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The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world. — Robert Penn Warren
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. — Anthony Burgess
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt,… — Julia Kristeva
The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder. — Douglas Coupland
You have to attack the source of your enemy’s strength. In America’s case, that’s not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance.… — Greg Mortenson
The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness.… — Soren Kierkegaard
I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it… — Regina Doman
Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses… — Bertrand Russell
In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a… — Margaret Wise Brown
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its… — Henry David Thoreau
Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Atlantis: Fabled. Mystical. Golden. Mysterious. Glorious and magical. There are those who claim that it never was. But then there are also those who think… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they… — Will Eisner
Superficiality is the curse of the modern world. — Matthew Kelly
The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline. — Matthew Kelly
I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,'… — Regina Doman
To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power. — Michael Scott
Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world. — Mother Teresa
Even if I’d been wide awake, I knew Dimitri would’ve taken my suitcase anyway. That’s how he was, a lost remnant of chivalry in the… — Richelle Mead
Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world. — Malcolm Bradbury
The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery. — Bertrand Russell
What is the pattern of worship that best conveys the richness of divine grace, faithfully interprets the gospel in our modern world and helpfully consolidates… — Unknown Author
For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and… — Richard Leakey
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed… — John W. Gardner

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