Modern Quotes
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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.
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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.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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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.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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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.
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
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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.
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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.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
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The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
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Modern dancing is old fashioned.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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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.
