Quote by Johan Huizinga
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desper

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. – Johan Huizinga

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These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. – Johan Huizinga

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Faith
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An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic. – Johan Huizinga

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Attitude
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In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science. – Johan Huizinga

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Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean youre very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people. – Annie Lennox

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A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that. – Kathleen Turner

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Age

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. – Helen Hayes

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No lie ever reaches old age. – Sophocles

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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. – French Proverb

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What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership. – Susan Faludi

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Leadership

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. – Gary L. Francione

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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design. – Edward Tufte

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design