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As one Chinese saying goes,' cheongsam is practical enough for the kitchen but presentable for the living room,' the reason it's been able to last for a century is because cheongsam is really beautiful on its wearer. – Osmond Chan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The agency’s biggest needs are greater scientific expertise and additional resources, the 21st Century Cures Act provides more of both. – Diana DeGette	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Every year we lose hundreds of lives at highway-rail grade crossings -- each is a tragedy, and each is a heartbreaking reminder that our rail-grade crossings are based on technology and practices from the 19th century, we need to do everything we can to ensure we're using 21st century technology to protect drivers from these dangers. – Richard Blumenthal	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Five years ago, after nearly a century of talk, decades of trying, a year of bipartisan debate, we finally declared that in America, health care is not a privilege for a few but a right for all, the Affordable Care Act is here to stay. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I am grateful to Rupert Murdoch for taking the risk on Fox News to see it become the number one 24-hour news network in America, i look forward to working with Rupert, Lachlan and James to do my part to help bring 21st Century Fox well into the future. – Roger Ailes	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This expression is more commonly seen in the classical period, specifically in the eighth century between the years 700 CE to 800 CE, which is the last century of the Mayan culture and very close to its collapse, in the years following 800 CE, the Mayan cities started to collapse. That (event) has a strong relationship with the frequency of the number of wars which began in this century. – Guillermo Bernal	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Simply put, America has to write the rules of the 21st century economy in a way that benefits American workers. If we don't, countries like China will write those rules in a way that benefits their workers. – President Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
ObamaCare was the single worst piece of legislation that’s been passed in the last half century, the single biggest step in the direction of Europeanizing our country. Premiums are going up, copayments are going up, deductibles are going up. What we will do, Bret, is offer a proposal to protect the American people. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Access to the archives is getting worse and worse, it's just politically desired for now not to shed light on crimes of the Russian state in the 20th century. – Sebastian Stopper	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There was always going to be a group of our colleagues who wanted to come out of the European Union come what may, that is not where the government is... we're clear that the European Union isn't working, as it is at the moment, it's not fit for the 21st century, but we think it's fixable. – Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Your historic achievements will remain as one of the defining moments in the history of the last century. – British Chaplain Patrick Irwin	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
If we are going to look into the lives and the beliefs and doctrines of every artist around the world, I'm sure we won't be able to perform, at least here in Israel, a lot of music, i think in the 21st century, there should not be censorship, definitely not of artists, especially those who lived in Germany and tried to remain alive. Some did it because it is what they felt, some believed (in Nazi ideology), others didn't. – Michael Ajzenstadt	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think in the 21st century, there should not be censorship, definitely not of artists, especially those who lived in Germany and tried to remain alive. Some did it because it is what they felt, some believed (in Nazi ideology), others didn't. – Michael Ajzenstadt	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You see transformational activities in education that have taken place from time to time in the U.S. Like the end of the Second World War, for instance, they made high school mandatory, which opened up that option for a large number of students. It was transformative and led partially to America’s preeminence in the 20th century, i think the story of these six kids graduating now brings it home. Overwhelmingly it’s the children of color, who come from low-income backgrounds who a lot of people are not betting on. – Stanley Litow	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I don’t see how anyone who believes in the rule of law and the rights of women could do anything other than support efforts to end female-genital mutilation, forced marriage and honor-killings -- practices that have no place in the 21st century. – Eric Schmidt	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Collectors from different countries are appreciating masters from Picasso to Rothko, whether it's furniture or porcelain or artists who represent the best in 20th-century painting, they appreciate the best in class. – Jussi Pylkkanen	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If we just keep living longer, but we don't knock out this horrible disease, it will be the sinkhole of the century, it will take us down - every country. It will be a horror beyond horrors. And how much do we spend for research on this disease? Hardly anything. – Ken Dychtwald	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The 21st century is a time of cooperation, not a time of resistance, we must use a healthy attitude, a positive attitude to welcome the age of cooperation between our two sides. – Eric Chu	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
. Sotheby's will offer the egg at an auction on Thursday. It said it was estimated at 30,000 - 50,000 pounds( $ 76,410). In the 19th century they were greatly prized as sort of natural history curios by collectors, so a lot of them were collected then. But it's very rare to find them intact as this one is, they're often reassembled from broken parts. They're often found in remnants of fires from early settlers of Madagascar, which indicates they were probably used for food, which has contributed to the bird's extinction. – David Goldthorpe	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Only heavyweight fights are the 'Fights of the Century', but I'm going to be watching it. I'm trying to get some tickets. – Lennox Lewis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It has been a very long project, you don't create an 18th century warship very easily these days. ... It took enormous efforts to find enough oak trees naturally shaped so they could create the helm. – Miles Young	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Whoever had this burial was quite clearly extremely wealthy. They've been buried with the second-century equivalent of bling. – Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We sometimes say that we wish we had been massacred. This would be better than being kidnapped and raped. We prefer death now over the fate of what is happening to these girls and women, it is now on the government and on the international community to focus on this. How to get these captives back. It's inconceivable that in the 21st century, something like this is happening as if we were living in the Stone Age. – Vian Dakhil	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Anyone who seeks the presidency must recognize that in this century, there is no such thing as a remote problem. Our economy is increasingly global, and our people are increasingly bound to the affairs of the world, a threat a hemisphere away such as ISIS can become a threat down the street almost overnight. – The NFL commissioner	Found on CNN 9 years ago

As one Chinese saying goes,' cheongsam is practical enough for the kitchen but presentable for the living room,' the reason it's been able to last for a century is because cheongsam is really beautiful on its wearer.

