Best Modern World Words
217 Modern World quotes by 178 unique authors
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Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.
— Northrop Frye
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The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world has discovered, is…
— Henry Hazlitt
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In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.
— Thomas Yellowtail
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I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.
— Martin E. Marty
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The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the very process forces…
— Michael Kenna
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Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people.
— Mihai Eminescu
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In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its own boundaries.
— Dalai Lama
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Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains…
— Lynne Truss
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Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering…
— Criss Jami
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A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An…
— Emily Greene Balch
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When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade,…
— Paul Bremer
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Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we…
— David Gemmell
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The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
— Timothy Garton Ash
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In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?
— Noah Emmerich
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The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour…
— Thomas Huxley
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Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being.…
— Mildred Blaxter
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In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the…
— Del Howison
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If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.
— Joel Fuhrman
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It's more than usually possible that I won't do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language. I…
— Bill Nighy
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The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which…
— Louise Bourgeois
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The way to develop your psychic ability is by learning to create a shield between yourself and the sensorial and vibratory bombardment that we experience…
— Frederick Lenz
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Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.
— R. Murray Schafer
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