Modern Quotes - Page 26

• Modern man has lost any sense of God's nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has ever brought into being, whether a created object or historical event.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Historical, Events

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• I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.

  David Suchet

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Design, Painting, Abstract

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• Justice demands that the good and hard-working be rewarded and the evil and the lazy be punished (if only by the withholding of the rewards of doing the right things). Modern Liberalism demands that the good and hardworking be punished as the recipients of an unfair advantage and the evil and the lazy be rewarded, their acts of evil and their failure all the proof the Modern Liberal needs that somehow they have been victimized by forces out of their control.

  Evan Sayet

  Hard Work, Evil, Justice

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• The modern day soup line is a check in the mail.

  David I. Rozenberg

  Lines, Soup, Mail

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• We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.

  Ennio Morricone

  Musical, Style, World

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• I would love to take an old space and restore it to exactly the way I want it. Like an old factory, just something with great bones and lots of character. I'd take an old house and flip it into something very modern inside, or the other way around.

  Jason Wu

  Character, Space, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

  Rob James-Collier

  Modern Day

  "'Downton Abbey's Rob James-Collier On His Tragic Hero Thomas Barrow, Dancing With Dame Maggie Smith And Waiting For The Next Role". Interview with Caroline Frost, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. November 18, 2015.

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• Hundreds of scientists from around the world are gathering in Washington, D.C. for what some say could be a historic meeting. They are attending an international summit to debate one of the most controversial subjects in modern science , editing human DNA.

  Linda Wertheimer

  Editing, Dna, World

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Precisely because the State has the monopoly of coercion it can be allowed the monopoly only of coercion. Only if the modern State can be held within a strictly limited agency of duties and powers can it be prevented from regimenting, conquering, and ultimately devouring the society which gave it birth.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Agency, Coercion, Birth

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• Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

  Charlie Munger

  Portfolios, Beta, Theory

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• The Internet bubble circa 2000 is the most extreme in modern capitalism. In the 1930s, we had the worst depression in 600 years. Today is almost as extreme in the opposite way.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Opposites, Today

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• The theory of modern education is that you need a general education before you specialize. And I think to some extent, before you're going to be a great stock picker, you need some general education.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Needs, Theory

  "Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor". Book by Tren Griffin, September 15, 2015.

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• The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.

  Charlie Munger

  Civilization, Interesting, Energy

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• Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Men, Afternoon, Evening

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• The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Data, Age

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• It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

  Zig Ziglar

  Believe, Vocabulary, Might

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• Military and absolutist regimes are undoubtedly well fitted to get the jump on an unsuspecting or unprepared enemy; but the history of modern warfare proves that they cannot win over representative governments in the long run, provided that people behind those governments have the heart to sustain initial punishment, and both the will and the resources to fight back.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Running, Military, Heart

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1975). “History of United States Naval Operations in World War II”

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• I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the dimension of the divine; the impenetrable omnipotence of bureaucracy harbors is divine enjoyment. It is the performance of its very purposelessness that generates an intense enjoyment, ready to reproduce itself forever.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Men, Thinking, Omnipotence

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• The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.

  Arundhati Roy

  Independent, Mean, Profound

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• The concept of freedom in Scripture differs from modern notions. Freedom is not a life lived free of restraints but a life that recognizes healthy limits, those that are concern to produce prosperity and order for the person who observes them.

  Max Anders

  Order, Healthy, Limits

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• The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.

  Philip Yancey

  Meaningful, Community, Independence

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• The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.

  Matt Chandler

  Light, Choices, Feel Good

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• Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school.

  Steve Sailer

  Football, Revenge, School

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• Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.

  Joseph Sobran

  Sacrifice, Would Be, Abnormal

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