Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Physical stamina is a component in leadership, even in the modern world, where it isn't necessary to be able to harness an… — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
It may make you feel nice to pretend that the societies that gave rise to the modern world were ones of pure… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more foreign to the hermit than the clownery of a glittering career, success, and all those vulgar illusions that… — Cornelius Wencel Copy Share Image
“He was the first of the true Anastatosantes of the modern world, as only an English-speaking man could be—of the most thorough,… — George Smith Copy Share Image
Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as… — Mildred Blaxter Copy Share Image
Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“The slow movement is not about doing everything at a snail's pace. Nor is it a Luddite attempt to drag the whole… — Carl Honoré Copy Share Image
We have a strong and vital role to play in Iraq, and we certainly cannot leave a vacuum for the insurgents to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think you can imagine everyone has ankle weights on, or technology, and there's a reason that people aren't floating around. But… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
It's more than usually possible that I won't do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Our children are exposed to 10, 20, 30 times the number of words that our great-grandfathers were exposed to. We're exposed in… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“We must change life,' the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“Secularized young men eagerly entering the modern world with their shorn beards found it in practice frustratingly obdurate and alienating: ‘the kingdom… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to demonstrate in the streets, what is the significance of that collective activity so symptomatic of the twentieth… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the… — Ennio Morricone Copy Share Image
“The great inequality of the modern world that emerged in the nineteenth century was caused by the uneven dissemination of industrial technologies… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“[Acknowledgments] I recommend them all for further reading, but when you're finished, you may have to read several of my books and… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I think that Rodney Stark studies of new religious movements in the modern world give us some insights into the kinds of… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Just as medieval culture did not manage to square chivalry with Christianity, so the modern world fails to square liberty with equality.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There… — Chris Cooper Copy Share Image
“Fresh newsprint, good coffee, assorted texts, some messages on her BlackBerry, what more could the modern world offer?” — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“The modern world trains one to fight. - The classroom is the world, the teachers are everyone, the training rules are kindness,… — Bhiksus Heng Sure, Heng Ch’au Copy Share Image
We think the way we do partly because Socrates thought the way he did. His basic idea - that the unexamined life… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
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