Modern Quotes
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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 modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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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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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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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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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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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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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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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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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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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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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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More modern poetry is written than read.
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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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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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The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
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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.
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Modern dancing is old fashioned.
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
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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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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.
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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.
