IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.
Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.
Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.
The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.
Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.
I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.
Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture
Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
Most parents don't worry about a daughter until she fails to show up for breakfast.
There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
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