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• Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.

  e. e. cummings

  Father, Mean, Eye

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• In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was sitting on the edge of a low range of inland cliffs, crested with drifting sand.

  Charles Kingsley

  Christian, Book, Years

  Charles Kingsley (1856). “Hypatia ... The second edition”, p.1

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• I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with - fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam's greatest war in the present era.

  Bill Vaughan

  War, Blessed, Islamic

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• The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.

  Ellen Goodman

  Time, Believe, Loss

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

  Margaret Atwood

  Tired, Thinking, Goal

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

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• The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.

  Molly Ivins

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Rights

  "'Evil Cowards' Threaten Freedom" by Molly Ivins, www.sfgate.com. April 25, 1995.

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• The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.

  Susan Ertz

  Luck, Novelists, World

  Susan Ertz (1943). “Anger in the Sky: A Novel”

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• The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Obscure, Glorious

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• In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Book, Rome

  Edward Gibbon (1871). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.1

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• By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages or a lack of jobs but by bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles. The poor were dissolute, promiscuous, prone to addiction and crime, unable to 'defer gratification' or possibly even set an alarm clock. The last thing they could be trusted with was money.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Attitude, Addiction

  "Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, American Poverty, 50 Years Later". www.tomdispatch.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Distance, Class

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

  Hannah Arendt

  Business, Taken, Politics

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The concept of unlimited expansion that alone can fulfill the hope for unlimited accumulation of capital, and brings about the aimless accumulation of power, makes the foundation of new political bodies - which up to the era of imperialism always had been the upshot of conquest - well-nigh impossible.

  Hannah Arendt

  Political, Foundation, Expansion

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth.

  Russell Baker

  Food, Animal, People

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• I see some parallels between then [Lincoln's era] and now. Certainly the division of ideologies between two parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In 1865, the Democrats were the Conservatives and the Republicans were the progressives, and today it's just the opposite.

  Steven Spielberg

  Party, Opposites, Two

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• In an era that's run on free agency, everybody's going where the dollars are. They go after the dollars and they forget that the game will always come down to brotherhood.

  Ray Lewis

  Running, Agency, Games

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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• I feel fortunate to have made records during an era where people actually bought music. But I have friends in struggling up-and-coming bands now that will certainly never be able to pay the rent, because music has been devalued.

  Tom Morello

  Struggle, People, Records

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

  Louise Bogan

  Art, Attitude, Emotional

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• In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Consciousness, Certain, Subjects

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.217, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Youth, Consideration, Dues

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• ... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness the first female engineer, motor truck chauffeur, radio broadcaster, head of an aviation school, or federal prohibition officer, but it has not produced the first thinking, creative, and writing woman by any means.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Running, Art, Writing

  Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.133, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy."

  John Lydon

  Black And White, Army, Color

  John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman (2014). “Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs”, p.113, Picador

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• [On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way.

  Pat Nixon

  Husband, Way, March

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• There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

  George Eliot

  Youth, Something Better, New Era

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1994, Delphi Classics

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• The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.

  Fernand Leger

  Fire, Water, Joy

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