Modern Quotes - Page 21

• A lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That's applicable to Newton as it is to any other religious smart person

  Neal Stephenson

  Religious, Smart, People

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• The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Order, Mind

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, Past, Reality

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• Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens.

  Robert W. Sarnoff

  Hands, Common Sense, Spurs

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• The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Pursuit Of Happiness, World, Misery

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.144, Regent College Publishing

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• Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

  Noam Chomsky

  China, Admirable

  "The Legitimacy of Violence as a Political Act?". Noam Chomsky during Debates with Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag, chomsky.info. December 15, 1967.

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• [Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number of sizes.] Thus Cantor's Absolute is a perfect image for what we experience of God. When I speak of a Big Enough God I am not merely thinking of an Infinite God, but the God of infinities, the Absolute, which either chooses to reveal itself or remains veiled in mystery. Modern mathematics does begin to feel like the language that God talks.

  Sara Maitland

  Thinking, Numbers, Perfect

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• Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library then I have yet to hear of it.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, School, Winning

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• Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.

  Dan Wakefield

  Sports, Team, War

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• I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

  Bertrand Russell

  Lying, Done, World

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.3, Psychology Press

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• Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

  Jill Ker Conway

  Fiction, Form, Reader

  Jill Ker Conway (2011). “When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography”, p.3, Vintage

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• In my opinion, the greatest misconception about the market is the idea that if you buy and hold stocks for long periods of time, you'll always make money. Let me give you some specific examples. Anyone who bought the stock market at any time between the 1896 low and the 1932 low would have lost money. In other words, there's a 36 year period in which a buy-and-hold strategy would have lost money. As a more modern example, anyone who bought the market at any time between the 1962 low and the 1974 low would have lost money.

  Victor Sperandeo

  Ideas, Years, Long

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• Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age.

  Robert Bryce

  Wind, Age, Scams

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• Above all, documentary must reflect the problems and realities of the present. It cannot regret the past; it is dangerous to prophesy the future. It can, and does, draw on the past in its use of existing heritages but it only does so to give point to a modern argument. In no sense is documentary a historical reconstruction and attempts to make it so are destined to failure. Rather it is contemporary fact and event expressed in relation to human associations.

  Paul Rotha

  Regret, Past, Reality

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• The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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• For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Father, Agriculture, Civilization

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

  Gordon Brown

  Management, Economic, Framework

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• Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

  Pete Seeger

  Men, Average, Firsts

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• It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspired, Achieve, Results

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel”, p.96, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

  Bertrand Russell

  Exercise, Principles, Modern Life

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• Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

  Bertrand Russell

  Church, Public Opinion, Certain

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.80, Routledge

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• Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters,
  it's not real unless it's on the tube.

  Ed Rollins

  Real, Television, Voters

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• Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today.

  Charles Simic

  Today, Literature, Influence

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• Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all ages necessarily constituted one of the chief practical interests of mankind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Political, Age, Enquiry

  John Stuart Mill (1866). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.1

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• With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle. ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato.

  Karl Popper

  Plato, Political, Enemy

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