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• Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that… — Lionel Trilling
• We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search… — John F. Kennedy
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• Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility… — George F. Kennan
• The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age… — Seneca the Younger
• If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only;… — Hannah Arendt
• I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. — Larry Wall
• The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs. — Harold Innis
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