Our Time Quotes - Page 19

• I believe 2016 is the Year of the Woman and now more than ever, it is our time to accomplish anything and everything.

  Ciara

  Believe, Years, Anything And Everything

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.

  Tim Jackson

  Challenges, Our Society, Limits

  Tim Jackson (2011). “Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet”, p.16, Routledge

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• Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.

  Edwin Feulner

  Government, Motor Vehicles, Two

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• We should just thank each other for our time. For the rest of our lives.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Should, Our Lives

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• Right now it is illegal for a service provider to censor or block a site because they don't like it or to privilege someone who pays them extra money. So it's basically a level playing field. I think it was a great victory. It doesn't solve all the problems of our time, but I think we've gotten a much better place.

  Tim Wu

  Block, Thinking, Victory

  Source: www.npr.org

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• One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

  Dale Jamieson

  Real, People, Indifference

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Paul Beatty for "The Sellout" sounds like a relevant story for our times. It's playful, uses deep thought and seems to be taking advantage of everything literature can do when tackling difficult issues.

  Sjon

  Issues, Deep Thought, Use

  Source: wwd.com

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• What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers.

  Sjon

  Simple, Answers, Literature

  Source: wwd.com

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• I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews 'fiery debates.' During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.

  Barbara Walters

  Years, Democracy, Together

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• I think communities of faith are extremely important in this question. I think that all faith communities share a common and unusual distinction in our time of being the only institutions left that can posit some goal other than accumulation for human existence. I think that's enormously important because it is that drive for consumption more than anything else that fuels the environmental devastation around us.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Goal, Community

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

  Ai Weiwei

  Men, Emotional, Together

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. And Alan, who is an old acquaintance of mine, is a marvelous performer in the impression he gives of enormously great perception.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Simple, Giving, Perception

  Source: progressive.org

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• If you watch Michael Jackson [1992] concerts from Budapest and compare it to a Madonna concert of today, you'll see such uplifting beauty and a message that you won't see in any other artist of our time.

  David LaChapelle

  Uplifting, Artist, Watches

  Source: wwd.com

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• We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.

  Marco Rubio

  Men, Challenges, Special

  "Rubio Showcases His Star Power" by Caitlin Huey-Burns, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 30, 2012.

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• About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

  Carl Jung

  Suffering, Neurosis, Emptiness

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".

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• The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Mistake, Science

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "The Poet and the City"

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• Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course; but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time.

  Thomas Paine

  Lying, Believe, Men

  "The Age of Reason".

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• If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singularly generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame, and re-inventing the poetry of diversity is perhaps the most important challenge of our times.

  Wade Davis

  Animal, Flames, Opposites

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• The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

  Vandana Shiva

  Luxury, Justice, Diversity

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• To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.

  William J. Clinton

  Patriotic, Reality, Revolution

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.135, Best Books on

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• Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.830, Best Books on

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• How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Loyalty, Art, Integrity

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.55, Knickerbocker Classics

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• Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

  Koichiro Matsuura

  Education, Challenges, Moral

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• One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Real, Sin, Shame

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 76, 1954.

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• To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual that makes every participant feel good. We may not rationalize this at the time, but it gives us a sense of place in our common community and our time in the tides of life on earth. This is a way to value beer and treat it with respect.

  Michael Jackson

  Beer, Garden, Glasses

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