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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. Votes: 4

C. S. Lewis

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Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. Votes: 4

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. Votes: 3

Julian Huxley

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Modern dancing is old fashioned. Votes: 3

Samuel Goldwyn

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Modern culture is a tremendous force. Votes: 3

John Gresham Machen

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Modern man is a hard-working human... Votes: 3

Ed Wood

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Modern morality is all about perception. Votes: 3

Rachel Cusk

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Modern feminism cannot survive without victims. Votes: 3

Katie Pavlich

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Modern cars I don't like so much. Votes: 3

Amber Heard

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Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp. Votes: 3

Joe Wright

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Modern money is almost altogether credit money. Votes: 3

John Buchanan Robinson

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Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster. Votes: 3

Ai Weiwei

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. Votes: 3

Pietro Mascagni

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Modern man has lost the option of silence. Votes: 3

William S. Burroughs

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Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing. Votes: 3

Frances Bean Cobain

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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times Votes: 3

Agnes de Mille

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Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man. Votes: 3

Benjamin Disraeli

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Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth Votes: 3

Arthur Goldberg

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Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. Votes: 3

John R. Rice

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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. Votes: 3

Agnes de Mille

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Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated. Votes: 3

John Barbirolli

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Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else. Votes: 3

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude Votes: 3

Marcel Breuer

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The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris. Votes: 3

Richard Tarnas

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Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air Votes: 3

Francis Schaeffer

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Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that. Votes: 3

Charles Bukowski

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Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it. Votes: 3

Geraldine Ferraro

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Modern man is sick because he is not whole. Votes: 3

Carl Jung

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Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth. Votes: 3

Arthur Goldberg

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Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests. Votes: 3

W. Heath Robinson

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Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means. Votes: 3

Alasdair MacIntyre

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Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished. Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day. Votes: 3

Chloe Grace Moretz

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Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink. Votes: 3

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch. Votes: 3

Roger Scruton

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There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons. Votes: 3

Hunter S. Thompson

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Modern political speechwriting is not a high-minded pursuit for brilliant talents. Votes: 3

Alex Pareene

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Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas Votes: 3

Milan Kundera

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Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards. Votes: 3

Thomas Yellowtail

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Modern art spreads joy around by its color, which calms us. Votes: 3

Henri Matisse

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Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction. Votes: 3

Marc Ribot

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Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present. Votes: 3

Loren Eiseley

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Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future. Votes: 3

Gregory Benford

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Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. Votes: 3

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity. Votes: 3

Frank Zappa

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Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before. Votes: 3

Lesslie Newbigin

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Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness. Votes: 3

Rebecca Solnit

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Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. Votes: 3

Paul Bert

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Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst. Votes: 3

Orrin Woodward

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Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable. Votes: 3

Noam Chomsky

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Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie. Votes: 3

David Hackworth

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AB de Villers is the most complete player of the Modern Era Votes: 3

V. V. S. Laxman

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I love Modern Family but it's among a handful of favorite shows. Votes: 3

Tim Gunn

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Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche. Votes: 3

Carl Jung

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Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food Votes: 3

Albert Allen Bartlett

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Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire. Votes: 3

Giorgio Armani

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I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman. Votes: 3

Jerry Harrison

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Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era. Votes: 3

Charlotte Gerson

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Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas. Votes: 3

Earl Wilson

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Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people. Votes: 3

Bryant McGill

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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore. Votes: 3

Larry Wall

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Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. Votes: 3

Henry Adams

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Modern society - everyone thinks getting cancer is a normal aspect of life. Votes: 3

Steven Magee

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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him. Votes: 3

William James

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Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs. Votes: 3

Steve Ilg

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It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems. Votes: 3

Corin Nemec

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Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. Votes: 3

Rama Swami

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Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers. Votes: 3

Alfred W. Crosby

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The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. Votes: 3

Bill Toomey

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I don't feel guilty about it, but I love me some 'Modern Family.' Votes: 3

Matt Lanter

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Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. Votes: 3

Jill Lepore

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Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature. Votes: 3

Alexander Ludwig

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Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go. Votes: 3

Vera Brittain

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Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses. Votes: 3

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. Votes: 3

Larry Wall

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Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know. Votes: 3

Michael Leunig

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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence. Votes: 3

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral. Votes: 3

Robert L. Millet

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Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself. Votes: 3

Alain Robert

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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. Votes: 3

George Bernard Shaw

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Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. Votes: 3

Freddie Mercury

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Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America. Votes: 3

Martha Graham

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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people. Votes: 3

Will Cuppy

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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy. Votes: 3

Frank A. Clark

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Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. Votes: 3

