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The Contemporary
«The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
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As It Happens, contemporary, contemporary world, crying, extinction, Islam, Islamic, Islamic World, Muslims, outstanding, propagation, The Contemporary
«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)
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«The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.»
«Why was I born with such contemporaries?»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Despair,
Self Importance
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Born, contemporaries, such, The Contemporary, Was, why
«What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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afterwards, centuries, contemporary, diaries, diary, document, documented, documenting, documents, invaluable, reads, student, The Contemporary, treasures
«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)
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appellant, appellate, appellate court, author, competitor, contemporaries, court, obscure, popular, posterity, reversed, reverses, Reversing, The Contemporary
«What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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contemporary, fictitious, for the most part, obsolete, Real part, substitution, The Contemporary
«The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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contemporary, spirituality, The Contemporary