Modern Quotes - Page 27

• Modern 'public health' initiatives have moved well beyond what could reasonably be classified as public goods. Today, government undertakes all sorts of policies in the name of public health that are aimed at regulating personal behavior.

  Radley Balko

  Government, Names, Today

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• The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the rich would have disastrous effects, not just for the rich but for the poor and middle classes themselves. For it is the rich who provide a proportionately greater amount of saving, investment capital, entrepreneurial foresight, and financing of technological innovation that has brought the Unites States to by far the highest standard of living - for the mass of the people - of any country in history.

  Murray Rothbard

  Country, Class, People

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• Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

  David Horowitz

  Research, Fields, Pursuit

  David Horowitz (2013). “The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America”, p.1916, Regnery Publishing

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• The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

  John Leo

  Race, Gender, Obsessed

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• For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.

  George W. Bush

  Japan, America, Alliances

  "Stupidity is not a resignable offense" by Mark Shields, www.cnn.com. March 17, 2003.

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• The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.

  Richard Posner

  Light, Punishment, Fake

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• I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Civilization, Community

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• Walking with someone through grief, or through the process of reconciliation, requires patience, presence, and a willingness to wander, to take the scenic route. But the modern-day church doesn't like to wander or wait. The modern-day church likes results. Convinced the gospel is a product we've got to sell to an increasingly shrinking market, we like our people to function as walking advertisements: happy, put-together, finished - proof that this Jesus stuff WORKS!

  Rachel Held Evans

  Jesus, Grief, People

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.208, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

  Kenny Werner

  Definitions, Used, Traditional

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Light, Soul

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.334, New World Library

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• Somebody must have sense enough to meet hate with love. Somebody must have sense enough to meet physical force with soul force. If we will but try this way, we will be able to change these conditions and yet at the same time win the hearts and souls of those who have kept these conditions alive a way as old as the insights of Jesus of Nazareth, as modern as the techniques of Mohandas K. Gandhi. There is another way.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Hate, Heart

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• The modern masters promise very little

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Promise, Littles, Masters

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.73, DOSER Reads

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• We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Variables, Structure

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• Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real world, you uncover an opportunity, and then you compare other opportunities with that. And you only invest in the most attractive opportunities. That's your opportunity cost. That's what you learn in freshman economics. The game hasn't changed at all. That's why Modern Portfolio Theory is so asinine.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Opportunity, Years

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• I want to shout out the stars on the walk of fame because they said something about they're not going to put my girl on the Walk of Fame because she's a reality star. It's like, people are so so dated and not modern. There's no way that Kim Kardashian should not have a star on the Walk of Fame. It's ridiculous concepts. I'm just going to give y'all the truth and you're just going to love it.

  Kanye West

  Girl, Stars, Reality

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• Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

  Vaclav Havel

  Thrones, Sole, Vacant

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• There is no longer a Christian mind ... the modern Christian has succumbed to secularization. He accepts religion - its morality, its worship, its spiritual culture; but he rejects the religious view of life, the view which sets all earthly issues within the context of the eternal, the view which relates all human problems social, political, cultural to the doctrinal foundations of the Christian Faith, the view which sees all things here below in terms of God's supremacy and earth's transitoriness, in terms of Heaven and Hell.

  Harry Blamires

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.

  Herbert Hoover

  Discovery, Civilization, Soil

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• Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one of the big problems of Africa in the modern world. Our problem is just this: how to get the benefits of European society - benefits that have been brought about by an organization based upon the individual - and yet retain African's own structure of society in which the individual is a member of a kind of fellowship.

  Julius Nyerere

  Civilization, Organization, Benefits

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• Fleeing persecution is not a crime. And we do not seek to pander to a noisy, tiny minority who will never embrace modern multicultural Australia. But there are important truths we must face. There is a history and a reality that we cannot ignore. The challenge before us is real, the questions we grapple with as elemental as life and death.

  Bill Shorten

  Real, Australia, Life And Death

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• The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

  Barry Commoner

  Apprentice

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• In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.

  Terence McKenna

  Animal, Keys, Psychology

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• Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only as vulnerable beings in need of love and care but as a moral touchstone amidst the complexity and contentiousness of modern life.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Important, Needs

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.

  Terence McKenna

  Animal, Mind, Depth

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• I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.

  Terence McKenna

  Use, Neurosis, Unhappiness

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