Eras Quotes
708 Eras quotes by 600 unique authors
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What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
— Albert Einstein
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I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing…
— John Updike
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Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim…
— Emma Goldman
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Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
— Albert Camus
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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . .…
— Abraham Lincoln
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She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates…
— Paulo Coelho
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Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is…
— John Twelve Hawks
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Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands…
— Tana French
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In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.
— J. G. Ballard
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Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware…
— Lionel Shriver
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The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed…
— Che Guevara
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One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it…
— J M Coetzee
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New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them.
— Nobuhiro Watsuki
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Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ…
— Howard Gardner
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The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely…
— Michael Crichton
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I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles…
— Harold Bloom
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Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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