“In the modern world, those whom we effectively hate are distant groups, especially foreign nations. We conceive them abstractly, and deceive ourselves… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Yesterday, I tried to call Northwest Airlines' customer-service line over a couple of hours. I couldn't get through. The recording said, "Due… — Jay Nordlinger Copy Share Image
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
The truth for women living in a modern world is that they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared, but accepted… — Ralph Lapp Copy Share Image
“If we focus on the meat, this contrast is, financial death and warrior death, a split which Oswald Spengler calls 'hunger death'… — Moesy Pittounikos Copy Share Image
“In Modern world internet technology is getting advance day by day. Uship is also getting advance day by day. This script helps… — Akshay Copy Share Image
“If you are ignorant of Lora Delane Porter’s books that is your affair. Perhaps you are more to be pitied than censured.… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate… — Alexander Waugh Copy Share Image
“For at the beginning of the twentieth century, the nation had been struggling to find its way. Terror had raged, a second… — Howard Blum Copy Share Image
“Of course, when the barbarians doggedly persist and use the most refined methods to destroy morality, the family, and the mystery, it… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
“More and more, I felt that I was meeting people like Lee who didn't at all seem part of this modern world… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“The modern world is drowning in information. We have more data than we can possibly use regarding nearly every picayune matter of… — Jeffrey A. Lockwood Copy Share Image
For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means… — Arleigh Burke Copy Share Image
One reason why people find applying the Bible to work so difficult is that the world of Scriptures seems so distant from… — David Kim Copy Share Image
I had been reading a lot of J.G. Ballard in the 90's and was fascinated by the idea of the vapid consumer… — Miles Aldridge Copy Share Image
The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Everybody on this island has one ambition, which may be summed up very simply. It is to do something, however small it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced… — Carlton J. H. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Fond of bewailing the decadence of the modern world, of denouncing the younger generation for its lack of idealism and public spirit,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal… — Immanuel Wallerstein 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
The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
“Irish demographics reveal two startling facts: There are around 70 million people worldwide who claim Irish descent, and Ireland today has barely… — Ryan Hackney 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
I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I have a guy friend who said to me, "Hey, you know it's strange, feminism is cool now." I think now people… — Abigail Tarttelin Copy Share Image
“While the stoning of children for heresy has fallen out of fashion in our country, you will not hear a moderate Christian… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness,… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
“In the struggle for power, or simply economic survival in the modern world, many women who have children find that they must… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“to study the ambitions and appetites of a family launched upon the modern world, making superhuman efforts but always failing because of… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When we, for example, see shifts of huge production lines from certain areas to other countries, people tend to ask the question,… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Your DVD collection is organized, and so is your walk-in closet. Your car is clean and vacuumed, your frequently dialed numbers are… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
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