Best Modern Times Sayings

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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative… — Idries Shah
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on… — Tom Stoppard
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have… — Kurt Vonnegut
Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all… — Kage Baker
For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have… — Marisha Pessl
The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said?… — Milan Kundera
The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up and condemns us,… — John Piper
Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the… — Hannah Arendt
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are… — Howard Zinn
A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times;… — John Gresham Machen
In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display. — Nirmala Srivastava
The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life. — Nirmala Srivastava
We have to get awakened to the fact that in recent decades, great destruction has been caused to our moral values as a result of… — Nirmala Srivastava
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times. — Julian Assange
If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times… — Ted Cruz
The fact is that the Democratic Party in modern times has always had a conservative wing, one frequently as strong or stronger than its liberal… — Rick Perlstein
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times. — John Lothrop Motley
The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part… — Bernhard von Bulow
Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business… — James Buchan
He who doesn't modernize himself doesn't live the present and will not live the future. — Jean-Paul Malfatti
I was told a moving wedding dress story(www.pandadress.com/wedding-story.html) today told by my neighbor. She was about 80 years old now. Her hair has been white… — Cocosoup
It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. — Guillermo Del Toro
All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong. We… — William Butler Yeats

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