Modern Quotes

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Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage. — Paul Robeson
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals… — Agnes de Mille
It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event.… — Simon Kuper
It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city. — Unknown Author
A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no… — Henry H. Arnold
A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming blow from the… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble after you have… — Charles Rumney Samson
In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is… — Rowan Atkinson
More than ever before, in our country, this is the age of the individual. Endowed with the accumulated knowledge of centuries, armed with all the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called… — Chaim Potok
You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment. — Graham Hill
Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately… — Doug Henning
I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old… — Fernando Pessoa
This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of… — Pope Leo X
The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it… — Daniel H. Pink
Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an… — Ibrahim Babangida
Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge. In the modern world, we… — Sathya Sai Baba
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free… — Andrew Motion
So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues. — Huston Smith
Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated… — Bix Beiderbecke
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an… — Walter Pater
All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues. — Tony Judt
Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls. — Bruce R. McConkie
Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the… — Ezra Taft Benson

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