Modern World Quotes - Page 15

• If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

  Mark Twain

  Years, America, World

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• Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!

  Steven Van Zandt

  Real, Kids, Rocks

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• Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

  Helen Fisher

  World, Modern, Turns

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• I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.

  Iris Apfel

  Connections, Looks, Use

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

  Arsene Wenger

  Doe, Looks, World

  "ARSENE WENGER INTERVIEW: The full transcript of Martin Samuel's fascinating meeting with the Arsenal manager - part I". Interview with Martin Samuel, www.dailymail.co.uk. August 24, 2009.

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• The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

  Alan Watts

  Ideas, World, Incredibles

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared, but accepted and controlled. Radiation is dangerous, let there be no mistake about that-but the modern world abounds in dangerous substances and situations too numerous to mention. ... Consider radiation as something to be treated with respect, avoided when practicable, and accepted when inevitable.

  Ralph Lapp

  Hate, Mistake, Long

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• Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Success, Wisdom, World

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.11, Beacon Press

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• The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

  William Ralph Inge

  Education, Class, Half

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated over several centuries, which offered a new concept of social order, encompassing freedom in the only form suited to the modern world. Step by step, in practice and theory, the various sectors of human activity were withdrawn from the jurisdiction of coercive authority and given over to the voluntary action of self-regulating society.

  Ralph Raico

  Philosophy, Self, Order

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• I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

  Earl Warren

  Sports, Fear, Failure

  "The Norton Book of Sports". Book by George Plimpton, p. 470, 1992.

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• For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.

  Andrew Weil

  Exercise, Meditation, World

  "Breathwalking: A Meditative Exercise" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2013.

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• There are some things I don't like, about which I think, well, that's me. But coriander is a giant hoax perpetrated by a perverted society.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, America, Giants

  "This much I know". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2005.

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• I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods.

  Jeremy Paxman

  America, World, Reputation

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• Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.

  James W. Loewen

  Race, Land, Two

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.72, The New Press

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• In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Reality, Class, World

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• But they're laughing at you. They're not laughing with you.

  Terry Wogan

  Laughter, America, Laughing

  "Beset by Lizards" by Jon Ronson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!

  Caryll Houselander

  Ideas, Heaven, World

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• The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

  David Berlinski

  Education, Firsts, Stories

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• There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people and so many airplanes. This is an extraordinary airport. . . it could be classed as one of the wonders of the modern world.

  John F. Kennedy

  Airplane, Airports, People

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• I notice that the number of cosmetic-surgery operations has risen by 34 per cent in the past year. Once we subtract Jordan, Jodie Marsh and Michael Jackson from those figures, we can see that demand overall may have stabilised.

  Michael Gove

  Past, Years, Numbers

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• Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.

  Shirley Temple

  Garbage Cans, World, Censorship

  "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler, February 23, 2001.

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• Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings, are living in a dream world. Such persons are, in a very real sense, not sane.

  Gerald Holton

  Dream, Real, Facts

  Gerald James Holton (1988). “Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein”, p.464, Harvard University Press

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• US special forces are closing in on Saddam Hussain but they're afraid to go in. He's hiding out in Tony Martin's farmhouse.

  Patrick Kielty

  America, Special, Hussain

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• We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases.

  Patrick Hayden

  America, Nuts, Tolerance

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