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Quotes About Era

Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
~ John Milton
... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
~ Saul Bellow
He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.
~ Helen Keller
The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great French Revolution.
~ Moses Hess
I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.
~ Wesley Morris
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.
~ Mason Cooley
The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.
~ Mieczyslaw Jastrun
I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the 'golden age' of real estate.
~ David Lereah
Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
~ Jaron Lanier
Technology/science," "pure/applied," "internal/external," and "technical/ social" are some of the dichotomies that were foreign to the integrating inventors, engineers, and managers of the system- and network-building era. To
~ Wiebe E. Bijker
If you wish to know an era, study its most lucid nightmares. In the mirrors of our darkest fears, much will be revealed. But don't mistake those mirrors for road maps to the future, or even to the present.
~ William Gibson
The last great dispute of the era was a heavily theological affair between Hippolytus, one of the most influential theologians at Rome, and Callistus, the bishop of that city.
~ William J. Bennett
Hays was thinking of Prohibition, "which had by no means produced the era of national sobriety its proponents had contemplated.
~ William J. Mann
Indeed, the ancestral proof that Nazis began to require of German citizens would not have been possible without the formalization of genealogy that began in imperial Germany and continued through the Weimar era. Even
~ Christine Kenneally
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
~ Heinrich Heine
For the mobilization of young people was another singular feature of the Republican era. In the early 1930s, many middle-class university students had become Republican activists.
~ Helen Graham
How do we understand prejudice, hatred, and violence in the context of modern societies, like our own, among people much like ourselves, among men and women who lived, not in dark times, but in an era when the balance of opinion was against the all-too-open expression of hatred?
~ Helmut Walser Smith
It is through ignorance of the Unconscious psyche and through the pursuit of an exclusive cult of Consciousness that our era has become so completely atheist and profane.
~ Henry Corbin
We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.
~ Henry Ford
In every era and in every culture, warnings abound regarding the errors to which that culture is least prone. In puritanical eras, pastors preach about the dangers of indulging the flesh. In indulgent eras, TV talk show hosts warn about the dangers of puritanism. In an era of "walk tall" and "stand proud," it takes courage to teach humility. And it won't earn you many friends.
~ Leonard Sax
Many observers, including the present author, believe that the Soviet system as it developed under Stalin was a continuation of Leninism, and that the state founded on Lenin's political and ideological principles could only have maintained itself in a Stalinist form; such critics hold, moreover, that 'Stalinism' in the narrow sense, i.e. the system that prevailed until 1953, has not been affected in any essential way by the changes of the post-Stalinist era.
~ Leszek Ko?akowski
We have lived too long. The great days are past.
~ Lev Grossman
The Second Amendment was passed in an era when organized police forces were few and citizen militias were useful in maintaining the peace.
~ Blase J. Cupich
A great laptop running the new kinds of user interfaces and apps that people now love on phones and tablets would be a big, exciting event that would help seal the deal. But there hasn't yet been a product that emphatically suggests the era of the traditional PC is fading.
~ Walt Mossberg