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“You don't have to go to another planet to see the aliens, just look at the people in the interesting dresses of the seventies!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When a trapper entered the valley, I reflected back on my life as an Indian. "I'm sure as an Indian living on the plains, I trapped animals for their fur and for their meat, I took what I needed for survival, but doing it for profit somehow rubbed me the wrong way”

Magic Mystery Environmental Marijuana Seventies Natural World Unfaithfulness Hippies Generational Sixties

Book:The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower

Source: The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower

“Sometimes I feel as if I've lived about six lifetimes...all fictionalized in my six books.”

Seventies Single Motherhood Sixties Radical Protest

Book:Miles to Go

Source: Miles to Go

“If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties--or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing.”

History Seventies Sixties

Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“The Summer of Love had already given way to the the winter of Who the f--k are you?”

Seventies Loss Of Innocence

Book:The King of Kings and I: The Greatest Story Ever Kvetched!

Source: The King of Kings and I: The Greatest Story Ever Kvetched!

“If I'm an archangel, you can hide under my wing until the sun comes up”

Drugs Angels Seventies Teenagers Prostitutes Runaways Hustlers Runaway Teens

Book:HSTQ: Fall 2020

Source: HSTQ: Fall 2020

“Why were we so full of hope in those days? Looking back, I see so clearly that violence was worsening. Living through that time, we didn’t see that. We believed in our capacity to grow a great country. A just society.”

Seventies Guatemala Guatemalan Civil War Ixcan Land Reforms Todos Santos

Book:La Chiripa

Source: La Chiripa

“Is that a quote from a seventies Swedish porn? In that case: haven't seen it. What's the title?”

Humor Seventies Dark Humor Swedish Porn Title

Book:Quotes and Thoughts

Source: Quotes and Thoughts

“The idea of betrayal was in the air. The Summer of Love had migrated, in its drug-resistant strain, to the Connecticut suburbs about five years after its initial introduction.”

Book:The Ice Storm

Source: The Ice Storm

“There was an urge growing through the Seventies - and perhaps after all it was the normal urge of the British - to look for offence, to feel morally affronted, and to make someone suffer for it.”

Morality Hypocrisy Seventies Offence 1970s

Book:The seventies: Britain's inward march

Source: The seventies: Britain's inward march

“Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.”

Writing I Can Hard Bits Percent Originals Seventies

Author:Mike Rutherford

“I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.”

Used Realizing College Degrees Tools Therapy Seventies

Author:J.K. Simmons

“Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.”

Made Ready Percent Credit Stores Plus Seventies

Author:Sandra Lee

“When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.”

Needs Writing Firsts Shows Worry Television Tvs Internet Online Tv Shows Seventies Eighty Website Blockbuster

Author:Al Franken

“My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.”

World Style Music Is Pops Seventies Eighty Great American

Author:Barry Manilow

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”

“I died last night. Seventy years too young.”

Years Lasts Young Night Died Seventies Last Night

Author:Colin Thompson

“If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.”

Ifs Ideas Kids Acting Security London Good Ideas Seventies Comprehensive Personal Security Prancing

Author:Steve McFadden

“It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.”

Needs Spirit Names Conditions Conversation Ego Psychological Seventies Catalogues

Author:Richard Rosen

“If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.”

Ifs America Communication Seventies Preventing Insistence

Author:Richard Rosen

“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts; the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what comes next, and the joy in the game of life.”

Heart Joy Next Games Stars Challenges Wonder Events Sweet Appetite Seventies Sixteen Childlike Amazement Childlike Wonder Undaunted

Author:Samuel Ullman

“I loved the seventies.”

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.”

Years Tvs Ten Sitting Chairs Seventies Watching Tv

Author:Janis Joplin

“The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.”

Two Gold Logic Absolutes Metals Sovereign Seventies Grapes Sects Alchemist

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive.”

Littles Made Real Three Animal Alive Progress Mystery Ten Bird Hundred Structure Plant Fishes Smallest Seventies Insects Ninety Eighty Dots Marvellous

Author:Hokusai

“Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.”

Age Funny Joy Sin Humorous Seventies

Author:Golda Meir

“The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.”

Years Age Victory Weight Size Height Seventies Stature

Book:The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

“The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person may be forty, fifty, seventy years old - that does not matter, that is the physical age. He has been growing old, but he has not been growing up. You should note the distinction. Growing old, every animal does. Growing up, only a few human beings manage.”

“Seventy-five percent of our energy around the earth is being poured into war efforts. Are we servants of death and destruction? This 75 percent of energy could be poured into life, into the service of life-and there will be laughter, and there will be greater health, and there will be more wealth, more food. There will be no poverty. There is no need for poverty to exist at all.”

