Modern Age Quotes - Page 2

• Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.

  Jane Smiley

  Assessment, Age, Fields

  Jane Smiley (1995). “Moo”, Knopf

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• Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.

  Yul Brynner

  Simple, Important, Age

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• I find the public reaction to writing - it's fascinating in this modern age. Of course people are able to interact with me and email me, and I get quite a few I suppose.

  John Gimlette

  Writing, People, Age

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Data, Age

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• I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

  Shane Smith

  Thinking, Age, Looks

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• While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. ... I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.139, Vintage

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• I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.

  Stephen Fry

  Discovery, Age, Modern

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

  Bernard Werber

  Children, Israel, Egypt

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• Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also offers us a commanding view of a city, London, and country at the dawn of the modern age and of a man being overawed and overtaken by new technologies such as photography and the railways. As ever with Leigh, 'Mr Turner' addresses the big questions with small moments. It's an extraordinary film, all at once strange, entertaining, thoughtful and exciting.

  Dave Calhoun

  Photography, Country, Artist

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• Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Self, Arrogance, Age

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• Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be sustained because meaninglessness, anomie, and despair will corrode the desire to be sustained and the belief that humanity is worth sustaining. But these are the very things that distinguish the modern age from its predecessors, Genuine sustainability, in other words, will come not from superficial changes but from a deeper process akin to humankind growing up to a fuller stature.

  David W. Orr

  Growing Up, Giving, Humanity

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• We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person.

  Desmond Tutu

  Pain, Ideas, Age

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• The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it is atheistic in principle. It could have been the starting point for the atheistic movement in the modern age.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Communication, People, Atheism

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• It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself ... and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe's man ... a spectator of the world ... Third Schopenhauer's man ... voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth.

  Georg Brandes

  Pain, Men, Age

  "An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism" by Georg Brandes, 1889.

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• Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Laughter, Thinking

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• The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Age, Modern, Masters

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• The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  People, Age, Realizing

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “The Cycle of Spring”, p.16, Sai ePublications

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• I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Children, Humanity, Suffering

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• It seems to me that we spend most of our spiritual energies trying to explain why the God of Elijah, Samson, David, and Paul seems to have lost His muscle in our modern age. Did He grow tired of performing heroics? Did He wax feeble after all these years of running this whole universal show? Could it be true that God has really lost His muscle? Maybe it would be more accurate to say God lost His men.

  Eric Ludy

  Running, Spiritual, Tired

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• In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Important, Age, Modern

  "The global power shift". TED conference, www.ted.com. December 2011.

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• Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

  Pete Waterman

  Mind, Age, Majority

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• The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

  Walter Lippmann

  Ambition, Men, Animal

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

  Saul Bellow

  Science, Age, Lines

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• The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire. . . . Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Spiritual, Land, Space Flight

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• You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Zombie, Age

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