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Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed.… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
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The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
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On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
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[Photography] has become more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it is now incapable of photographing… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
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If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
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The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition. — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
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Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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