W. S. Merwin

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I gave myself two months to book a job. One month later I was cast on 'Modern Family. Votes: 3

Sarah Hyland

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I gave myself two months to book a job. One month later I was cast on 'Modern Family.' Votes: 3

Sarah Hyland

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We lack rituals in this modern world. Votes: 2

Elizabeth McGovern

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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. Votes: 2

Oscar Wilde

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Modern Society has turned blind; considering patience as cowardliness. Votes: 2

Srinivas Shenoy

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Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator. Votes: 2

Walt Disney

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The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol. Votes: 2

Herbert Read

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The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham . Votes: 2

George Orwell

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I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. Votes: 2

Michael Palin

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If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans. Votes: 2

Zakir Naik

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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' Votes: 2

Norman Ralph Augustine

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In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. Votes: 2

John Buchanan Robinson

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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. Votes: 2

Jackson Pollock

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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. Votes: 2

Jackson Pollock

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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you. Votes: 2

Larry Ellison

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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. Votes: 2

Salvador Dali

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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Votes: 2

Vince Lombardi

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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. Votes: 2

Ezra Pound

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. Votes: 2

John Ciardi

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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. Votes: 2

Alan Watts

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Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world. Votes: 2

L.A. Reid

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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman. Votes: 2

Zooey Deschanel

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Votes: 2

David Ogilvy

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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. Votes: 2

Ronald Reagan

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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. Votes: 2

Jackson Pollock

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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. Votes: 2

Susan B. Anthony

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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. Votes: 2

Lewis Mumford

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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. Votes: 2

Jackson Pollock

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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. Votes: 2

Ezra Pound

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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays. Votes: 2

Noam Chomsky

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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. Votes: 2

Edmond de Goncourt

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I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay. Votes: 2

Dylan Thomas

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. Votes: 2

Oscar Wilde

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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding. Votes: 2

Dalai Lama

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Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Votes: 2

Jacques Ellul

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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. Votes: 2

Albert Camus

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There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War. Votes: 2

Dennis Prager

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There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy. Votes: 2

Kat Graham

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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable. Votes: 2

Al Sharpton

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We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned. Votes: 2

Thor Heyerdahl

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Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature. Votes: 2

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.' Votes: 2

Zig Ziglar

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The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards. Votes: 2

Charles Stanley

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Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. Votes: 2

Nikola Tesla

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It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art. Votes: 2

Jerry Saltz

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The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination. Votes: 2

Norman Mailer

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Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses. Votes: 2

Paul Bloom

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Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously! Votes: 2

Steven Van Zandt

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It's modern-day slavery. Votes: 0

Adrian Peterson

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Clutter-clearing is modern-day alchemy. Votes: 0

Denise Linn

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... all the modern inconveniences ... Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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London is a modern Babylon. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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Most modern comedy is crap. Votes: 0

Ade Edmondson

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The classic literature is always modern. Votes: 0

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Stained glass enabled the modern world. Votes: 0

Kiki Smith

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The modern masters promise very little Votes: 0

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Robert Kraft, a modern day Zoolander. Votes: 0

Joe Buck

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I much prefer the modern world. Votes: 0

Keith Henson

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A turning point in modern history. Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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Abortion is 'the great modern sin. Votes: 0

Karl Barth

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We are the modern day gladiators. Votes: 0

Tito Ortiz

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I love the modern technology now. Votes: 0

Ringo Starr

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Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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I love to collect modern art. Votes: 0

Maria Sharapova

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Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine. Votes: 0

Atul Gawande

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Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern. Votes: 0

Eric Allin Cornell

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E-mails are the cancer of modern business. Votes: 0

John Caudwell

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I don't listen to much modern composition. Votes: 0

Colin Greenwood

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Simplicity is the soul of modern elegance. Votes: 0

Bill Blass

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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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To be modern is to destroy nature. Votes: 0

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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A modern school where football is taught. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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More modern poetry is written than read. Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke

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Color-blocking two bold shades feels so modern. Votes: 0

Brad Goreski

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The modern painter"¦is an excellent couturier Votes: 0

Joris-Karl Huysmans

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The kings of modern thought are dumb. Votes: 0

Matthew Arnold

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I do find modern jazz quite tricky. Votes: 0

Jane Asher

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Perversity is the muse of modern literature. Votes: 0

Susan Sontag

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Superficiality is the curse of the modern world. Votes: 0

Matthew Kelly

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I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature. Votes: 0

Harold Pinter

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Information is the religion of the modern world. Votes: 0

David Lodge

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The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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It's not just modern-day society that is liberal. Votes: 0

