Contemporary World Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter…
— Henry Knox Sherrill
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When you're surfing you're not thinking about where you parked the car or what you're going to do when you grow up or what you're…
— Tim Winton
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Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.
— Elizabeth Bishop
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I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like…
— Alan Moore
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Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home…
— Thomas Merton
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Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner…
— John Stott
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both…
— A J P Taylor
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It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.
— Linda Hogan
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In roughly the last century, important experiments have been launched by such charismatic educators as Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Shinichi Suzuki, John Dewey, and A.…
— Howard Gardner
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Ultimately our claim to know the one God only gains credence in the contemporary world as he demonstrates the divine presence through the way we…
— Stanley J. Grenz
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Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to…
— George Crumb
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A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity,…
— Claudio Hummes
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Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness…
— Leonard Baskin
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We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here…
— Edward F Edinger
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There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen master there, or…
— Frederick Lenz
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The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social…
— Frederick Lenz
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times.…
— Umberto Eco
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The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it…
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody.…
— Lech Walesa
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The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation...
— Henri Nouwen
Who Wrote These Contemporary World Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Contemporary World Quotes as follows: