"Ever since my youth it has disturbed me……" — Lion Feuchtwanger

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• The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. — Spiro T. Agnew
• The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. — Jorge Luis Borges
• While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in… — Geraldine Brooks
• One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary… — Joseph Campbell
• Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of… — Michael N. Castle
• If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values… — Thomas Cochrane
• I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away… — Francesca Annis
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