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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

~Alfred De Vigny

Topics: Believe Cares Character Epoch General Human Human Mind Mind Only True I Believe

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It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

~Amin Maalouf

Topics: Always Daydreamer Epoch Escape Feel Harmony Live Reality Relationship Societies Trying World

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Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sense of a great occasion. English critics have tried to claim him for their tradition, but, heard closely, his later music has that tremulous lyrical undertone which can be found in the Anglo-Irish eloquence of the eighteenth century.

~Austin Clarke

Topics: Brings Century Claim Close Closely Critics Eighteenth Eloquence English Epoch Found Great Heard Him His Later Least Lyrical Lyrics Music Occasion Regarded Sense Tradition Tried Which Work

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A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them.

~Christian Dior

Topics: Behind Country Epoch Idea Interesting Only Style Them

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We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.

~David Cronenberg

Topics: Babies Been Could Epoch Example Extraordinary Extraordinary Things First First Time For Example History Human Human History Major Means Need Race Recreate Sex Some Things Time True Which Without You

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Thinking about the new epoch - often called the Anthropocene, or the age of humanity - challenges us to look at ourselves in the mirror of deep time, measured not in centuries or even in millennia, but over millions and billions of years.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: About Age Billions Centuries Challenges Deep Epoch Even Humanity Look Measured Millennia Millions Mirror New Often Ourselves Over Thinking Time Us Years

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Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.

~Edgar Ramirez

Topics: Character Communications Epoch Governments Groups Media Radical Secret Services

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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

~Edmund Husserl

Topics: Area Epoch Fate Happenings Historical Humanity Life Placed Spiritual Spiritual Life Us Wherein Which Within Work

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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.

~Edmund White

Topics: Been Books Class Epoch Every Group Had Immigrant New New York Saga Social Social Class Subject Thousands York

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