Modern Quotes
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I love 'Modern Family;' I don't exactly watch it when it's on, but I try to catch up on it when I can; it's one of my favorite shows.
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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.
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In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?
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Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
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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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I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.
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Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
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My rule of thumb is to strike a balance by sticking to the classics and playing with color, texture, and print to give them a modern update. On any given day, I keep it simple with jeans or chinos and a comfortable dress shirt.
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The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
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At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work. Within a couple of hundred years, most of those possibilities were abandoned in favor of a text that efficiently transmitted sentiments.
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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.
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I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.
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The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.
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I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.
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The classic literature is always modern.
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The Olympics have been an amazing part of Los Angeles' history. In many ways in 1932, they put us on the map when people didn't even know where Los Angeles was. In 1984, they were the first profitable Olympics of the modern era.
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There are big questions about the sort of skills you need in modern government today. You put politicians in charge of billions of dollars with absolutely no training and very little support system around them. It's an extraordinary thing.
