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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell
Thomas Merton
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This strange disease of modern...
Russell Baker
Subject: Society QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Octavio Paz
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Walter Lippmann
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man`s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce
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The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief
Jacques Ellul
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Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.
Gerhard Kocher
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In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway
Subject: War QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue
Charles Simmons
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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
G.K. Chesterton
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The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully t...
Fritjof Capra
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In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and "experts" have affirmed it. "Studies show" is to the modern secular c...
Dennis Prager
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My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society from people who have so much yet act as if life and society have conspired to oppress them.
Dennis Prager
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
Hamlin Garland
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard
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Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.
Pope John Paul II
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Amanda Bradley
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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn`t know what he is doing.
William Wordsworth
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[1970 comment on Jean Renoir] He`s my style. Renoir`s good for actors. Renoir obviously loves actors and understands actors, and "La Grande Illusion," which I saw recently, is so modern that it could have been made this year -- the acting and the staging ...
James Mason
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Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn`t really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He`s not from another planet,...
Christopher Nolan
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[on Rudolf Valentino] That Valentino was certainly a very splendid fellow. And his unique glamor was not entirely due to the fact that he was unhampered by banal dialogue. Modern dialogue is not always banal, and the screen hero who could match Valentino`...
James Mason
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Asked why modern Hollywood is so liberal: "I think the Sixties have happened between when I was there and now. A lot of the actors and actresses, their parents were Sixties people and they just have a Democratic left wing - they flipped."
Jane Russell
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Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be ... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course. - Talking about modern Hollyw...
Charlton Heston
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[In a 1990 interview, Garson deplored the violence of many modern films] "I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it`s reflecting life -- toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those...
Greer Garson
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[1998] Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn`t know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred or volcanoes happened. Modern religion is the end trail of modern mytho...
Bruce Willis
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[1998] Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn`t know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred or volcanoes happened. Modern religion is the end trail of modern mytho...
Bruce Willis
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It`s nice to be loved and for one`s contribution to be recognized in some way. I suppose I agree that we have had an influence on modern popular music. (Speaking in 2005)
David Gilmour
