"Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the……" — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
"Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys."
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Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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16 Quotes by Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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One area of the Book of Mormon that does bother some is what they see as anachronistic doctrine; that the…
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One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly…
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The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach.…
— Dalai Lama
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We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.
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I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I…
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There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages…
— Erich Fromm
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...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to…
— Milan Kundera
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African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.
— Julius Nyerere
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Yes, agriculture subsidies are far too generous. They need to be reined in because they cater to special interests while…
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