quotes about Advent
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We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.
-- Alex Campbell -
Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.
-- Bill McKibben -
Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods.
-- Harold SpeedSource : Harold Speed (2012). “The Practice and Science of Drawing”, p.72, Courier Corporation
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For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself.
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Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with the advent of effective contraception anyone chooses to reproduce at all.
-- Lionel ShriverSource : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.26, Counterpoint Press
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Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down.
-- Pope Francis -
No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.
-- Sun Myung Moon -
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
-- Theodore Bikel -
If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you will not have the slightest fear or trembling even with the advent of innumerable impending calamities.
-- Torii Mototada -
Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.
-- Ninon de L'Enclos -
Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock. You don't necessarily need to have a degree in music composition to play in a rock band anymore, which is a great thing.
-- Colin MeloySource : Source: www.avclub.com
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Boxing is not coming back. There's not going to be a new Ali or a new Tyson. What's happened to movies is happening to boxing-that is, too much availability of alternative, similar entertainment. Movies started to become diluted with the advent of television; that has been mirrored by the dilution of boxing, with kickboxing and absolute, extreme homicidal fighting.
-- James TobackSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Beethoven and Liszt have contributed to the advent of long hair.
-- Louis Moreau GottschalkSource : Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Jeanne Behrend (2006). “Notes of a Pianist”, p.120, Princeton University Press