1976

Explore 30 quotes from the year 1976

Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?

Gordon Lightfoot

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Topic

Passage of time

Speaker

Gordon Lightfoot

Source

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Summertime Dream

Medium

Song

Genre

Folk rock Folk music

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Lightfoot, Gordon. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." Summertime Dream. Reprise Records, 1976.

I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!

Network

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Over it Anger

Speaker

Howard Beale

Actor

Peter Finch

Source

Network

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy drama (film) Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Network. Directed by Sidney Lumet, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1976.

Invention... Arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie

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Topic

Creativity Innovation Invention

Author

Agatha Christie

Source

An Autobiography (Agatha Christie)

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Christie, Agatha. Agatha Christie: An Autobiography. Collins/Dodd, Mead & Company, 1977.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Richard Dawkins

The Selfish Gene

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Topic

Evolution

Author

Richard Dawkins

Source

The Selfish Gene

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press, 1976, ch. 1.

They are in you and in me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence...they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.

Richard Dawkins

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Topic

Genetics Biology

Author

Richard Dawkins

Source

The Selfish Gene

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press, 1976, ch. 2.

When I make a mistake, it's a beaut!

Fiorello La Guardia

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Topic

Mistakes Going for it

Speaker

Fiorello La Guardia

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Guardia, Fiorello La. Quoted in Patience and Fortitude, by William Manners. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.

Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Topic

Immigration Assimilation

Author

Maxine Hong Kingston

Source

The Woman Warrior

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Kingston, Maxine Hong. "No Name Woman." The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

Marshall McLuhan

Advertising Age

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Topic

Advertising and marketing Art

Author

Marshall McLuhan

Source

Advertising Age

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

McLuhan, Marshall. Advertising Aid. 3 Sept. 1976.

What is finished...is the idea that this great country is dedicated to the freedom and flourishing of every individual in it. It's the individual that's finished. It's the single, solitary human being that's finished. It's every single one of you out there that's finished, because this is no longer a nation of independent individuals. It's a nation of some 200-odd million transistorized, deodorized, whiter-than-white, steel-belted bodies, totally unnecessary as human beings, and as replaceable as piston rods.

Network

Watch Network at Amazon Watch Network at Amazon

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Topic

The individual America Late capitalism

Speaker

Howard Beale

Actor

Peter Finch

Source

Network

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy drama (film) Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Network. Directed by Sidney Lumet, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1976.

Man lives like a robot: mechanically efficient, but with no awareness.

Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)

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Topic

Self-awareness Autopilot The human condition

Author

Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)

Source

Why Should I Grieve Now?

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Osho, aka Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree. "Why Should I Grieve Over Him?" A Sudden Clash of Thunder, 13 Aug. 1976, Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune, India.