Needs War Motivational Earth Energy Wealth Effort Poverty Five Greater Laughter Percent Destruction Servant Seventies

Author:Rajneesh

“Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies.”

Reality Mother Seventies

Author:Carol Thatcher

“Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you. Never, until the end of time, will there be another such as you. You have shown no knowledge or appreciation of your uniqueness. Yet, you are the rarest thing in the world.”

World Humans Ends Planets Like You Appreciation Billions Uniqueness End Times Seventies

Author:Og Mandino

“How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.”

Ifs Knows Men Stills Able Dark Skins Seven Shells Seventies Hares Slough

Book:Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

“After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment.”

Years Preaching Seventies Garments Hem

Author:W. A. Criswell

“The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.”

Years Years Ago Organization Employee Minorities Seventies

Author:Peter Drucker

“I think people are always looking for gurus. It's the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It's quite terrifying. I once saw something fascinating here in New York. It must have been in the early seventies--guru time. A man used to go and sit in Central Park, wearing elaborate golden robes. He never once opened his mouth, he just sat. He'd appear at lunchtime. People appeared from everywhere, because he was obviously a holy man, and this went on for months. They just sat around him in reverent silence. Eventually he got fed up with it and left. Yes. It's as easy as that.”

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Author:Doris Lessing

“What can you say about a guy who lets himself be saddled with a baby when he's thirty-five and losing his hair? Love? Forget about that till you're past seventy, and by then the parts will have stopped working anyway.”

Past Guy Forget Five Hair Baby Losing Thirty Seventies

Author:Gunter Grass

“In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent.”

Real Battle Percent Technique Thirty Seventies

Author:Morihei Ueshiba

“I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows.”

Men Self Form Law Suffering My Own Forever Sacrifice Fairs Vote Fellows Quitting Oppression Self Respect Seventies Foul Public Life Infliction

Author:Joseph Gurney Cannon

“I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.”

Trying Years Sometimes Would Be Lying Night Imagine Periods Odd Awake Being The Best Seventies Awake At Night

Author:Michael Dirda

“I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.”

Mean Kids Growing Up Growing Policy Models Fruit Feds Foreign Policy Drs Seventies Statesmen Loops Ruth Kids Growing Up American Foreign Policy Kissinger

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government .”

Government Night Black Christ White Vision Enemy Disciple Seventies Day And Night Religion And Government Against Religion

Book:Prefatory note There is no natural religion. All religions are one. The marriage of heaven and hell Visions of the daughters of Albion. A song of liberty. America. Europe. The book of Urizen. The book of Los. Ahania. The song of Los. The four Zoas. Milton. Jerusalem. On Homer's poetry; On Virgil. Laocoön. The ghost of Abel

Source: Prefatory note There is no natural religion. All religions are one. The marriage of heaven and hell Visions of the daughters of Albion. A song of liberty. America. Europe. The book of Urizen. The book of Los. Ahania. The song of Los. The four Zoas. Milton. Jerusalem. On Homer's poetry; On Virgil. Laocoön. The ghost of Abel

“No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.”

Years Has Beens Made Lasts British Ministers Judgement Prime Ignored Prime Minister Seventies Initials Stanley

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession in which one is a baby at 50 and middle-aged at seventy-five, it is natural that anyone who has not actually been disgraced should feel that he still has a future.”

Knows Feels Should Stills Political Difficult Natural Five Middle Baby Profession Seventies Statesmen Middle Aged

Book:The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell

Source: The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell

“In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us, ready to shut down our systems if our fetus-feeding fat reserve drops below a certain percentage of body weight. In other words, in nature's eyes we are nothing but milk sacs and fat deposits.”

Ifs Firsts Body Eye Certain Realizing Ready Weight Fats Developing Related Milk Reserves Runners Feeding Seventies Percentages Deposits Fetus Hovering Calcium Body Weight

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.”

Subjects Percent Fifty Sixty Seventies Tire Eighty Haiku

Author:Matsuo Basho

“Since we are what we are, what shall we be But what we are? We are, we have Six feet and seventy years, to see The light , and then resign it for the grave .”

Years Light Feet Six Graves Seventies

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“By the early seventies I had become an Englishman - that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.”

Half England Hated Seventies Englishmen

Author:Nick Hornby

“It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.”

World Stills Two Might Left Wish Victory Twenties Seven Glad Seventies

Author:Lucy Stone

“People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies.”

People Thinking Havens Unusual Seventies

Author:Lady Gaga