Modern Quotes
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way.
Steven Cojocaru
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
Dan Stevens
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
Nate Berkus
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
Patricia Hewitt
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
Salman Khurshid
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
T. E. Lawrence
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Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
Abraham Verghese
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Wallace Stevens
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
A. N. Wilson
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
Wally Lamb
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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 printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
E. F. Schumacher
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
Lady Gaga
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More modern poetry is written than read.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
Larry Ellison
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
Imre Kertesz
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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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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
Fidel Castro
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The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.
Hailee Steinfeld
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
Walter Pater
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
Ibrahim Babangida
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Modern dancing is old fashioned.
Samuel Goldwyn
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
Ian Hamilton Finlay