Modern Quotes - Page 27

• Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

  Matthew Kelly

  Crush, Education, Spirit

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.94, BookBaby

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• A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.

  Adam Smith

  Reality, Government, Criminals

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• The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman--or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.

  Peter Marshall

  Beautiful, Smart, Believe

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• I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.

  George Bancroft

  Jesus, Names, Pages

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• Information is the religion of the modern world.

  David Lodge

  World, Information, Modern World

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.390, Penguin

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• Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

  David Lodge

  Age, Cathedrals, Criteria

  David Lodge (1990). “Nice Work”, Penguin Group USA

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• If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Imagination, Humanity, Might

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

  Alvin Lee

  Thinking, Guitar, Vans

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• J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.

  Michael O'Brien

  Powerful, Emotional, Media

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• Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

  Amelia Earhart

  Women, Giants, Aviation

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• A great purposelessness has descended upon modern civilizations. People at large have lost any sense of the meaning and purpose of life; and without an understanding of our own purpose, there can be no true commitment. Whether that commitment is to marriage, family, study, work, God, relationships, or the simple resolutions of our lives, it will be almost impossible to fulfill without a clear and practical understanding of our purpose. Commitment and purpose go hand in hand.

  Matthew Kelly

  Commitment, Simple, Hands

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.27, BookBaby

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• The budget is forward looking growth engine and will promote transparency and integrity. It is for the common people. This budget shows where we want to take India through railways. It budget aspires for better service, speed and safety. It is an effort to create modern railways contributing towards a developed India.

  Narendra Modi

  Integrity, People, Safety

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• Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Law, Immigration, Next

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• Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Block, Cutting, Russia

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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• In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

  Paul Goodman

  Political, World, Firsts

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.127, New York Review of Books

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• We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Winning, Warfare, Waste

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

  Alan Ball

  Heart, Self, Looks

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• The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

  Robert Morgan

  Poetry Is, Watersheds, Modern Poetry

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• When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.

  Aaron Sanchez

  Teenager, Latin, New Orleans

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• I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Tragedy, Diagnosis

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• There's so many modern films where the fans take one side or the other. I'm hoping this isn't going to be like that; I'm hoping it isn't that kind of film at all. What I would love for the audience to take from it is to understand why she was so stuck in the middle and confused.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Confused, Sides, Fans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.

  Felix Adler

  Struggle, School, Diversity

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Teaching, Inspiration

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.89, Vintage

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• Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

  Francis Bacon

  Usa, Liberty, Modern Life

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• I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

  Abe Lemons

  Football, Years, Games

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