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I think I might have a glass of champagne, if there is any in Nagpur, and just enjoy the moment. [on getting a century in his first match for England]
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The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.
View quotes by Chuck Hagel

It was a bit frustrating to end on 99 not out obviously, but Thorpey just took the run! [on never making a century for England but a game ending with him 99not out]
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I have concluded the history of this century and put the finishing touches to it and not another word will I write. [Last words]
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After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.
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The tail-enders did a fantastic job to help me along and once I got to the nineties I wanted to make sure of it [on finally getting a century for england]
View quotes by Paul Collingwood

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
View quotes by Daniel Boorstin

"I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so."
View quotes by Neal Ascherson

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
View quotes by Douglas Macarthur

I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.
View quotes by Nigel Melville

He had, over half a century, perfected and personified that hardly definable English sound, the burble [Brian Johnston]
View quotes by Godfrey Smith

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
View quotes by J G Ballard

Thus does the Beeb ease the English into another gray familiar day, another half-century of magic mystic rays.
View quotes by Francis X Clines

Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.
View quotes by Thomas Szasz

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
View quotes by Avery Brundage

The presence of a long term and conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.
View quotes by Mary Craig

Motion pictures are the art form of the twentieth century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform.
View quotes by Roger Corman

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
View quotes by Angela Carter

It was tough but I was able to produce a pretty good performance and I'm ecstatic about the result. [On beating Phelps in the race of the century, as it was billed, at the 2004 Olympics]
View quotes by Ian Thorpe

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
View quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

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