Modern Quotes
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?
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I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.
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In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.
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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition.
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Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
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Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.
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AB de Villers is the most complete player of the Modern Era.
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... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.
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The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.
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While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular love are well traveled and their markers are well understood by many - the mesmerizing attraction, the idealization obsession, the sexual afterglow, the profound self-sacrifice, and the desire to combine DNA. But true love takes its own course through uncharted territory. It knows no fences, eludes modern measurement, and seems scientifically woolly. But I know true love exists. I just can’t prove it. Believe Love Is People Profound Desire Common I Believe Obsession Modern Enough Fence True Love Is Prove It Prove Mesmerizing Attraction Sacrifice Self Sacrifice Afterglow Dna Elude Markers Measurement Self Territory Uncharted Uncharted Territory Understood Wells Courses Fortunate Seems Traveled Knows
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Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.
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For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.
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We are a band that stylistically crosses a lot of barriers and generational gaps. The heavier portion of the band, the modern music elements, the visual part of the band appeal to a younger audience. For an older audience, we have chops and great songs that are reminiscent of the things that were great about rock and roll when they enjoyed it. We're the kind of band that can cross those lines.
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Josh Gad and I have been friends since the time he auditioned for Modern Family. I directed the pilot for that, and that's how we met.
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A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.
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The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
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Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.
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I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
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Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity.
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I have more than thirty thousand hours of family and relationship counseling experience under my belt. Over the years, I have seen changes in relationship trends walk through my therapy office doors. My richest gifts are translating the complexities of love and desire in modern relationships into something simple and accessible. I can offer informed advice that makes people feel comfortable, knowledgeable, and confident.
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I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.
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There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.