– Osmond Chan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The agency’s biggest needs are greater scientific expertise and additional resources, the 21st Century Cures Act provides more of both.

– Diana DeGette

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Every year we lose hundreds of lives at highway-rail grade crossings -- each is a tragedy, and each is a heartbreaking reminder that our rail-grade crossings are based on technology and practices from the 19th century, we need to do everything we can to ensure we're using 21st century technology to protect drivers from these dangers.

– Richard Blumenthal

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Five years ago, after nearly a century of talk, decades of trying, a year of bipartisan debate, we finally declared that in America, health care is not a privilege for a few but a right for all, the Affordable Care Act is here to stay.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I am grateful to Rupert Murdoch for taking the risk on Fox News to see it become the number one 24-hour news network in America, i look forward to working with Rupert, Lachlan and James to do my part to help bring 21st Century Fox well into the future.

– Roger Ailes

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This expression is more commonly seen in the classical period, specifically in the eighth century between the years 700 CE to 800 CE, which is the last century of the Mayan culture and very close to its collapse, in the years following 800 CE, the Mayan cities started to collapse. That (event) has a strong relationship with the frequency of the number of wars which began in this century.

– Guillermo Bernal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Simply put, America has to write the rules of the 21st century economy in a way that benefits American workers. If we don't, countries like China will write those rules in a way that benefits their workers.

– President Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

ObamaCare was the single worst piece of legislation that’s been passed in the last half century, the single biggest step in the direction of Europeanizing our country. Premiums are going up, copayments are going up, deductibles are going up. What we will do, Bret, is offer a proposal to protect the American people.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Access to the archives is getting worse and worse, it's just politically desired for now not to shed light on crimes of the Russian state in the 20th century.

– Sebastian Stopper

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There was always going to be a group of our colleagues who wanted to come out of the European Union come what may, that is not where the government is... we're clear that the European Union isn't working, as it is at the moment, it's not fit for the 21st century, but we think it's fixable.

– Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Your historic achievements will remain as one of the defining moments in the history of the last century.

– British Chaplain Patrick Irwin

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If we are going to look into the lives and the beliefs and doctrines of every artist around the world, I'm sure we won't be able to perform, at least here in Israel, a lot of music, i think in the 21st century, there should not be censorship, definitely not of artists, especially those who lived in Germany and tried to remain alive. Some did it because it is what they felt, some believed (in Nazi ideology), others didn't.

– Michael Ajzenstadt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think in the 21st century, there should not be censorship, definitely not of artists, especially those who lived in Germany and tried to remain alive. Some did it because it is what they felt, some believed (in Nazi ideology), others didn't.

– Michael Ajzenstadt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You see transformational activities in education that have taken place from time to time in the U.S. Like the end of the Second World War, for instance, they made high school mandatory, which opened up that option for a large number of students. It was transformative and led partially to America’s preeminence in the 20th century, i think the story of these six kids graduating now brings it home. Overwhelmingly it’s the children of color, who come from low-income backgrounds who a lot of people are not betting on.

– Stanley Litow

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I don’t see how anyone who believes in the rule of law and the rights of women could do anything other than support efforts to end female-genital mutilation, forced marriage and honor-killings -- practices that have no place in the 21st century.

– Eric Schmidt

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Collectors from different countries are appreciating masters from Picasso to Rothko, whether it's furniture or porcelain or artists who represent the best in 20th-century painting, they appreciate the best in class.

– Jussi Pylkkanen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If we just keep living longer, but we don't knock out this horrible disease, it will be the sinkhole of the century, it will take us down - every country. It will be a horror beyond horrors. And how much do we spend for research on this disease? Hardly anything.

– Ken Dychtwald

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The 21st century is a time of cooperation, not a time of resistance, we must use a healthy attitude, a positive attitude to welcome the age of cooperation between our two sides.

– Eric Chu

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

. Sotheby's will offer the egg at an auction on Thursday. It said it was estimated at 30,000 - 50,000 pounds( $ 76,410). In the 19th century they were greatly prized as sort of natural history curios by collectors, so a lot of them were collected then. But it's very rare to find them intact as this one is, they're often reassembled from broken parts. They're often found in remnants of fires from early settlers of Madagascar, which indicates they were probably used for food, which has contributed to the bird's extinction.

– David Goldthorpe

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Only heavyweight fights are the 'Fights of the Century', but I'm going to be watching it. I'm trying to get some tickets.

– Lennox Lewis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It has been a very long project, you don't create an 18th century warship very easily these days. ... It took enormous efforts to find enough oak trees naturally shaped so they could create the helm.

– Miles Young

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Whoever had this burial was quite clearly extremely wealthy. They've been buried with the second-century equivalent of bling.

– Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We sometimes say that we wish we had been massacred. This would be better than being kidnapped and raped. We prefer death now over the fate of what is happening to these girls and women, it is now on the government and on the international community to focus on this. How to get these captives back. It's inconceivable that in the 21st century, something like this is happening as if we were living in the Stone Age.

– Vian Dakhil

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Anyone who seeks the presidency must recognize that in this century, there is no such thing as a remote problem. Our economy is increasingly global, and our people are increasingly bound to the affairs of the world, a threat a hemisphere away such as ISIS can become a threat down the street almost overnight.

– The NFL commissioner

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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