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• All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

  John Adams

  Christian, Men, Dignity

  John Adams (1841). “Letters, Addressed to His Wife”, p.277

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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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• It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Mistake, People, Political

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

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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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• The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

  Morarji Desai

  Movement, Vegetarian, Ancient

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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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 get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays.

  Graham Greene

  Writing, Play, People

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.37, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

  Lord Byron

  Vanity, May, Example

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.22, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

  Henry Miller

  New York, Sky, Cities

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• Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who have been very little influenced by social systems, have always responded instinctively to latent assumptions about the shape of the universe. The incomprehensibility of our new cosmos seems to me, ultimately, to be the reason for the chaos of modern art.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Shapes, Littles

  "Civilisation" by Kenneth Clark, (Ch. 13), 1969.

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• Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Artist, Space

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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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• It has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself -- a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper.

  William Morris

  Work, Littles, Matter

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.6349, Delphi Classics

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• In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.

  Kevin Kelly

  School, Self, Entrepreneur

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• If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.

  Paul Johnson

  Religious, Believe, Political

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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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• To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of locomotion in the congested traffic of a modern community. It is about time to abandon judicial somnambulism.

  Jerome Frank

  Sleep, Community, May

  Jerome Frank (1930). “Law and the Modern Mind”, p.171, Transaction Publishers

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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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• You know what amazes me about UFO's? They never land at the White House. They always land at laramie, Wyoming. Thiry miles out, where they're seen by one farmer.

  Larry King

  Land, White, Wyoming

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• The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

  James Thurber

  Generations, Modern Life, Trouble

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