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• I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

  Donald Cargill

  Holiness, Littles, Matter

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• Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Doubt, Novelists, Cinema

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• I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ignorance, Scientist, Enough

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• If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

  Jim DeMint

  Scared, Problem, Chiefs

  "DeMint Weighs In". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Issues, Environmental, Important

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• Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.

  Fred Durst

  Done, Want, Offensive

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• The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Economic, Economy, States

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1987). “Economics in Perspective: A Critical History”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

  Barry Goldwater

  Father, Equality, Differences

  Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination, delivered 16 July 1964, San Francisco

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• The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'

  Jennifer Grant

  Memories, Dad, Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Hands, Problem, Economy

  "A Conversation with Friedrich A. Von Hayek: Science and Socialism". Talk at American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., 1979.

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• We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Reality, Axes, People

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• Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Time, Attitude, Character

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

  Jeremy Irons

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

  Jesse Jackson

  College, Race, Class

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• Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

  Billy Joel

  Giving, Musician, Causes

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• Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

  Samuel Johnson

  Long, Boredom, Return

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• If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.

  Meir Kahane

  Political, Doe, Hiv

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• All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

  Robert Kennedy

  4th Of July, Opportunity, Political

  Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

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• The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Powerful, Allies, Way

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• Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

  Doris Lessing

  Time, Space, Fiction

  The Guardian (London), November 7, 1988.

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• Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

  Lydia Lunch

  Eye, Thinking, Lunch

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• As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Thinking, Challenges, Needs

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• The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Patterns, Conformity, Revulsion

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Reflection, Faithful, One Day

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• The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

  Robert Morgan

  Book, Three, Mature

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