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In modern day evangelism, this precious doctrine [of regeneration] has been reduced to nothing more than a human decision to raise one's hand, walk an… — Paul Washer
Hansen’s disease”—that’s the other modern name, I guess, for leprosy—“Hansen’s disease was so rare in the America that in 40 years only 900 people were… — Lou Dobbs
There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that… — Irving Kristol
There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus. What… — Unknown Author
Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. — Unknown Author
Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap… — Stanislav Grof
Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from… — Mark Steyn
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought. — Francis Picabia
I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world. — Walter Mosley
You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy… — Patricia Hewitt
A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users. — Patricia Hewitt
The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us;… — Phil Cousineau
The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where self-doubt is minimal,… — Chris Hedges
The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we… — Timothy Geithner
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. — Georges Bernanos
In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization. — Christopher Hitchens
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems. — Reinhold Niebuhr
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his… — Eugene H. Peterson
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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