Rob James-Collier

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The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia. Votes: 0

Meg Ryan

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Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. Votes: 0

Egon Schiele

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I'm a post-modern vegetarian. I eat meat ironically. Votes: 0

Bill Bailey

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War is the ultimate realization of modern technology. Votes: 0

Don DeLillo

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An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern. Votes: 0

John Fowles

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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means. Votes: 0

Karl Lagerfeld

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. Votes: 0

Salvador Dali

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Next, we will create a modern immigration law. Votes: 0

Gerhard Schroder

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Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy. Votes: 0

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan

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War is the highest form of modern art. Votes: 0

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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I would loathe to work on modern films. Votes: 0

Julie Harris

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I love art; I collect mostly modern art. Votes: 0

Alan Patricof

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I love art, I collect mostly modern art. Votes: 0

Alan Patricof

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The modern dogma is comfort at any cost. Votes: 0

Aldo Leopold

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World needs a new order of modern economy. Votes: 0

Toba Beta

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False fears are a plague, a modern plague! Votes: 0

Michael Crichton

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... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography. Votes: 0

Albert Renger-Patzsch

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Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world. Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland. Votes: 0

Yayoi Kusama

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The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity. Votes: 0

P. D. James

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A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station. Votes: 0

Abbie Hoffman

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Chaykin's Shadow is a modern legend at his best. Votes: 0

Rick Remender

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The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics. Votes: 0

Charlie Pierce

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Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art. Votes: 0

Harry Anderson

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The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written. Votes: 0

Raymond Queneau

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Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Votes: 0

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world. Votes: 0

Bill Gaede

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The self is the modern substitute for the soul. Votes: 0

Allan Bloom

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The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth. Votes: 0

Claudio Monteverdi

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I think our seniors deserve a modern medical system. Votes: 0

George W. Bush

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. Votes: 0

Josiah Stamp

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The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism. Votes: 0

Paul Keating

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A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions. Votes: 0

Haim Ginott

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Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury. Votes: 0

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition. Votes: 0

Graham Joyce

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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy. Votes: 0

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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I must settle for freedom in this modern time Votes: 0

Leila Aboulela

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You are born modern, you do not become so. Votes: 0

Jean Baudrillard

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My style for the moment is modern mystic priestess. Votes: 0

Elisa Jimenez

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The typical modern has the look of the hunted. Votes: 0

Richard M. Weaver

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I really have a generation gap about modern clothes. Votes: 0

Julie Harris

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The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap. Votes: 0

Daniel Tosh

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It is better to imitate ancient than modern work. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation. Votes: 0

Helen Keller

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I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. Votes: 0

Delphine Arnault

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In a way, our family is our modern identity. Votes: 0

Susanne Bier

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The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism. Votes: 0

Charles Krauthammer

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The Second Amendment has no place in modern society. Votes: 0

Alan Dershowitz

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The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors. Votes: 0

Samuel Richardson

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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic. Votes: 0

David Copperfield

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If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles. Votes: 0

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world. Votes: 0

Andrew Dominik

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However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science. Votes: 0

Norman Lamm

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There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world. Votes: 0

Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

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The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'. Votes: 0

Barry Commoner

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The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Votes: 0

Camille Paglia

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Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process. Votes: 0

Chris Matthews

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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent. Votes: 0

Sydney Brenner

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Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces. Votes: 0

Geraldo Rivera

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Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing. Votes: 0

Rose George

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I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist. Votes: 0

Lianne La Havas

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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny. Votes: 0

Dan Stevens

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All art is bad, but modern art is the worst. Votes: 0

Joyce Cary

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My music is not modern, it is merely badly played Votes: 0

Arnold Schoenberg

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The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age. Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him. Votes: 0

Claire Forlani

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I am the very model of a modern major general Votes: 0

W.S. Gilbert

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Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things. Votes: 0

Oliver Hudson

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As a modern employer you have to treat people well. Votes: 0

James Dyson

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Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society. Votes: 0

Albion Woodbury Small

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What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity. Votes: 0

Twyla Tharp

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I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all. Votes: 0

Julie Harris

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America is losing faith in modern medicine, and for good reason. Votes: 0

Julian Whitaker

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The modern day soup line is a check in the mail. Votes: 0

David I. Rozenberg

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Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati. Votes: 0

Kim Harrison

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Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism. Votes: 0

Andrew Lo

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Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom. Votes: 0

G. Edward Griffin

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In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing. Votes: 0

B. Barmanbek

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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well. Votes: 0

