Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I am religious by nature, I'm not a nihilist. I don't follow, I don't even know what the tenets of things like… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value"… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should… — Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley Copy Share Image
I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art,… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman. — Jerry Harrison Copy Share Image
In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Blockchain technology, or distributed ledger technology, is just a way of using the modern sciences of encryption to enable entities to share… — Blythe Masters Copy Share Image
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching… — Beck Copy Share Image
Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as… — David Edward Copy Share Image
Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's… — Frank B. Salisbury Copy Share Image
“Setting a goal is like to set your destination point in your life GPS which could take you to your desire position… — Rashedur Ryan Rahman Copy Share Image
Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of… — Bernard Werber Copy Share Image
“It's absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris,… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
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