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The Millennium
«Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.»
Author: Booth Tarkington
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
boyhood, last decade, millennia, millennium, school term, school year, The Millennium, The school
«[Princess Leia gets her first look at the Millennium Falcon] You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought.»
Author: Carrie Fisher
(Actress, Writer)
| Keywords:
braver, falcon, Leia, millennia, millennium, Princess Leia, The Millennium
«The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
absolve, absolved, acquiring, barbarism, deteriorates, End Of The Century, Future of, infinitely small, millennia, millennium, physical world, prosperous, Return Of, The Millennium, uncertain
«Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.»
«If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?»
Author: Kofi Annan
| Keywords:
chart, charted, charting, decades, millennia, millennium, The Millennium, The United Nations, United Nations
«Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
convincing, debt, halve, halved, halving, millennia, millennium, objective, pipe, pipe dream, program, relief, The Millennium
«MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down, with all reformers on the under side.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
lid, lids, screwed, The Millennium, The Under
«I hope they will say that I did a good job of leading America into a new century, a new millennium, and a whole new way working and living and relating to the rest of the world, that I lifted the American people up. And brought them together.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
American people, lifted, millennia, millennium, relating, Rest of the world, The Millennium
«I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Science,
Superstition
| Keywords:
attractive, by year, edges, millennia, millennium, nearer, pseudo, siren, Sirens, sonorous, superstition, tempting, The Millennium, unreason
«It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations /past and present /are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
anxieties, hungers, incomprehensible, millennia, outsider, outsiders, remained, The Millennium, timeless