Modern Quotes
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The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
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I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
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Modern man has lost the option of silence.
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If you asked me to sing a modern song, I wouldn't be able to - I can't easily slip into that groove. But if it were a song by Nico or The Velvet Underground, fine.
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Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
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My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
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There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.
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It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
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The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
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Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.
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See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.
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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
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Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.
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If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence
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Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.
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Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
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In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
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Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
