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«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)
| Keywords:
As It Happens, contemporary, contemporary world, crying, extinction, Islam, Islamic, Islamic World, Muslims, outstanding, propagation, The Contemporary
«I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.»
Author: Jascha Heifetz
(Violinist)
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Beethoven, composer, composers, contemporary, discourage, First to, occasionally, remind, secondly
«Many contemporary authors drink more than they write»
«Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
contemporary, contemporary history, encompass, encompassed, encompasses, encompassing, ideology, Makers, pornographer, pornographers, pornography, pretensions, satire, Satires
«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.»
«Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; they're enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.»
Author: Truman Capote
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
confined, contemporary, demons, enraptured, mesmerize, mesmerized, navels, subjective, the French, toes
«Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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commensurate, compel, competitive, considerable, contemporary, exhibits, phenomena
«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
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contemporary, dedicate, dedicates, dedicating, flowering, fostered, fostering, fosters, humanity, one way, The Contemporary, to that
«The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
contemporary, spirituality, The Contemporary
«Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
Aestheticism, contemporary, creators, homosexual, homosexuals, ironies, irony, Jewish, Jews, minorities, moral force, outstanding, Pioneering, pioneers, sensibilities, sensibility, seriousness, truest, Two Cultures, urban
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