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In southern Europe, reciprocal help is an important value, for emotional and material reasons. Young people leave home later than their northern European contemporaries. They live close to their parents, so their parents can help with child-rearing and then they, in turn, take care of elderly parents. Because of COVID, this system is now in crisis. – Alessandro Rosina	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Either of my contemporaries or of my successors, will, by means of the method when once established, be able to discover other theorems in addition, which have not yet occurred to me. – Archimedes	added by acronimous 4 years ago
The U.S. has always been identified with such forces operating beyond the scrutiny of its democratic institutions: the Masonic influence was regarded as a driving force, a deep state, taking root as early as George Washington with his contemporaries’ blessing and participation. – Hugh Dugan	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
President Trump tends to talk in personally evaluative terms - both positively and negatively - about his contemporaries. During his campaign, he was better known for his personal insults, but he is also a very complimentary president, hIs compliments, however, tend to be less substantial in terms of touting the complimentee's professional credentials or abilities, and are rather generally evaluative. – Jennifer Sclafani	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Famous shipbuilders such as Donald Mackay referred to a certain part of his ships as having a 'forepeak'. Has anyone discovered any of his contemporaries as seeking to exceed his prowess by incorporating five, six or more 'peaks' in their ship design? – Francis M. Faber Jr.	added by WerterBuch 8 years ago
The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries. – Goethe	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Why was I born with such contemporaries? – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Why was I born with such contemporaries – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. – William Faulkner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference. – Alan Valentine	added by anonymous 14 years ago

In southern Europe, reciprocal help is an important value, for emotional and material reasons. Young people leave home later than their northern European contemporaries. They live close to their parents, so their parents can help with child-rearing and then they, in turn, take care of elderly parents. Because of COVID, this system is now in crisis.

– Alessandro Rosina

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Either of my contemporaries or of my successors, will, by means of the method when once established, be able to discover other theorems in addition, which have not yet occurred to me.

– Archimedes

added by acronimous
4 years ago

The U.S. has always been identified with such forces operating beyond the scrutiny of its democratic institutions: the Masonic influence was regarded as a driving force, a deep state, taking root as early as George Washington with his contemporaries’ blessing and participation.

– Hugh Dugan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

President Trump tends to talk in personally evaluative terms - both positively and negatively - about his contemporaries. During his campaign, he was better known for his personal insults, but he is also a very complimentary president, hIs compliments, however, tend to be less substantial in terms of touting the complimentee's professional credentials or abilities, and are rather generally evaluative.

– Jennifer Sclafani

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Famous shipbuilders such as Donald Mackay referred to a certain part of his ships as having a 'forepeak'. Has anyone discovered any of his contemporaries as seeking to exceed his prowess by incorporating five, six or more 'peaks' in their ship design?

– Francis M. Faber Jr.

added by WerterBuch
8 years ago

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

– Goethe

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

– Oscar Wilde

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Why was I born with such contemporaries

– Oscar Wilde

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

– William Faulkner

added by anonymous
14 years ago

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.

– Alan Valentine

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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