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Letter "E" » epoch
«It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .»
Author: Charles Dickens
| About:
Personality
| Keywords:
age of, epoch, epochs, foolishness, incredulity, season, spring, The Age
«Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.»
Author: Le Corbusier
(Architect)
| Keywords:
day by day, determining, discern, epoch, epochs, unhappily
«Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.»
Author: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
(Architect)
| About:
Architecture
| Keywords:
architecture, epoch, epochs, translated
«All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| About:
Events
| Keywords:
epoch-making, epoch, epochs, produced, revolutionaries, revolutionary, spoken, spoken word
«It is not a pleasant epoch in one's life - the first forty eight hours at a large public school»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
epoch, epochs, Forty eight, public school
«A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.»
«The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
class, e'en, epoch, epochs, i.e., I E, ruling, rulings, ruling class, the class, The Ruling Class
«Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Air conditioning, antiquated, bourgeois, compelled, distinguish, earlier, epoch, epochs, frozen, ossified, ossify, production, profaned, profaning, revolutionize, revolutionized, revolutionizing, sober, solid, sweep away, swept, Swept Away, venerable
«There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slave»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Democracy,
Revolution,
Society
| Keywords:
contained, epoch, epochs, insecure, measure up, primitive, revolutionary, Seeds, The Seeds
«The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
assumes, epoch, epochs, formation, household, infancy, operates, privation, privations, revolutions, somewhat, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating, way of life, wonted
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