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• According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptableso that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it was as if they emerged from a dream, a flash-back, a lost epoch--an epoch when the enemy still had a body and was still "like us.

  Serge Daney

  Dream, Soldier, Enemy

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• It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the mathematics of his epoch, i.e. the period of time when he is 50.

  Jean Dieudonne

  Years, Mathematics, Periods

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• Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.

  Jose Marti

  Reflection, Men, Expression

  "Henry Ward Beecher". Essay by Jose Marti, 1887.

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• It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Views, Judging, Giving

  Entry for July 20, 1848, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Faithful, France, Frenchmen

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• The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to others as ours are to us.

  Max Weber

  Struggle, Moving, Fate

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.84, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the lie, the greater chance that it will be believed. All epoch-making events have been produced not by the written, but the spoken word.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Fall, Events

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, www.thesunmagazine.org. 1925.

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• My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now—our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.

  Jean Nouvel

  Historical, Today, Technique

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• And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Light, World, Resistance

  Pier Paolo Pasolini, Norman MacAfee, Luciano Martinengo (1982). “Poems”, New York : Random House

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• In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

  Carl Sagan

  Time, Space, Joy

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.162, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

  Thomas Mann

  Men, Consciousness, Individual

  Thomas Mann (1953). “The magic mountain: Der Zauberberg”, Vintage

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• The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Ideas, Intellectual

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.64, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

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• Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

  Gertrude Stein

  Thinking, Hiking, Important

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind”, p.166, Random House

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• No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Dream, Essence

  Heart of Darkness ch. 1 (1902)

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• Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping toward destruction. Therefore, everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Struggle, Responsibility, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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• It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Struggle, Essence

  "Heart of Darkness". Book by Joseph Conrad, 1902.

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• It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

  Monique Wittig

  War, Machines, Literature

  Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Expression, Class

  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.16, Haymarket Books

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• Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  World, Want, Contemplation

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• After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me.

  Darynda Jones

  Coffee, Host, Shows

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.5, Macmillan

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• There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Science, Three, Newton

  "Mathematics, Queen and Servant of Science". Book by Eric Temple Bell, 1951.

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• Abruptly, she knew that after this night she was never going to be the same again. Nothing was ever going to be the same. Oh, yes, the man could define himself as the dawning of an epoch if he wanted to. There was, quite simply, before Adam and after Adam.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Night, Men, Adam

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• All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Culture, Decay

  Immanuel Kant (1985). “The Philosophy of Material Nature”, p.106, Hackett Publishing

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• No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

  Carl Jung

  Freedom, Understanding, Limits

  "Paracelsus the Physician". Paper by Carl Jung, 1942.

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• If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.

  Julian Baggini

  Art, Lessons, Als

  "Everyday wisdom" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2008.

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