Modern World Quotes - Page 17

• The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

  Al Franken

  Money, Media, America

  "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them". Book by Al Franken, September 2003.

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• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Humor, Law

  "Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost". Book by Lawrence Thompson, 1942.

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• More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Weight Loss

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

  Bill Gates

  Powerful, Thinking, Political

  Interview with Scott Bevan, www.radioaustralia.net.au. February 28, 2012.

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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 issues of empire and terrorism.

  Robert Harris

  Thinking, Issues, Years

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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 evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Hate, War

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations 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• I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated.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

  Kings, Believe, Leader

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• I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

  Chris Martin

  Thinking, Evil, World

  "Coldplay's frontman turns on 'evil' shareholders". www.independent.co.uk. May 18, 2005.

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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 means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Real, Mean

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• You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

  Chris Cooper

  Art, Grace, World

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• Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us to explore His double revelation, in nature and Scripture, with the minds He has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply His marvellous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.

  John Stott

  Christian, Mind, Development

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• The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ

  John Stott

  Christian, Jesus, Secret

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• Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

  John Betjeman

  Views, Luxury, Oil

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• Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.

  Northrop Frye

  World, Messages, Hell

  Northrop Frye, Nicholas Halmi (2004). “Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake”, p.45, University of Toronto Press

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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 through the system known as capitalism - the system of private property, free markets, and free enterprise.

  Henry Hazlitt

  World, Incentives, Way

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.95, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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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

  Spiritual, Loss, Men

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.121, University of Oklahoma Press

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• I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

  Martin E. Marty

  Hard Times, World, Modern

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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 top of another, without caring if each thing was crushed in turn. People forgot that the human soul can enjoy a thing most when there is time to think about it and be thankful for it. And by crowding things together they lost the sense of surprise; and surprise is the secret of joy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Caring, Thinking

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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 that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Comfort, Breaking Silence, Arches

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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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 me to connect with the world. When you make four-hour exposures in the middle of the night, you inevitably slow down and begin to observe and appreciate more what's going on around you. In our fast-paced, modern world, it's a luxury to be able to watch the stars move across the sky.

  Michael Kenna

  Photography, Stars, Moving

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• Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people.

  Mihai Eminescu

  Law, Lazy People, World

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