#contemporaries

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either. ↗

— Robert Barany

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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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Why was I born with such contemporaries? ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#contemporaries #dramatic #every #his #including

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now. ↗

— Kenneth More

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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

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