Cyril Connolly

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In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors. Votes: 0

Lyndon B. Johnson

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I don't question our existence. I just question our modern needs. Votes: 0

Pearl Jam

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The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty. Votes: 0

Barnett Newman

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In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes. Votes: 0

Dave Barry

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Dead Witch Walking' is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati. Votes: 0

Kim Harrison

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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. Votes: 0

Robert Morgan

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Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt. Votes: 0

Don Van Vliet

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Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience. Votes: 0

Henry Waxman

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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley

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My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit. Votes: 0

David Guterson

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Marriage, [], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world. Votes: 0

Malcolm Bradbury

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The party at its best has always been a modern party. Votes: 0

Francis Maude

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I don't question our exsistence, I just question our modern needs. Votes: 0

Eddie Vedder

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The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything. Votes: 0

Laurence J. Peter

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The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths. Votes: 0

Joseph A. Schumpeter

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Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age. Votes: 0

Robert Bryce

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Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world. Votes: 0

R. Murray Schafer

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All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern. Votes: 0

Roland Barthes

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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business. Votes: 0

Garet Garrett

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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man. Votes: 0

Stewart Udall

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Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine Votes: 0

Gerhard Kocher

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The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist. Votes: 0

Herbert Read

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The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne. Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats

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I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones. Votes: 0

Kevin McCloud

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We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct. Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end. Votes: 0

Philip Larkin

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The story of Sodom is God's reminder to the modern world. Votes: 0

Sunday Adelaja

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Be yourself, be in the moment, you're going to be modern Votes: 0

Paola Antonelli

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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery. Votes: 0

Upton Sinclair

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The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan. Votes: 0

Barton Gellman

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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern. Votes: 0

Susan Sontag

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I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world. Votes: 0

Chris Martin

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The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional. Votes: 0

Dan Auerbach

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Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones. Votes: 0

Dana Gioia

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See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare Votes: 0

Eminem

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You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space. Votes: 0

Albert Hadley

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The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application. Votes: 0

Larry Ellison

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Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business. Votes: 0

Corinne Maier

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Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging. Votes: 0

H. L. Mencken

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I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers. Votes: 0

Joseph Fiennes

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Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families. Votes: 0

Wes Borland

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Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future. Votes: 0

Walt Kelly

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Ben Hogan is the most merciless of all the modern golfers. Votes: 0

Gene Sarazen

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Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights? Votes: 0

Helen McCloy

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The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western Votes: 0

Armand Assante

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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism. Votes: 0

J. Michael Bishop

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Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious. Votes: 0

Robert Lacey

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The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy. Votes: 0

Horace Walpole

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Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. Votes: 0

David Strathairn

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The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering. Votes: 0

Jose Andres

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China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world. Votes: 0

Lin Yutang

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Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers? Votes: 0

Jill Ker Conway

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Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance. Votes: 0

Jay Roach

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Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. Votes: 0

Jackson Pollock

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Canada's most important -- that is to say consequential -- modern voice. Votes: 0

Robin Blaser

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The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western. Votes: 0

Armand Assante

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Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened. Votes: 0

Anne F. Beiler

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Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. Votes: 0

Cyril Connolly

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Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy. Votes: 0

Ted Malloch

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The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence. Votes: 0

Anthony Daniels

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It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government. Votes: 0

Robert A. Agresta

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The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality. Votes: 0

Franz Grillparzer

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. Votes: 0

Octavio Paz

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In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers. Votes: 0

Randal Marlin

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I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional. Votes: 0

Lucinda Childs

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was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial? Votes: 0

Ian Mcewan

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To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths. Votes: 0

Joseph Goebbels

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Fatherlessness is a rot that is eating away at the modern soul. Votes: 0

Douglas Wilson

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The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon. Votes: 0

Amy Vanderbilt

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The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times. Votes: 0

Nicholas Murray Butler

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Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. Votes: 0

Louis Pasteur

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Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. Votes: 0

Helen Vendler

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Only a modern army will be able to fight a modern war. Votes: 0

Howard W. Koch

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The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods. Votes: 0

Benjamin Graham

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The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity. Votes: 0

Sogyal Rinpoche

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The most polluted animal on the planet today is the modern human. Votes: 0

Steven Magee

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Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else. Votes: 0

Cate Blanchett

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The Soviet Union is the focus of evil in the modern world. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan

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It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. Votes: 0

Guillermo del Toro

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It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism." Votes: 0

Guillermo del Toro

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Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life. Votes: 0

Alexander Rodchenko

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The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name. Votes: 0

Sophia Amoruso

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Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways. Votes: 0

Tayari Jones

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To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power. Votes: 0

Michael Scott

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You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you. Votes: 0

William J. Clinton

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Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.' Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world. Votes: 0

Walter Mosley

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To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing Votes: 0

Yohji Yamamoto

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A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge. Votes: 0

Richard Dawkins

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Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world. Votes: 0

Malcolm Bradbury

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The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem. Votes: 0

George F. Will

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The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking. Votes: 0

Sheryl WuDunn

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The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists. Votes: 0

George F. Will

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I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates. Votes: 0

Billy Joel

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In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception. Votes: 0

Nouriel Roubini

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Nothing in the world can replace the modern swimsuit, and it practically has. Votes: 0

Sam Ewing

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I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states. Votes: 0

Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival. Votes: 0

John M. Perkins

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The Internet is the great highway of the modern communication, free and independent. Votes: 0

Katya Chamma

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Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls. Votes: 0

Bruce R. McConkie

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Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth. Votes: 0

Ezra Taft Benson

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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. Votes: 0

Alfred Adler

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The speed at which modern CPUs perform computations still blows my mind daily. Votes: 0

Markus Persson

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Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends. Votes: 0

Kenneth Anger

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Primitivism has become the vulgar clichÃ© of much modern art and speculation. Votes: 0

Marshall McLuhan

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The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization Votes: 0

Franz Boas

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The problem of modern democracy is rooted in its neglect of unorganized people. Votes: 0

William Greider

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The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. Votes: 0

Franz Boas

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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. Votes: 0

Matthew Arnold

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Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society. Votes: 0

Raymond Loewy

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The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot. Votes: 0

W. H. Auden

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People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms. Votes: 0

Christian Louboutin

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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. Votes: 0

Piet Mondrian

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Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity Votes: 0

Guy Debord

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The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality. Votes: 0

Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh

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The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer. Votes: 0

Learned Hand

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Without freedom of speech there is no modern world, just a barbaric one. Votes: 0

Ai Weiwei

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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition Votes: 0

Alexander McQueen

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You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society. Votes: 0

Rem Koolhaas

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We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world. Votes: 0

Tony Blair

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A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world. Votes: 0

Vladimir Putin

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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. Votes: 0

Mary McCarthy

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However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. Votes: 0

Robert Casey

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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one. Votes: 0

Ai Weiwei

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I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia. Votes: 0

Alexander Lebedev

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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism Votes: 0

Mary McCarthy

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Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world. Votes: 0

Northrop Frye

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An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer. Votes: 0

Josemaria Escriva

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I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance. Votes: 0

Nastassja Kinski

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I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play. Votes: 0

Coleman Hawkins

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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are. Votes: 0

Evelyn Waugh

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You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food. Votes: 0

Tom Colicchio

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From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting. Votes: 0

Brad Meltzer

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This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims Votes: 0

Matthew Arnold

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The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free. Votes: 0

Jean-Paul Sartre

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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read. Votes: 0

Wally Lamb

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The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government. Votes: 0

Harry Reid

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Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. Votes: 0

James Dickey

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The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. Votes: 0

Robert Penn Warren

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The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways. Votes: 0

Chris Ware

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HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once. Votes: 0

Bill Watterson

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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. Votes: 0

Saul Bellow

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The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop. Votes: 0

James Mercer

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Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth. Votes: 0

Clint Eastwood

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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. Votes: 0

T. E. Lawrence

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I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. Votes: 0

John Barrymore

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The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ. Votes: 0

Joseph Goebbels

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I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond. Votes: 0

Emmanuel Jal

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I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther. Votes: 0

Martin E. Marty

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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. Votes: 0

Umberto Eco

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A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them. Votes: 0

Thabo Mbeki

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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now. Votes: 0

Lady Gaga

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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art. Votes: 0

Paul McCartney

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I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all. Votes: 0

Jennifer Worth

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Irony - The modern mode: either the devil's mark or the snorkel of sanity. Votes: 0

Julian Barnes

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I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths. Votes: 0

David S. Goyer

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I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me. Votes: 0

Hayao Miyazaki

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Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world. Votes: 0

Helen Fisher

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The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one. Votes: 0

Morarji Desai

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The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God. Votes: 0

R. C. Sproul

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Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again. Votes: 0

Olivier Theyskens

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We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way. Votes: 0

Guy Laliberte

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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one. Votes: 0

Ian Hamilton Finlay

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What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery? Votes: 0

Dillon Burroughs

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The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory. Votes: 0

