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In Our Time
«Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism»
Author: Barry Goldwater
(Politician, Senator)
| About:
Equality,
Liberty
| Keywords:
conformity, despotism, differences, emancipation, equality, fathers, Father Time, First to, founding, Founding Fathers, In Our Time, rightly, tragically, wrongly
«Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.I cannot conceivably influence the world's destiny, but I can make my own life more worthwhile. I can give some help to some people; that is not vital to all the world's problems and yet I think if everyone did just that, we might see quite a world in our time!»
Author: Gladys Taber
| Keywords:
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«We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children»
Author: Howard Zinn
(Author, Historian, Political activist, Professor)
| About:
Decision,
Politicians,
War
| Keywords:
conjure, conjured, conjures, conjure up, conjuring, go to war, indiscriminate, innocents, In Our Time, media
«We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.»
Author: William J. Brennan, Jr.
| About:
History,
Time,
Words
| Keywords:
framing, History of the, interpretation, intervene, intervening, In Our Time, look to, text, The History, The History of
«No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
act on, idealism, idealistic, In Our Time, motives, paying, penalty, shove, shoved, shoves, shove it, shoving
«In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
earlier, illiteracy, inability, In Our Time, monetary, print
«People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
Thinking,
World
| Keywords:
fulfilling, In Our Time, sanity
«Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
come after, finished, free time, In Our Time, Keep the Faith, kept, race
«In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Politics,
Speech
| Keywords:
indefensible, In Our Time, largely
«All these woes shall serveFor sweet discourses in our time to come.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
discourses, discoursing, In Our Time, The Discourses, time to come, woes