William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind."
Eras quotes
Eras
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Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies."
Lana Del Rey
Singer-Songwriter
"I am nostalgic of an era I never knew."
Mao Zedong
Politician, Revolutionary
"The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism."
Maggie Smith
Actress
"When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything."
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"Only by doing the best we can with the very best that an era offers, do we find the way to do better in the future."
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"An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted."
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"The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans."
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"I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it."
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"My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era."
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"I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan."
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"On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling."
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"Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard."
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"Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K."
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"To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production."
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"We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)"
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"In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples."
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"If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy."
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"I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time."
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"It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged."
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"In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt."
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"Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence."
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"... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age."
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"Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era."
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"Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution."
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