Modern Quotes
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Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.
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The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.
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He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.
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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.
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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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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
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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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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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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined.
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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!
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I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.
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Hungary has no raw materials and no major energy sources; we have some agricultural background. So what we produce here in Hungary is the result of our labor and minds, and then we have to sell it to the world. If we are not able to do that, if we are not innovative enough, if we are not modern and open enough, we can't do that.
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People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.
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I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
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Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!
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What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.
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That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
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As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.
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Consumers around the world always want something unexpected and exciting, and that's what drives me. I love the challenge of reinterpreting my designs in new ways each season to keep the "prep look" modern and fresh.
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Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
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In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.
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I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!
