Modern Quotes
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I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of my life.
Carlos Miele
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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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It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.
Michael Morpurgo
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These days, the FBIS service regularly includes translations from many terrorist or terrorist-linked websites and chat forums. They provide an unprecedented inside look at how modern terrorist groups function and operate. They also offer a possible chain of evidence that, if properly investigated, can lead back to important transnational terrorist operatives. In other words, don't shut the websites down, but rather use them as a means to shut the terrorist organization down instead.
Evan Kohlmann
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Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.
Terry Eagleton
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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.
Scott Snyder
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The modern day soup line is a check in the mail.
David I. Rozenberg
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What the founders of modern science ... had to do, was not criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct or to replace them by better ones. They had to do something quite different. They had to destroy one world and replace it by another. They had to reshape the framework of our intellect itself, to restate and to reform its concepts, to evolve a new approach to Being, a new concept of knowledge, and a new concept of science - and even to replace a pretty natural approach, that of common sense, by another which is not natural at all.
Alexandre Koyre
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I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.
Tony Blair
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Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
Vera Brittain
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Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked.
Michael Behe
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The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.
Michael York
