Eras Quotes - Page 11

• The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Tasks, Realization, Transformation

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Manfred H. Vogel (1966). “Principles of the Philosophy of the Future”, Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill

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• Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering. According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty soldiers are now spending one of every two years abroad, leaving little of the Army left in any appropriate condition to respond to crises that may emerge elsewhere in the world.

  Russ Feingold

  Military, Mistake, Army

  "The President’s Policies Are Breaking the U.S. Army" by Russ Feingold, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2005.

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• We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as it should be - a Britain of nations and regions.

  Gordon Brown

  Powerful, Government, Entering

  Speech at the University of Manchester Science and Technology Institute, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2001.

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• The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Reality, Smell, Missing

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• The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.

  Herbert Hoover

  Today, Expansion, World

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• When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness. But this is, to speak in the Goethean sense, the archetypal phenomenon of social science. This sleeping-into we may call the social principle, the social impulse of the new era: we have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Sleep, Men, Empathy

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• One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country that are the envy of the world and today are the treasure of an entire nation. Why not a similar, global vision for our generation?

  Eban Goodstein

  Country, Our Generation, Years

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• In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.

  Joe Lieberman

  Military, Blessed, Leader

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• We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.

  Howard Dean

  Shoes, Campaigns, Modern

  "Internet Users Click and Vote for Democratic Contenders". edition.cnn.com. January 13, 2004.

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• The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  War, Ridiculous, Impossible

  Technical World Magazine, p. 145, October, 1912.

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• Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others, prudence, and so on, but there is nothing special about sex in this respect, for the same could be said of decisions about driving a car. (In fact, the moral issues raised by driving a car, both from an environmental and from a safety point of view, are much more serious than those raised by sex.)

  Peter Singer

  Sex, Honesty, Unique

  Peter Singer (1993). “Practical Ethics”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• This third day of October, 1942, is the first of a new era in transportation, that of space travel

  Walter Dornberger

  Space, Firsts, October

  Walter Dornberger (1954). “V2”

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• The era of Christianity peace, brotherhood, the Golden Rule as applied to governmental matters is. yet to come, and when it comes, then, and then only, will the future of nations be sure.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Brotherhood, Matter, Golden

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• Pele played in an era which had so many great players and in that atmosphere he stood out above the others. He was the complete player in every aspect as well as being a kind human being. Cristiano Ronaldo is young yet, and has many years ahead of himself. But as of now, I do not see anyone who can compare with Pele.

  Eusebio

  Cristiano Ronaldo, Player, Years

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• If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.

  Learned Hand

  Law, Liberty, Littles

  "United States v. Di Re". Judicial opinion, 1947.

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• I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era.

  Connie Willis

  Sleep, Idyllic, Wonderland

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.206, Bantam

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• I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Men, Champion

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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 as either inevitable or just constitute the continuing antinomy of the modern era, joined together in a dialectic which has far from reached its climax in the twentieth century.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Imagination, Together, World

  Immanuel Wallerstein (2011). “The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century, With a New Prologue”, p.357, Univ of California Press

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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

  Racism, Logical, Substitutes

  "Banned by Free Republic?". www.vdare.com. January 03, 2001.

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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

  Mean, Years, Thirty

  "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Vernor Vinge's remarks presented at the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, edoras.sdsu.edu. March 30-31, 1993.

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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 nearly half a millennium can now be opened to see what really has happened to our planet in the past -- and that past is not as distant as we might suppose.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Past, Mind, Jupiter

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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

  Party, Mean, Agreement

  "Wonk and Circumstance". Interview with Tom Sturm, valleyadvocate.com. May 6, 2010.

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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 born, the right to love, the right to grow old... When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for every family, and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception.

  Edward Kennedy

  Children, War, Believe

  "Pro-Choice Kennedy Was Pro-Life In 1971". www.wnd.com. August 3, 2005.

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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

  Cosmos, Spirit, Exploration

  "Is our universe the only universe?". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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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 diversity numbers—and a pledge to improve these—are the most recent victories. The Boys Club is under fire and is trying to reform itself. Women are achieving success and helping each other. Advancing technologies are leveling the playing field. Women are in the catbird seat for the new era of exponential innovation. This is the time to inspire and motivate—and that is what Innovating Women will surely do.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Boys, Technology, Fire

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