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contemporaries
«What we generally fail to realize is that in talking today to the Indians we are face to face with the direct descendants, as often as not, of people who were contemporaries of Ancient Egypt, and whose present culture, in most of its main essentials,»
Author: Austin Coates
| Keywords:
ancient Egypt, contemporaries, descendants, essentials, face to face, Indians
«The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
| About:
Society,
Writers
| Keywords:
contemporaries, Faust, individualist, individualists, madman, Modern Age, semi, surviving, The Modern Age
«The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
| Keywords:
adopted, apt, contemporaries, dependent, dependent on, fare, fared, fares, faring, Frost, frosted, frosting, frosts, if not, inherent, injured, irrespective, lured, lures, luring, merit, practical, retard, retarded, retarding, sprout, sprouting, succeeding, The Contemporary, timely
«Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bother, contemporaries, higher, predecessors, shoot, The Contemporary
«Why was I born with such contemporaries?»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Despair,
Self Importance
| Keywords:
Born, contemporaries, such, The Contemporary, Was, why
«Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Trying
| Keywords:
bother, contemporaries, predecessors, The Contemporary
«POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appellant, appellate, appellate court, author, competitor, contemporaries, court, obscure, popular, posterity, reversed, reverses, Reversing, The Contemporary
«Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
ancestors, contemporaries, descendant, descendants, isolates, shut up, The Descendants, thrown
«Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| About:
Adulthood,
Children,
Cute,
Graduation
| Keywords:
adults, ceremony, come home, contemporaries, graduation, graduations, raising, The Contemporary, tough, twenty-two, two-year, unemployed
«On this earth, one pays dearly for every kind of mastery . . . . For having a specialty one pays by also being the victim of this specialty. But you would have it otherwise -- cheaper and fairer and above all more comfortable -- isn't that right, my dear contemporaries?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
above all, cheaper, comfortable, contemporaries, dear, dearly, fairer, For every, mastery, otherwise, pays, specialties, specialty, The Contemporary, The Victim, victim
