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- One area of the Book of Mormon that does bother some is what they see as anachronistic doctrine; that the Book of… — Daniel C. Peterson
- Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments...free-market pundits bemoan the evident… — Jeffrey Sachs
- Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their… — John Dewey
- Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms — Jorge Luis Borges
- It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere… — Herbert Butterfield
- 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 anachronistic. The… — Lev Grossman
- The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell… — Arthur Koestler
- If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The… — Daniel Quinn
- I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism. — Margrethe II of Denmark
- In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work… — Noam Chomsky
- If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism… — Ben Lerner
- A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson