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• Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.

  H. L. Mencken

  Jesus, Odds, America

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• The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are read by our most esteemed critics and poets (who don't usually like them much) and nobody else takes any notice. An increasing number of highly literate people simply ignore what the 'Highbrows' are doing. It says nothing to them. The Highbrows in return ignore and insult them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Race, Numbers, America

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.276, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth century thought.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, America, World

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• The latest report says the results of an investigation will be released in three or four weeks. That's a long time for fruit flies and the press.

  Denis Boyles

  Fruit Flies, America, Long

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• Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  America, World, Modern

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• If you say 'Good Morning' in America and it's five past twelve you end up with a lawsuit.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Morning, Past, America

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• In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Growing Up, Life Changing

  MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

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• Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

  Ai Weiwei

  Freedom Of Speech, World, Modern

  "Ai Weiwei, Nursing Head Wound, Sharpens Criticism: Review" by Catherine Hickley, Bloomberg.com, October 14, 2009.

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• By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful, but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine outselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant

  Os Guinness

  Irrelevance, Effort, Faithful

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• Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.

  Patience Strong

  Heart, Relax, World

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• [The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Men, Omnipotence

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• The truth for women living in a modern world is that they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into birth if they want their birth to be natural. Making choices of where and with whom to birth is not the same as bringing knowledge and skills into your birth regardless of where and with whom you birth.

  Michel Odent

  Responsibility, Skills, Choices

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• It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a dazzling experience - well, not always, of course, but in actual fact, it is our less successful love affairs that enable us to appreciate the others. I think love protects us from one of the biggest problems facing the modern world: boredom.

  François Lelord

  Adventure, Successful, Thinking

  François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.23, Gallic Books

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• If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Silence, World, Modern

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• All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long circle back toward their former coherence. Whether they can arrive before the natural world is damaged beyond repair and madness destroys humanity, we cannot tell.

  Paul Shepard

  Art, Philosophy, Exercise

  Paul Shepard (2013). “Coming Home to the Pleistocene”, p.170, Island Press

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• The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

  Bill Gaede

  World, Modern, Priests

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• A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Political, Doctrine, World

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2003). “A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century”, p.162, Routledge

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• The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to turn our lives upside down and inside out are part of God's redemptive plan, not only for us, but for the world in which we live. God may be preparing a great awakening for the world, if God can find enough people to cooperate in this mysterious plan.

  Thomas Keating

  Lying, People, Events

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• "Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the mighty. There were at least three uncannily accurate Margaret Thatchers, their eyelids fatigued with condescension and their voices swooping and whining like dive-bombers.

  Clive James

  Voice, America, Giving

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!

  Tony Blair

  Ideas, America, Google

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• San Francisco is the only city in America where marijuana is legal but plastic bags are not.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, San Francisco, America

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• How many of y'all wondered, like I did, during the LA riots when those people were being pulled out of their trucks and beaten half to death - step on the f***ing gas, man! They're on foot, you're in a truck - I think I see a way out of this.

  Bill Hicks

  Men, Thinking, Feet

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• Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate to feel something, anything, that we keep falling into each other and f*****g our way toward the end of days.

  M.I.A.

  Fall, America, Civilization

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• Your DVD collection is organized, and so is your walk-in closet. Your car is clean and vacuumed, your frequently dialed numbers are programmed into your cordless phone, your telephone plan is suited to your needs, and your various gizmos interact without conflict. Your spouse is athletic, your kids are bright, your job is rewarding, your promotions are inevitable, everywhere you need to be comes with its own accessible parking. You look great in casual slacks.

  David Brooks

  Jobs, Kids, Phones

  David Brooks (2004). “On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or that the whole idea of evolution is a conspiracy of godless scientists. Almost all of these people can vote and some of them have got guns.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Gun, Land

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