Modern Quotes - Page 34

• I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

  Shane Smith

  Thinking, Age, Looks

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• All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.

  Neil Peart

  Honesty, Machinery, Hearted

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• Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

  Thomas More

  Running, Caring, Roots

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• Because the people of New Hampshire take their responsibilities as citizens of the Republic seriously, they keep it interesting for candidates who, believe it or not, can get a little tired of the mannered, predictable, and unimaginative qualities that typically afflict modern political campaigns.

  John McCain

  Believe, Tired, Responsibility

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• I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  Ideas, Historical, World

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• The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, World, Way

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• True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.

  Phil Cousineau

  Ancient, Myth, Stop Time

  Phil Cousineau (2003). “Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Our Lives”, p.19, Conari Press

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• If the six-nation forums dealing with Iran and North Korea suffer comparable failures, the consequence will be a world of unchecked proliferation, not controlled by either governing principles or functioning institutions. A modern, strong, peaceful Iran could become a pillar of stability and progress in the region. This cannot happen unless Iran's leaders decide whether they are representing a cause or a nation - whether their basic motivation is crusading or international cooperation. The goal of the diplomacy of the Six should be to oblige Iran to confront this choice.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Strong, Motivation, Korea

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• There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Dumb, Dumb Things, Reason

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.64, Pan Macmillan

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• The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Government, Ancient

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.963, Delphi Classics

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• Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

  David Chilton

  Dog, Theologian, Packs

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• A great unification is now taking place between science and spirituality. The most advanced discoveries of modern science are rising to reaffirm the timeless wisdom of the great religious and spiritual traditions of every culture.

  John Hagelin

  Spiritual, Religious, Discovery

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be treated the same, when it comes to the moment of excretion, even the most modern society - especially the most modern society - segregates two restrooms with little icons outside the doors, one wearing a dress, one wearing pants.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Men, Doors, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

  Adam McKay

  Banking, Essentials, Finance

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Turkey is viewed as a very modern country and a great place to go and visit and yet Islamic as well. Iran is in some ways like that... with the difference that Iran is probably more influential than Turkey in affairs that are of interest to us.

  Hooman Majd

  Country, Islamic, Iran

  "US-Iran Relations in the Age of the Ayatollah". Interview with Jon Letman, mronline.org. October 4, 2010.

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• I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.

  Marc Almond

  Past, Thinking, Old Things

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.

  Tim Hecker

  World, Online, Persons

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I have always been obsessed by the company and making sure that the company is the most contemporary, the most modern of all the players, and delivering the most accurate service for our client.

  Maurice Levy

  Player, Clients, Obsessed

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

  M.I.A.

  Rap, Thinking, Today

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think we all try to figure out ways to ignore the fact that life is about suffering. In the modern world, that's what we're surrounded with. We have all these little tools, such as phones and the Internet, to help us forget about suffering. Whenever you are tired, you don't have to really sit in the abyss of what it means to be alive. We always find ways to avoid it. When a ship sinks, you are sitting in it. There is no way to avoid.

  Matt de la Pena

  Tired, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The modern wars are also omnipresent in our electronic media - to be cynical about it, we now have 24 hours of non-stop bloodshed available to us. The internet and real-time media reporting were integrated into daily life in Iraq.

  Dave Abrams

  Real, War, Media

  Source: therumpus.net

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• By 1975 - and continuing to today - all Americans came to believe that they had a "right" to a safe, clean, healthy environment. When I grew up, no one seriously criticized the steel mills and paper mills for the deadly stench they produced - that was the smell of prosperity. In the modern society, no one would tolerate such conditions in an American city.

  Denis Hayes

  Believe, Cities, Smell

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• There is part of me that longs to have the back-to-the-earth life - make my own bread, grow my own wheat, just be really self-sufficient - but I am not, at the moment, willing to give up the luxury of modern life, and amazing schools for my kids, and things that I've come to rely on that are parts of society.

  Lauren Groff

  Giving Up, School, Kids

  "Bit And Peace: Lauren Groff’s Arcadia". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2012.

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• As people who are women, who are Indigenous and live on Indigenous lands, we know, and this is something I understand the older I get, that they don't visit the same way the postman may visit but they do visit. They visit in ways that our modern society often disregards and considers immaterial or unreal.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Land, People, May

  "The Rumpus Interview With Sandra Cisneros". Interview with Olivia, therumpus.net. January 13, 2016.

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