Eras Quotes
708 Eras quotes by 600 unique authors
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The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
— Leonard Peikoff
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People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where…
— Dave Winfield
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Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.
— Steve Sailer
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
— Vernor Vinge
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With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have been closed for…
— Vine Deloria, Jr.
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If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.
— Rick James
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I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform.
— Rachel Maddow
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Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized – the right to be…
— Edward Kennedy
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Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial…
— Mary Lou Retton
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We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.
— Brian Greene
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Innovating Women is more important today than ever. Things are changing for the better. The recent announcements by Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Facebook of their…
— Vivek Wadhwa
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I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
— Bob Iger
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Only by doing the best we can with the very best that an era offers, do we find the way to do better in the…
— Frank Drake
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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a…
— Jane Goodall
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I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those…
— Charles Mingus
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Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a…
— Horace Silver
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The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.
— Bill Toomey
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I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much so, that a…
— George Cayley
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To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance of…
— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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