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Eras

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Huston Smith Philosopher
Eras

"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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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
Eras

"Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence."

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
Eras

"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."

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Isabel Allende Novelist
Eras

"We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent."

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Gordon Brown Politician
Eras

"We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as it should be - a Britain of nations and regions."

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Eras

"I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Eras

"Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that the slogans will be passionately proclaimed as they are drained of substantive content. We happen to be living in such an era, but as often before, there is no reason to suppose that the process is irreversible."

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Freda Adler Criminologist, Sociologist
Eras

"The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Eras

"When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived."

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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist
Eras

"He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life."

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Rachel Carson Biologist, Conservationist, Author
Eras

"This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits."

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Lana Del Rey Singer-Songwriter
Eras

"My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim."

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