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Eliot Spitzer Politician
Eras

"Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding."

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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
Eras

"As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University."

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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
Eras

"The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit."

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Portia de Rossi Actress
Eras

"Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before."

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Adrian Marcel Singer
Eras

"I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs. No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era."

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Eras

"...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" have been thrown into big time flux."

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Al Pacino Actor, Filmmaker
Eras

"Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
Eras

"It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into a single structure. Only so could the era in theoretical physics inaugurated by Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell be brought to a satisfactory close."

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Amos Bronson Alcott Philosopher, Educator
Eras

"A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers."

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