Modern Quotes
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A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.
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There is no business model in the modern media that promotes comity. If we worried too much about criticism, we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.
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There are some things I don't like, about which I think, well, that's me. But coriander is a giant hoax perpetrated by a perverted society.
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Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.
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You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz.
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
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In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.
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In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.
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What Batman is saying is that, "I want to try something new that's more about this era and this moment." And I do think that it speaks to a modern take [as opposed] to a 90s take or a 2000s take being maybe the older program about having a sidekick.
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It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.
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We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.
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Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.
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In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities.
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Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
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Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern.
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Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
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Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.
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We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.
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The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.
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Many people don't know that you don't spend 10 minutes without using a satellite. Or that agriculture is managed from space. Banking, too. The space program is like our airports and highways. It's not a luxury. It's part of the fabric of the modern world.
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I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.
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We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
