Our Own Time Quotes
42 quotes by 37 authors
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
— Margaret Atwood
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We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own…
— Michele Bachmann
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This Memorial Day should remind us of the greatness that past generations of Americans achieved from Valley Forge to Vietnam, and it should inspire us…
— Richard M. Nixon
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The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth…
— Mark Twain
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Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of…
— Hans Rookmaaker
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We're all our own prisons, we are each all our own wardens and we do our own time. I can't judge anyone else. What other…
— Charles Manson
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We're in a state of crisis where our nation is literally ripping apart at the seams right now, and lawlessness is occurring from one ocean…
— Michele Bachmann
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In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by…
— Giorgio Vasari
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As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on…
— John F. Kennedy
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He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've…
— Eddie Campbell
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What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure…
— Hans Hofmann
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Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as snowflakes in an…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to…
— Polybius
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Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come…
— Elijah Cummings
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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to…
— Virginia Woolf
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The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our…
— Ronald Reagan
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You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds of a great…
— Francois Arago
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The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain…
— Edward Forbes
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In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to…
— Murray Bookchin
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