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else. Votes: 0

John Leo

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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. Votes: 0

Stacy Schiff

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The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs. Votes: 0

Harold Innis

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There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern. Votes: 0

Lenny Kravitz

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Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it. Votes: 0

Smiley Blanton

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I'd love to do like a modern day 'Shining' and play the Jack Nicholson role. Votes: 0

Janet Montgomery

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You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island. Votes: 0

Wyclef Jean

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For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern. Votes: 0

Leigh Hunt

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When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had. Votes: 0

Howard Nemerov

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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. Votes: 0

Thomas Merton

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I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer. Votes: 0

John Eaton

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The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it. Votes: 0

D. H. Lawrence

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One of the most important things about looking youthful is to have a modern haircut. Votes: 0

Evelyn Lauder

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If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected. Votes: 0

Herbert Read

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I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women. Votes: 0

Katie Cassidy

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It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few. Votes: 0

Oscar Hammerstein II

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Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world. Votes: 0

Benedict Cumberbatch

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There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings. Votes: 0

Theodore Roosevelt

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The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action. Votes: 0

Jacques Ellul

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A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability. Votes: 0

Frank Whittle

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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. Votes: 0

Edward Abbey

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The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. Votes: 0

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize. Votes: 0

Rabindranath Tagore

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By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth. Votes: 0

E.A. Bucchianeri

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The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time. Votes: 0

Nancy Gibbs

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Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C. Votes: 0

Malcolm X

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The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall. Votes: 0

Nicholas Negroponte

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The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time. Votes: 0

Laurie Colwin

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The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. Votes: 0

Stephen Gardiner

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I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school. Votes: 0

Shelby Lynne

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I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance. Votes: 0

Deborah Bull

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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people. Votes: 0

Mihai Eminescu

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Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely. Votes: 0

Henry Rollins

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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work. Votes: 0

Henry Rollins

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I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India. Votes: 0

Kiran Desai

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I don't do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I'm just gone. Votes: 0

Johnny Depp

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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men. Votes: 0

Jessica Savitch

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SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies. Votes: 0

Diana Wynne Jones

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modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt. Votes: 0

Mark Kurlansky

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Boo-hoo. Help me, I'm a girl. What kind of modern woman are you? A smart one. Votes: 0

Eoin Colfer

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A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory. Votes: 0

M. Stanton Evans

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Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it. Votes: 0

Mike Curran

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The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag. Votes: 0

Robert Englund

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To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. Votes: 0

Anthony Burgess

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I really like the bohemian look, and I'm a great fan of mixing vintage and modern. Votes: 0

Kierston Wareing

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A slick ponytail is a great way to add a modern, minimal look to your outfit. Votes: 0

Brad Goreski

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Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it. Votes: 0

Clay Shirky

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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. Votes: 0

Ellen Glasgow

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A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them. Votes: 0

Jools Holland

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Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me. Votes: 0

Charlie Munger

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No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Votes: 0

Helena Bonham Carter

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E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate. Votes: 0

Anne Fadiman

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I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history. Votes: 0

George Bancroft

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I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer! Votes: 0

Elmore Leonard

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I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy. Votes: 0

Brendan Coyle

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There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz. Votes: 0

Robert Glasper

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The new Ann Taylor is for modern women who want to take on the world in style. Votes: 0

Demi Moore

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That was the peak. I just knew it was modern, not traditional culture. I could be cool Votes: 0

Li Peng

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There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song Votes: 0

Masanobu Fukuoka

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Everything you use in a modern life style has to be made using a tool of some sort. Votes: 0

Paul Harvey

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As a man I am not a killer. I'm an artist and a modern person. I'll choose sanity. Votes: 0

Frank Ocean

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A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. Votes: 0

Joseph Conrad

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You have to be physical - that's the way it is in a midfield in the modern game. Votes: 0

Jamie Redknapp

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We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are. Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut

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My aim is a very modern Dior, but at the end of the day, I also look back, Votes: 0

Raf Simons

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Alles wird wieder modern für den, der etwas Geduld hat.

Kern, Franz (biofranz)

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Wenn etwas Abstoßendes modern wird, ist es sofort anziehend.

Picasso, Pablo

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Moral ist jenes Maß von Anständigkeit, das gerade modern ist.

Fellini, Federico

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A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

Walter Gropius

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The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

Wendy Cope

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The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

Andrew Hoberek

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You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment.

Graham Hill

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Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.

Guillermo del Toro

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I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

Henry Cavill

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In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.

Herbert Read

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Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.

