Modern Quotes
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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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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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When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.
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As for modern Journalism, its not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.
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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
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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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Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.
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My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
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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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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence
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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
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In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
