Our Time Quotes - Page 21

• History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Real, People, Evil

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• We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.92, Lulu.com

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• I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Struggle, Journey

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life”, p.266, Hachette UK

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• People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

  Barack Obama

  People, World, Berlin

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

  Ben Okri

  Beautiful, Unique, Space

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• In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

  George Orwell

  Time, Writing, Political Language

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

  Mehmet Oz

  Mistake, Care, Fixing

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. May 20, 2012.

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• As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.

  Camille Paglia

  Spiritual, Thinking, Political

  "Camille Paglia defends David Horowitz". www.salon.com. August 26, 1999.

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• We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

  Paracelsus

  Dream, Real, Perishing

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• It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspiring, Mom, Dad

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• In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

  Ezra Pound

  Inability, Literature, Pounds

  Ezra Pound (1952). “Guide to Kulchur”, p.196, New Directions Publishing

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• Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

  Samantha Power

  Heart, Issues, Broken

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• Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

  Ronald Reagan

  Faith, Race, Done

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

  Sally Ride

  Awful, Busy, Wells

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• The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

  Jackie Robinson

  Class, Issues, Democracy

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• Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

  Richard Rogers

  Principles, Architecture, Form

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• A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

  Jean Rostand

  Time, Hard Work, Science

  1939 'Pense es d'un Biologiste', collected inThe Substance of Man (translated by Irma Brandeis,1962).

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• We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.

  Marco Rubio

  Men, Challenges, Special

  "Rubio Showcases His Star Power" by Caitlin Huey-Burns, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 30, 2012.

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• In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

  Salman Rushdie

  Iran, Islam, Trying

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• Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Talking, Europe, Dying

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• Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.

  Mort Sahl

  Insanity, Comedian, Insensitive

  Mort Sahl (1976). “Heartland”, New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Wisdom, School, Form

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• One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

  Thomas Sowell

  Caring, Political, Vision

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• We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

  John Steinbeck

  Change, Hate, Growth

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.265, Penguin

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• It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Eye, Ears

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