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Letter "E" » eras
«An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted»
«No matter how thoroughly and searchingly we may have scrutinized works of literature from the historical and biographical point of view, we must be able to tell good from bad, the first-rate from the second-rate. We shall otherwise not write literary criticism at all, but merely social or political history as reflected in literary texts, or psychological case histories from past eras.»
Author: Edmund Wilson
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Keywords:
all but,
biographical,
eras,
first rate,
historical,
Histories,
literary,
literary criticism,
literary work,
point of view,
Political history,
psychological,
reflected,
scrutinize,
scrutinized,
scrutinizing,
searchingly,
second rate,
texts
«In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.»
«For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life.»
«It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.»
«Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.»
«The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.»
«I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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President)
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Keywords:
aggregated,
Corporations,
corruption,
endeavor,
enthrone,
enthroned,
enthrones,
era,
eras,
higher power,
high hand,
prejudices,
prolong,
prolongs,
reign,
reigning,
republic,
The Corporation,
The Republic
«The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
adjusted,
adjusting,
adjusts,
each other,
era,
eras,
infancy,
inward,
lover,
outward,
retained,
retaining,
senses,
spirit,
The Lover,
The Spirit,
to each other,
truly
«In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.»