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As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world. -- Lech Walesa
Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord's song in a strange land. -- David Novak
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist. -- Leonard Baskin
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred. -- George Crumb
A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it. -- Claudio Hummes
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. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. -- Leopold Von Ranke
The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at. -- Tyler Cowen
It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world. -- Umberto Eco
The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you're trying to figure it out, and you're really looking in the right direction, everything's going to be all right. -- Andie MacDowell
I have a British voice and a rather formal one at that, having been brought up in post-WWII Britain. My voice is perfectly suited to the sort of book I write, I think. It would not fit a contemporary, besides which I do not know enough about the contemporary world to write convincingly or comfortably about it! -- Mary Balogh
So many people report to be contemporary dancers, and they're not. They are sort of jazz dancers that feel like they're throwing a bit of classical in there. I mean, a true contemporary dancer has got ballet as their base and classical ballet, and that is their base. And then they choose to extemporize on that and go into a contemporary world. -- Nigel Lythgoe
Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people. -- Elizabeth Bishop
...a little kindness-love-smile-understanding-willingness to help each other may yet go a mighty long way in contemporary-rational-materialistic-world.... -- Isabella Koldras
There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world. -- Amartya Sen
I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided. -- Thomas Kinkade
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends. -- Walter Becker
Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S. -- David Rockefeller
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times. -- Suzanne Collins
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore -- Brian De Palma
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore. -- Brian De Palma
It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle. -- Linda Hogan
Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards. -- Damien Hirst
The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation... -- Henri Nouwen
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. -- Nicholas Serota
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen. -- Lauren DeStefano
When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world. -- Michael Craig-Martin
He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts. -- Murray Leinster
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films. -- Agnes Varda
The Prince of Calcutta. Two of his special qualities are his intelligence and articulation, both of which have helped him immensely in the world of contemporary cricket. -- Geoffrey Boycott
I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time. -- Julian Fellowes
As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis. -- Douglas Alexander
Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the book I'm writing at the moment. -- Nelson DeMille
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world. -- Iris Johansen
The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world. -- Clarence John Laughlin
Beyond the mythology, Wonder Woman gets to play with several dichotomies. It's Amazon culture versus man's world; ancient mythological times versus the contemporary world; and, of course, all the male and female issues. -- Bruce Timm
In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern. -- Margaret Mead
The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social conditioning that most individuals experience in the modern era. -- Frederick Lenz
The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social conditioning that most individuals experience in the modern era. -- Frederick Lenz

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