Golden Age Quotes - Page 6

• Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .

  Robert Heilbroner

  Hero, Reality, Age

  "The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers". Book by Robert L. Heilbroner, Chapter VIII, Thorstein Veblen, p. 224, 1953.

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• In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Past, Thinking, History

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.2, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian... There is no lost Golden Age to which American Christians may return.

  Mark Noll

  Christian, America, Atheism

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• Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Women, Age, Golden

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• My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

  Joanna Trollope

  Character, Views, Voice

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• We got a wonderful present from Stalin and Hitler that they never meant to give us. We were immune for 60 years or so to aggression, racism and militarism. They made us partly immune to these things. Now it appears this Stalin-Hitler present has reached its expiration date. We were spoiled by this. So maybe we are just emerging out of a relatively golden age.

  Amos Oz

  Years, Racism, Giving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I wanted to do my part to help preserve that golden age of travel... I step aboard The Patron Tequila Express railcar, and I go back in time to the days when a long journey was something fun and very special.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Fun, Journey, Golden Days

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• As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Past, Views, Age

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• I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.

  Howard Stringer

  Golden Days, Age, News

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• It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.O blow ye evil windsinto my body's firemy soul you'll never unravel.Even though disappointed a thousand timesor fallen in the fightand everything would worthless seem,I have lived amidst eternity -Be grateful, my soul -My life was worth living.He who was pressed from all sidesbut remained victorious in spiritis welcomed into the choir of heroes.He who overcame the fettersgiving wings to his mindis entering into the golden age ofthe victorious.

  Norbert Capek

  Life, Hero, Grateful

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• The 1990's will be a determining period of time for another cycle. If humanity during this time chooses to throw away a lot of the mirages and illusions it's fooled itself with, we will enter a very bright and golden age. It won't happen in one day.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Age

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• If you live in a world where the population is separating itself from science and entering an age of superstition, as a marketer, selling to people who will believe anything, it is a golden age.

  Daniel Henninger

  Believe, People, Age

  Source: www.wsj.com

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• The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Past, Race, Vision

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• After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Iron, Age, Golden

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1795 - 1822.

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• During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Beautiful, Stars, Careers

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• In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Player, Two

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• In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.

  George Eliot

  Life, Spring, Wine

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.693, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text.

  Arthur Koestler

  Past, Atheism, Age

  Andre Gide, Richard Wright, Ignasio Silone, Stephen Spender, Arthur Koestler, Louis Fischer (1965). “the god that failed”

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• Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.

  Ouida

  Beautiful, Flower, Butterfly

  Ouida (2016). “Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes”, p.48, Ouida

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• The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Flower, Future, Past

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• People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.

  Cate Blanchett

  People, Age, Golden

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• With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.

  Lucy Walker

  Real, Mean, Technology

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• The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China was Chinas golden age, and contrary to what I was told when I was growing up, Tang China was founded by a man who by todays standards was no more than half Chinese. It was a mixed-blood dynasty that pulled in "barbarians" from the steppe.

  Amy Chua

  Growing Up, Successful, Men

  "The accidental hyperpower: an interview with Amy Chua". Interview with Fritz Lanham, www.chron.com. December 2, 2007.

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• Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Fashion, House, Age

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• Boughs have their fruit and blossom
  At all times of the year;
  Rivers are running over
  With red beer and brown beer.

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Beer, Years

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

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