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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.


William Arthur Ward


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But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.


Mercy Otis Warren


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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.


Simone Weil


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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.


Edmund White


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Why was I born with such contemporaries?


Oscar Wilde


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The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.


Kit Williams


#ancient #contemporary #contemporary society #engine #i

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.


Ricky Williams


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Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.


Rowan Williams


#anger #contemporary #culture #disgust #even

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.


Alex Winter


#burnt #cool #cool thing #culture #end

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.


Jeanette Winterson


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