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The Contemporary
«In America, the land of the permanent revolution, ulcers and cancer often become, for the men at the top, the contemporary equivalent of the guillotine.»
Author: Ted Morgan
| About:
America and Americans,
Revolution
| Keywords:
Cancer, contemporary, guillotine, The Contemporary, ulcer, ulcers
«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
«A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.»
«Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
campus, campuses, contemporary, harass, harassed, harasses, manuscripts, midwestern, mousetrap, remote, The Contemporary, undergo, unpublished
«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
«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
«A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: `Of course I do not like green cheese: I am very fond of brown sherry.'»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
brown, browns, cheese, cheeses, contemporary, fond, green, reads, sherry, The Contemporary
«At the moment of the contemporary metaphysician's loftiest flight, when he is most gratefully warmed by the feeling that he is far above all the ordinary airlanes and has an absolutely novel concept by the tail, he is suddenly pulled up by the discov»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
contemporary, gratefully, pulled, The Contemporary, warmed
«One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Humanity
| Keywords:
contemporary, dedicate, dedicates, dedicating, flowering, fostered, fostering, fosters, humanity, one way, The Contemporary, to that
