Modern Quotes - Page 15

• I feel like records are moments in time, a modern moment that feels right then and it found its way to us then, that minute. We can all try and repeat records we have made that had success, but it's not possible.

  Shelby Lynne

  Trying, Records, Way

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

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• The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and non-religious segments of society. The euthanasia idea came from neither the radical right-wing nor the conservative corner. It was and remains part of the modern age and progressive thought.

  Gotz Aly

  Religious, Class, Wings

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• This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Important, Constitution

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• Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the latest gadget, the latest model of anything that is on the market, is the dream of everybody, in comparison to which the real pleasure in use is quite secondary. Modern man, if the dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Real, Men

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• Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Different, World, Consumerism

  Lesslie Newbigin (1988). “Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture”, p.111, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.

  Thomas Merton

  Children, Character, Reality

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• We are a band that stylistically crosses a lot of barriers and generational gaps. The heavier portion of the band, the modern music elements, the visual part of the band appeal to a younger audience. For an older audience, we have chops and great songs that are reminiscent of the things that were great about rock and roll when they enjoyed it. We're the kind of band that can cross those lines.

  Andy Biersack

  Song, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview with John Katic, www.revolvermag.com. March 5, 2013.

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• It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And it was a magic which could only strike spark about that time. A few years earlier, from the point of view of aircraft alone, it would have been impossible to reach these places; a few later, and there will be no such isolation.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Views, Years, Magic

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• You got to do what's happening today in the world. You got to keep up with time. Keep up to date, keep modern - keep up on your toes!

  Jack LaLanne

  World, Today, Toes

  Source: aliveeastbay.com

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• The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Government, Civilization

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.8, Rajpal & Sons

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• Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Night, Civilization, Taught Us

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.54, North Atlantic Books

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• Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.

  Jon Turteltaub

  Spiritual, Silly, Magic

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• The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers and advances and innovations that blow our minds. But we have soul, and spirit, and consciousness, and the modern world hasn't done so well at helping us name and understand what it means to be thriving and fully alive with a full heart.

  Rob Bell

  Song, Heart, Mean

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• Modern thinking is that time did not start with the big bang, and that there was a multiverse even before the big bang. In the inflation theory, and in string theory, there were universes before our big bang, and that big bangs are happening all the time. Universes are formed when bubbles collide or fission into smaller bubles.

  Michio Kaku

  Thinking, Bangs, Theory

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• Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.

  Robert Longo

  Art, Play, Squares

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• I love Modern Family but it's among a handful of favorite shows.

  Tim Gunn

  Modern Family, Shows, Handful

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won't be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn't be either.

  Betty Friedan

  Thinking, Diversity, Feminism

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Betty Friedan : Beyond the 'Feminine Mystique:' A New Era of Women's Rights". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. April 26, 1992.

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• Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Stress, Responsibility, Needs

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Teaching, College, Men

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.83, Penguin

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• I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize the heroes and the heroines much more than they are characterized in Grimm. I like the psychological flatness of them, the fact that they're more like masks than individuals.

  Philip Pullman

  Hero, Stories, Done

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that.

  Philip Pullman

  Dark, Thinking, Long

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.

  Gabriel Kolko

  Military, Mean, Winning

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You're talking to a modern, nice, affable German person and they're saying to you something like 'You know, vell, it's a critical time now for Germany within Europe, also globally, economically ve are pretty good, ve have been better. But ve are very vibrant in the theater and arts...' and all the time you'll be listening to this, you're thinking Mmm, yeah, mmm... Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Art, Nice

  "Dylan Moran: Like, Totally". Video, December 2006.

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• Everything you use in a modern life style has to be made using a tool of some sort.

  Paul Harvey

  Style, Modern Life, Tools

  Source: www.azom.com

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• It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

  George Harrison

  Past, Thinking, Looks

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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