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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.


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obvious growing signs of war weariness, frustration, anger and disillusionment.
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TARIQ ALI Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
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RALPH ADAMS CRAM True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, an...
RALPH ADAMS CRAM In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, ins...
RALPH ADAMS CRAM If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and me...
RALPH ADAMS CRAM But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
RALPH ADAMS CRAM Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand ye...
RALPH ADAMS CRAM The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort a...
RALPH ADAMS CRAM As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calv...
RALPH ADAMS CRAM Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams.
ABIGAIL ADAMS There's a certain degree of disillusionment and disenchantment with how things stand today, but ther...
JOHN DANILOVICH I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innu...
EDMUND PHELPS What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one wit...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. -Ralph Waldo Emerso...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON This should be a great cause for alarm in the progressive family,
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ZACH HILL Ralph Buckland was quite an individual -- he was a lawyer, Civil War General, politician, businessma...
FRANK EACHUS His eye was a camera. Ralph was a beautiful man whose photography was second to none.
DAVID ROBINSON A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in Londo...
HAROLD PINTER Coventry is a tremendous test for our squad. They have a great history in this game, a great coach i...
CHRIS AGNELLO For a justice of this ultimate tribunal, the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for sel...
ABE FORTAS Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, to...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Allison Janney is amazing, and Anna Faris was a revelation to me.
MIMI KENNEDY Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
GEORGE SANTAYANA This legislation is supported ... across the spectrum, from Ralph Reed to Ralph Nader.
BOB GOODLATTE Success can be measured in terms of smiles and the speed of the initial "mad rush" to be the first i...
THE IMAGINEERS Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes ar...
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE My district is centered around the progressive college town of Boulder, Colorado, and the high-tech ...
JARED POLIS Dad's final and maybe his greatest public service was the great highway war.
CHARLES LARRICK Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art ph...
WILLIAM EGGLESTON said Adams. ''We're really going to miss Matt, but we're lucky we gained someone young like Neal who...
BILL ADAMS Now this state [that] gave us John Adams and John Kennedy has now given us John Kerry , a good man, ...
BILL CLINTON Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time
MARGOT FONTEYN Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.
MARGOT FONTEYN She was arriving at a revelation that the secret to living was simply forgetting
SANA KRASIKOV She was arriving at a revelation that the secret to living was simply forgetting
SANA KRASIKOV Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of myste...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of myster...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Our knowledge of life is limited to death
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Henry Adams and the Making of America,
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DEYTH BANGER Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Ralph never used computers. Everything was in his head, and business didn't seem to suffer a bit fro...
JOE TIERCE America indeed has become a progressive nation, if we understand "progressive" to mean progressing a...
RON BRACKIN Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of myster...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS And the people we’ve become, well, they’ve never been the people who we are.
ROB THOMAS The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.
ART SPANDER Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread befo...
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Ps...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Supply-chain applications are in a trough of disillusionment. CEOs signed off on supply-chain packag...
JEFF WOODS There is nothing more demoralizing than sudden, overwhelming disillusionment
DOROTHY THOMPSON There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in...
ANNE RICE All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.
JODI PICOULT The problem with Adams,
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation&#...
R. J. CUTLER Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired.
DYLAN LAUREN It was a revelation. It's not troubling to me at all.
MARY BARTHOLOMEW I was impressed with the kids tonight. I put Ralph at halfback and he shined with two goals. I was v...
JASON WHINEY It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around ...
PETER COYOTE What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated bet...
NAOMI WOLF Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.
SHERI HOLMAN There was only one manager who wanted to win the game and that was me. Micky Adams came here for a d...
PHIL BROWN Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW And Ralph always wound up these mental soliloquies by arriving at the conclusion, that there was not...
CHARLES DICKENS She seems to be a very bright woman. I've met her. But she's lost her progressive following because ...
SUSAN SARANDON Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN He has been good in the last two games since Danny Adams became ill and it will be great to have him...
PETER JACKSON The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
JOSE BERGAMIN In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as i...
MICHAEL KORDA In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.
EDWARD BROOKE I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisio...
PETER LANDESMAN I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in ...
BEN BARNES Every place Ralph owned was a success. The guy had a real touch when it came to this type of busines...
JOE TIERCE As a halfway decent college DJ, I had been exposed to some great progressive stuff and always took p...
MICK FOLEY Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
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HAMZA YUSUF We weren't writing it to sell the film and weren't writing it to sell the movie; we were literally g...
ARIE POSIN I want to continue what (former Principal) Ralph Olsen has done, but I'm not Ralph Olsen,
MICHAEL WELCH The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look....
RICHARD M. DEVOS It is a contradiction in terms and ideas, to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second-h...
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RALPH ELLISON Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
RALPH ELLISON By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You migh...
RALPH ELLISON Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him...
RALPH ELLISON America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become...
RALPH ELLISON When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
RALPH ELLISON Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to ha...
RALPH ELLISON I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might e...
RALPH ELLISON Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain de...
RALPH ELLISON