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1 " Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. "
― William Faulkner
2 " Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. "
3 " Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with. "
― Richard Rorty
4 " Writing a modern novel in a national language hence means writing with the awareness that you inhabit the same world as others around the globe. You see the same world map and the same world history as your contemporaries elsewhere, though how each of you interprets and relates the same historical events may vary greatly. "
― Minae Mizumura , The Fall of Language in the Age of English
5 " Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events. "