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• We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

  Douglas Coupland

  Historical, Tools, Helping

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• I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

  David R. Brower

  Beautiful, People, Needs

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• The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.

  Tucker Carlson

  Thinking, Republican, Satan

  "Tucker Carlson: End of Clinton era is nigh". Interview, www.cnn.com. December 13, 2000.

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• We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.

  Matt Drudge

  Voice, Citizens, Reporters

  Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998

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• My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

  Ken Follett

  War, Writing, World

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• Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

  Sam Elliott

  Hollywood, Vets, Vietnam

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• As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Struggle, Men, Soldier

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• An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Exhausted, Illusion

  "The Year it Came Apart". New York magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1, p. 30, December 30, 1974 - January 6, 1975.

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• You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era - it should never leave you.

  Leontyne Price

  Inspirational Life, Shifting, Gears

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Money, Hands

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• Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

  Al Sharpton

  Kings, Principles, Drs

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• I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Believe, Player

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• I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Beautiful, Work, Dancing

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• It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

  Warren Farrell

  Growing Up, America, Hearing

  "An Interview with Warren Farrell" by J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Soul, Style

  "Taking Sock" by Jaron Lanier, www.wired.com. January 1, 1998.

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• Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

  Arianna Huffington

  Women, Believe, Creativity

  "The Female Woman". Book by Arianna Huffington, 1973.

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• The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

  Dylan McDermott

  Jeans, Age, Pairs

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• I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

  James Levine

  Treasure, Orchestra, Grew Up

  "Staying power". www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2000.

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• I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

  Pat Morita

  Four, Letters, Four Letter Words

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

  Marvin Olasky

  Baseball, Spring, Needs

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• I think it's great now that we seem to be in an era where it's OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society.

  Jason Priestley

  Gay, Thinking, America

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• It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic.

  John Leeson

  Golden, Comedy, Fantastic

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• They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Player, Years

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• When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

  Anselm Kiefer

  House, Germany, Nazi

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• I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Giving, Biographies, Wonderful

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