Modern Quotes

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Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively. — Deepak Chopra
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost… — Winston Churchill
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. — John Ciardi
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy. — Frank A. Clark
We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on… — Nick Clegg
I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world. — Paulo Coelho
The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India. — B R Ambedkar
We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in… — Ian Anderson
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. — Tadao Ando
Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities.… — Marina Abramovic
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. — Susan B. Anthony
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade… — Germaine Greer
Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home. — Carl Sagan
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy… — Hannah Arendt
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it. — Ronald Knox
That was the peak. I just knew it was modern, not traditional culture. I could be cool — Li Peng

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