Our Time Quotes - Page 17

• Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Land, Organization

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• You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company - which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Years, Land

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'

  Mel Brooks

  Artist, Swings, Together

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.

  Kingsley Amis

  Reputation, Now And Then, Conscious

  Kingsley Amis (1991). “Memoirs”, Vintage

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• If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it?

  Hillary Clinton

  Beautiful, Fighting, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

  David Cameron

  Hero, Legends, Figures

  "Nelson Mandela: world leaders mourn inspirational figure" by Conal Urquhart, Dan Roberts, Paul Lewis, Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2013.

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• Survival in any meaningful sense is the key issue of our time

  Thomas Berry

  Meaningful, Keys, Issues

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• By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living.

  Daniel Pennac

  Making Time

  "1. The right not to read", www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2006.

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• We were born ahead of our time. Don't forget that the riot-grrl scene had a lot to do with making The Slits a legend, and that didn't happen until the early '90s. We couldn't get together before then, because the legend hadn't been built yet. In the 2000s, we've become bigger than life in that way. It's become really important for The Slits to be here now, but idealistically, we should have done it in the '90s.

  Ari Up

  Should Have, Important, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Country, Poverty

  Pope Francis (2013). “I Ask You to Pray for Me: Opening a Horizon of Hope”, p.44, Paulist Press

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• The events and prophecies of our time are preparing us for the Savior's Second Coming.

  Robert D. Hales

  Events, Prophecy, Savior

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• In the upshot there is only one answer for the preacher who wonders whether he is worthy to preach the sermon he has composed or for the writer who wonders whether he is worthy to write the religious book he is working on. The answer is: Of course not. To ask yourself: Am I worthy to perform this Christian task? is really the peak of pride and presumption. For the very question carries the implication that we spend most of our time doing things we are worthy to do. We simply do not have that kind of worth.

  Harry Blamires

  Christian, Religious, Book

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• Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has rendered them incapable of clear decisions.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Decision, Doubt, Suffering

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• The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Drinking, Opportunity, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.376, 谷月社

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• Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Powerful, Feminism, Movement

  Richard Allen Epstein (1992). “Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws”

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• Much of the violence that humanity suffers in our times is rooted inmisunderstanding as well as in the rejection of the values and identityof foreign cultures. Tourism improves relationships between individualsand peoples; when they are cordial, respectful, and based on solidarity theyconstitute, as it were, an open door to peace and harmonious coexistence

  Pope John Paul II

  Doors, Rejection, Humanity

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• Why do we have to spend our lives striving to be something that we would never want to be, if we only knew what we wanted? Why do we waste our time doing things which... are just the opposite of what we were made for?

  Thomas Merton

  Opposites, Want, Waste

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.132, Shambhala Publications

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• The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Use, Exploration, Method

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

  George Orwell

  Average, Class, Soul

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

  Charles A. Murray

  Drug, Important, Poverty

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• The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Home, Unique

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• The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies of our time.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Increase, Notion, Fallacy

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• It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.

  Henri Nouwen

  True Identity, Insecurity, Want

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• We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.

  David Tennant

  Space, Dialogue, Seems

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• I think play and joy and feeling good deserve more of our time. I don't see why adults are supposed to grow out of those things. If I have a mission it's to make everyone who comes to my concerts leave feeling a heightened sense of freedom to play, sing, and enjoy themselves.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Thinking, Deserve More, Play

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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