Jean Sasson

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Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

Marshall McLuhan

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India is committed to strong armed forces, well-equipped with modern arms & technology!

Narendra Modi

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If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

Reginald Hudlin

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What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.

Tessa Dare

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I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie

Willie Morris

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We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

Os Guinness

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The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

Aldous Huxley

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The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.

Coventry Patmore

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The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

Helen Rowland

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Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

Moses Finley

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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

Pearl S. Buck

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Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man.

Robert S. de Ropp

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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

Roger Wolcott Sperry

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I think in a lot of modern action movies, it's hard to see what's going on. Shaky cam...

Tommy Wirkola

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The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

Allen Carr

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I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.

Bethany Cosentino

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Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

C. S. Lewis

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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

Clarence Darrow

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The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

Italo Svevo

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The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

Jacques Maritain

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Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

Lawrence Lessig

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The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

Shawn Achor

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The Internet is a modern infrastructure that plays a key role in the future of the state.

Thomas de Maiziere

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Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

Desiderius Erasmus

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Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Ernest Hemingway

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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

Georges Bernanos

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Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

Stanley Kunitz

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Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

Alfred North Whitehead

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By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.

Charles Spurgeon

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Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?

Edward Jenks

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I think that's very important for romantic comedies, that they do deal with [modern]issues.

Jennifer Lopez

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The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

John Fowles

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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

Lord Dunsany

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Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

Susan Sontag

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The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

Arthur Honegger

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The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

Bertrand Russell

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Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

Iqbal Quadir

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Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.

Laura Schlessinger

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To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.

Mason Cooley

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Four times Hillary Clinton has lost the presidency in eight years, a modern American record.

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

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Four times Hillary Clinton has lost the presidency in eight years, a modern American record.

Rush Limbaugh

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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

Sinclair Lewis

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The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy.

Jacques Maritain

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Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.

Jose Arguelles

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Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

Le Corbusier

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I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.

Mat McNerney

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Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.

Michel Chossudovsky

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Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.

Patience Strong

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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

Salman Rushdie

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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

Salvador Dali

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I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

Sylvester Stallone

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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut..

Twyla Tharp

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

George Bernard Shaw

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Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.

George Nelson

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The church lives on the fact that modern research about Jesus is not known amongst the public.

Hans Conzelmann

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It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

Jessica Lange

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Still very active And rarely seen apart You're teenage geriatrics Modern and young at heart

John Walter Bratton

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Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

Nicholas Eberstadt

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Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

Ross Perot

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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

Sinclair Lewis

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Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

Viktor Korchnoi

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Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

Ai Weiwei

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I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.

Anne Roiphe

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A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is

George Alagiah

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Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

Herman E. Daly

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No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

Irving Kristol

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People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!

J. R. R. Tolkien

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The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

Pankaj Mishra

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Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.

Pete Townshend

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Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

Sylvain Tesson

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To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.

Taner Edis

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I'm alarmed that to think than modern science may be turning creativity into a medical disorder

Thomas Armstrong

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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

Oscar Wilde

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All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.

Carl Schmitt

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God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!

Caryll Houselander

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All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

David Attenborough

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The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

Edward Ruscha

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Donald Trump is the most dangerous person to run for president in the modern history of America.

Hillary Clinton

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A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

Shana Alexander

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To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

Vine Deloria Jr.

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The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

Wendell Willkie

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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

Oscar Wilde

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I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

Adam Sandler

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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.

Alain de Botton

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You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?" "I was hungry, allowances should be made.

Gail Carriger

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Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

Ivars Peterson

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Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.

Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

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It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

Susan Sontag

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To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.

Walter Pater

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Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

Andre Breton

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The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

C. S. Lewis

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Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

Confucius

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In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media.

D. James Kennedy

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The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

Dick Morris

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How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?

Hans Rookmaaker

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In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

Rebecca MacKinnon

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You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

William J. Clinton

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To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

Oscar Wilde

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The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

David Berlinski

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Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

G. M. Trevelyan

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A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

James MacArthur

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God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.

Mark E. Petersen

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The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

P. J. O'Rourke

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That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

Paula Rego

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I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.

Shelley Winters

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I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.

Alan Bishop

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The Europeans who went to Africa came back with âmodern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

Duke Ellington

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In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.

Evan Sayet

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I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

George Michael

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We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.

Howard Dean

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The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

Julien Benda

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I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

Oscar Wilde

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In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.

Ali Gomaa

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Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

Dave Barry

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The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

E. F. Schumacher

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the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?

Golda Meir

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We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity.

Hillary Clinton

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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

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Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.

Robert Heilbroner

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If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Galileo , perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Stephen Hawking

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Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.

