Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality. — Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh Copy Share Image
I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube. — Ed Rollins Copy Share Image
We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The modern designers are quite showy, and a lot of the young people really like it. Costume jewelry has always been about… — Judith Miller Copy Share Image
Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Messrs. Washington and Lincoln would be appalled and saddened by what their successor, President Obama, and the modern Democratic Party are doing… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a… — Claudia Roth Pierpont 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
But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
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