003, 2016, 2002.

– Stefan Rahmstorf

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is a fascist, heinous assassination crime that no one can expect to happen in the 21st century.

– Addis Ababa

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If they accept the census question, they are following the same pattern that the late-19th-century and 20th-century court made that was clearly intended to cement white rule.

– Lawrence Goldstone

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If Supreme Court chooses to pretend that what was said was not said, and that blatant motive is not relevant, we are back to the late 19th century indeed, in criminal cases, motive and intent is everything. Why not here ?

– Lawrence Goldstone

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's our role as a state to protect consumers... It's what at stake in the 21st century.

– Le Maire

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We need to make sure that there's no risk for the user, it's our role as a state to protect consumers... It's what at stake in the 21st century.

– Le Maire

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When we were trying to implement body cameras and we're dealing with all of the problems, it's a complicated thing to try to do, it sounds easy, but you have all of these questions about how to maintain the footage and legal policies, and it really helped that I could send my police chief to the Obama White House for the 21st-century task force on policing and get help.

– Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Today in the second decade of the 21st century we must take up the unfinished business of the New Deal and carry it to completion.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is something that obviously deeply angers women, i don't think we expected to be relitigating the 1960s and 1970s here in the 21st century.

– Carolyn Bourdeaux

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think this notion that everything has to be made here is ignoring the economic facts of the 21st century global supply chain.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This would strike a significant blow to the Buick brand, as well as to dealers and consumers who have relied on Buick vehicles for over a century.

– General Motors

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When our great-grandchildren look back on the 21st century they will see that government-sanctioned climate destruction was the constitutional issue of the century, we must be a nation that applies the rule of law to harmful government conduct that threatens the lives of our children so that they can grow up safe and free and pursue their happiness.

– Julia Olson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

No one can survive on their own. Thinking you can is ridiculous, especially going into the middle half of the 21st century. To think you can do it alone is just ridiculous.

– Chris Pine

added by regnumveritatis
4 years ago

For a long time, opponents of abortion have charged that abortion threatens those deemed undesirable in society, in arguing that Indiana's law that bans abortion based solely on race, disability or sex, could one day pass legal muster, Thomas is harkening back to the eugenics movement of the early 20th century.

– Johanna Schoen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Poundmaker was a diplomat, a peace maker, and was practicing reconciliation already in the 19th century, the truth is now known, and he will be remembered in history as a national hero.

– Duane Antoine

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

By the end of this century, if emissions keep rising, the average temperature on Earth could go up another four to eight degrees, what I'm saying is the planet's on f *** ing fire. There are a lot of things we could do to put it out -- are any of them free ? No, of course not. Nothing's free, you idiots. Grow the f ** k up. You're not children anymore. I didn't mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12. But you're adults now, and this is an actually crisis, got it ? Safety glasses off, motherf *** ers.

– Bill Nye

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is a historic day. We're moving Minnesota's laws out of the 19th century.

– Zack Stephenson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Those who call themselves 'liberals' today are asking for policies which are precisely the opposite of those policies which the liberals of the nineteenth century advocated in their liberal programs. The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial -- that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.

– Ludwig Von Mises

added by Normando
5 years ago

Theres no place for these incidents in the 21st century, we need to work toward a more tolerant society.

– Nicolas Lara

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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