Best Modern World Lines
217 Modern World quotes by 178 unique authors
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The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through…
— Gerald Stanley Lee
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The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in…
— Daryl Hannah
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Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have…
— Bill Gates
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Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
— Julian Fellowes
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Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with…
— Robert Harris
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Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
— Dalai Lama
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I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
— Chris Martin
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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable…
— Marshall McLuhan
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What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money.…
— Helen Mirren
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Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves. I apparently know…
— Alan Moore
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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
— David Ogilvy
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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
— Thomas Paine
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Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are…
— Salman Rushdie
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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
— Bertrand Russell
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What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal.…
— Will Self
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I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.
— Cat Stevens
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People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This…
— Eddie Vedder
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Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back…
— Steven Van Zandt
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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
— Alan Watts
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For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.
— Andrew Weil
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The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.
— Arsene Wenger
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Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.
— Helen Fisher
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It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts…
— Aldous Huxley
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