Theodore Beale

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The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

Thomas Merton

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Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

David Chilton

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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

Douglas Coupland

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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

Jaggi Vasudev

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A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

Marie Stopes

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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.

Robert B. Laughlin

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Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.

Sai Baba

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The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.

David Riesman

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The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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It's the modern world, so it's pretty much the same. Everyone follows America, from all over the world.

Meital Dohan

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Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

Murray Gell-Mann

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The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life.

Nirmala Srivastava

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With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

Sharon Begley

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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

Bernard Crick

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'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.

Catherine Wilson

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Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.

Dalai Lama

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The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

Ed Simons

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You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.

Elaine Paige

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No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.

Elie Abel

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America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

Ernest Gellner

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I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.

Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

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Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

John Steinbeck

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It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

P. G. Wodehouse

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Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

Pascal Bruckner

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Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

Peter Drucker

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The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage

Robert James Waller

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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Oscar Wilde

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One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

Bertrand Russell

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Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

Edward Abbey

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I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

Georgette Heyer

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The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.

Hal Boyle

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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

Mahatma Gandhi

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In traditional societies, nature was seen as one's wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

Abraham Maslow

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The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

Austin O'Malley

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Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

Bertrand Russell

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

George Bernard Shaw

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Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

Ian Hacking

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Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

Jackson Pollock

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I mean, the 1930s are the birth moment of modern public sector, government-driven infrastructure spending.

Judy Woodruff

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Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

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A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own.

Scott Snyder

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It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.

Ben Aaronovitch

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Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.

Clare Wright

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Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube.

Ed Rollins

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In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

Edward Abbey

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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

Evelyn Waugh

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Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.

Gary Haugen

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The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world

Laurence J. Peter

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I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

Rick Baker

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Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

Walter Lippmann

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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

D. H. Lawrence

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In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

Emma Goldman

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One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

John Ashbery

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Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

John Sterling

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No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Everybody is so goddamn sure of themselves, it just makes you realize this is the curse of the modern world.

Scott McClanahan

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I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world

Viktoria Modesta

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The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.

Charles Spurgeon

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Modern programs must handle Unicode "Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.

Guido van Rossum

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Stop viewing China like it's the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.

James Packer

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In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Jason Clarke

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As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.

John Feldmann

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We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

John Fowles

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Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.

Milton S. Eisenhower

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We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.

Sophie Ristelhueber

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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

Oscar Wilde

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I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.

Alain Ducasse

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It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

Bertrand Russell

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In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

Charles William Eliot

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The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.

Charlie Munger

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On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

Erich Fromm

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There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.

George Augustus Henry Sala

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SÃ¬ is my tribute to modern femininity, an irresistible combination of grace, strength and independent spirit.

Giorgio Armani

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To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

Irwin Edman

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There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

Joe Goddard

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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

Kate Adie

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I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

Nicholas Sparks

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In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.

Peter Boghossian

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Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

Robert Lowell

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The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

Theodor Haecker

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I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

Zach Braff

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I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.

Christopher Pike

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Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.

James David Barber

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[Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.

Rush Limbaugh

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Should #â graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that

Banksy

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I have a responsibility to the woman of today - to make her feel confident, modern and above all else beautiful.

Carolina Herrera

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If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

Christian Morgenstern

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Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

James Russell Lowell

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The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

Jean Danielou

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We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

Jerry Bridges

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A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.

Johnny Cash

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The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

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["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story.

Roland Emmerich

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In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.

Thomas Yellowtail

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Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

Amelia Earhart

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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

Berthold Auerbach

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In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

Christopher Hitchens

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The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.

Joseph Campbell

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I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.

Julian Casablancas

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It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.

Mark Waid

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The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.

Meg Rosoff

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I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved.

Natalia Vodianova

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Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

Paul J. Zak

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Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

Pierre Alechinsky

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In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

U Thant

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It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

Will Cuppy

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The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

Aldis Hodge

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The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

Bertrand Russell

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Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.

Eric Bolling

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The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

George Santayana

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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.

Jens Jensen

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If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

Marcus Garvey

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Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

Richard Florida

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Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home.

Walter Farrell

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Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

Walter Raleigh

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I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

Bob Dylan

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The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.

Karl Shapiro

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The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

Susan Sontag

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The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.

Vance Havner

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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.

Akbar Ganji

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Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

E. M. Delafield

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Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

Frank O'Hara

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To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

Friedrich Nietzsche

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For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.

George W. Bush

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All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

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...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

Murray Rothbard

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The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.

Peter Kreeft

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And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

Robert Motherwell

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I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

Shelby Foote

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Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

Tom Stoppard

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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

Oscar Wilde

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Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are