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• A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination. He firmly believed in the significance of reviving the Arab spirit and protecting the freedom of thought and the freedom of human conscience.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Beautiful, Men, Illumination

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• For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his exitence as a living being in question.

  Michel Foucault

  Animal, Men, Political

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• Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

  Michel Foucault

  Hypocrisy, Facts, Spite

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.47, Vintage

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• Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

  Albert Einstein

  Father, Physics, Modern Physics

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein's Essays in Science”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of these spirits or other types of entities. And because we've denied them, we may have opened the gates for them to manipulate us in a lot of ways.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Culture, May, Neurosis

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is us"), in our modern incapacity to live a "good-enough" life.

  Sophie Barthes

  Mean, Reality, Good Enough

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I had read the criticisms of me and my movies and they were discerning. They said that Crawford needs a new deal, and they asked if I was doomed to explore forever the emotional misfortunes of the super-sexed modern young woman. And so, to break away from the pattern, I wanted to do "The Gorgeous Hussy". Selznick laughed at me. 'You can't do a costume picture. You're too modern.' But I begged and begged and begged, and so they let me do it. I was totally miscast.

  Joan Crawford

  Emotional, Forever, Criticism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.

  Albert Einstein

  Home, Men, White

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Home, Mean

  "Drain the swamp and there will be no more mosquitoes" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2002.

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• I'm into old-time music, I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like.

  Robert Crumb

  Player, Curiosity, Dying

  "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

  Coleman Hawkins

  Thinking, Play

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• Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Age, Electricity

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Small business people have gotten us out of nearly all modern recessions - not by waiting for others to fix things or turning to government, but rather by applying leadership, inventiveness, creativity and originality.

  Oliver DeMille

  Creativity, Government, People

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• In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion, rockets to the moon, atomic energy man's need for affirmation of his biology has become that much more intense.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Moon, Men, Energy

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.

  Will Herberg

  Believe, Struggle, Men

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• I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.

  Delphine Arnault

  Art, New York, Passion

  "Delphine Arnault Rising". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. April 14, 2014.

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• Let's face it. Leftism is the political form of evil. And the left largely controls the modern West. Where, then, does that leave us all?

  Lawrence Auster

  Evil, Political, Doe

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• By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit.

  Karl Marx

  Fashion, Aristocracy, Banking

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.334, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Apparently modern financial regulators are vastly more sophisticated than we were as financial regulators 25 years ago - because we had never figured out that the key to financial stability was leaving felons in charge of the largest financial institutions in the world.

  William K. Black

  Keys, Years, Leaving

  "Too Big to Jail?". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. October 3, 2014.

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• I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many barriers, and so many divisions, so many lines and so many borderlines, basically telling you that you should be here but not here. This is my space and this is your space, and this is expressed very dramatically in architecture, we have a very kind of aggressive, almost medieval concept for architecture, which is basically keeping people out. So you get high walls, fences, and electric fences, and divisions like that.

  Kleber Mendonca Filho

  Wall, Thinking, Space

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I have an Honors Degree in Drama from the University of Alberta, but when it was done I knew a life in modern theatre was not for me. While figuring out what the hell I might do instead of theatre, I spent a couple of days on a horror film doing stunt work. I'd never been behind the camera before, and I loved everything about it. I joined the local film co-op - The Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta - because you could trade skills for experience. These indie filmmakers were making their own stuff their own way, all the time. Instant education.

  Karen Walton

  Art, Couple, Drama

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. I think it ought to be governed by the standards of how it affects the individual animals, just as we'd want to deal with institutions that deal with humans by how they affect individual humans.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Thinking, Want

  "Chew the Right Thing". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May 3, 2006.

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• Oil is essential for a modern, industrial society. It's unique, first of all, because it's the primary source, at 40 percent, of the world's entire supply of energy, and it's irreplaceable in the transportation field; it provides 98 percent of world transportation energy.

  Michael Klare

  Unique, Oil, Energy

  "The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.

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• The Internet is a modern infrastructure that plays a key role in the future of the state.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Keys, Play, Roles

  "SPIEGEL Interview with German Interior Minister: 'WikiLeaks Is Annoying, But Not a Threat'". Interview with Holger Stark and Marcel Rosenbach, www.spiegel.de. December 20, 2010.

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• I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, my space in the Museum of Modern Art is my mailbox, my mail is delivered there. Whenever I want mail, I have to go through this city to get my mail.

  Vito Acconci

  Art, Museums, Cities

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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