Modern Quotes - Page 40

• In a sense, I never got over Robert Lowell's History. A flawed, infinitely brilliant project I never tire of going back to. It's a modern Inferno, where Lowell plays both Dante and Virgil, guiding us through dozens of illuminating, bitter episodes from human history, all the while managing to hold a mirror to our confused hominid face as it squints at eternity and fails to grasp any of it.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Confused, Mirrors, Play

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you look on the Republican side, the two Republicans who have most energized young people in modern times are Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul.

  Ted Cruz

  Two, People, Looks

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• If I remember correctly, the most efficient campaign in modern times, in terms of burn rate, had been Obama's 2012 reelect, which I believe the number was they spent 37 cents at every dollar.

  Ted Cruz

  Believe, Numbers, Dollars

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• What can you do? [Bernie] Sanders, as a Jewish man: What could Pharaoh do to extend his time, and stop the plagues from coming on Egypt? This is the modern "Egypt", Mr. Sanders. Let the Black man go and give us justice, and these things that are whipping you today will start diminishing, and you will get a longer period of time.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Men, Egypt, Giving

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• People at all levels and in all roles in organizations are wrestling with the challenges of modern life, trying to find ways to create harmony among the different parts of their lives while aiming to achieve their goals and live with purpose.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Wrestling, Organization, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Everybody is so goddamn sure of themselves, it just makes you realize this is the curse of the modern world.

  Scott McClanahan

  World, Realizing, Curse

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• There are guys I admire. Like Jimmy Stewart and - a more modern example - Tom Hanks. They managed to do it and have a really high standard for their work, but at the same time they remained incredibly classy and well-regarded personally throughout the process, which I thought was rare and kind of cool. And I'm trying. I try. I haven't thrown any TVs out the hotel window yet.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Guy, Trying, Example

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For most of the rise of modern medicine, the brain was a really unknown zone and was all based in guesswork. Well, that's all changing. And the opioid recovery is a very good example of the scale of change we're seeing.

  Newt Gingrich

  Recovery, Medicine, Brain

  "Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction - The KHN Conversation". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

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• Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Long, Promise

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.77, 谷月社

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• We live in a very modern age and the dynamic of raising kids and being a professional are intersecting a lot more - especially for women.

  John Krasinski

  Kids, Age, Raising Kids

  "John Krasinski Will Take a Photo with You, but Here's Where He Draws the Line". Interview with Mehera Bonner, www.marieclaire.com. August 24, 2016.

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• Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.

  John Dewey

  Cities, Ideas, Immature

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends makes a society; the village or street group of playmates is a community; each business group, each club, is another.

  John Dewey

  Community, Groups, Village

  John Dewey (0101). “Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.20, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and forms of government or control, than existed in an entire continent at an earlier epoch.

  John Dewey

  Cities, Government, Community

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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• I guess you could say Alexander the Great was a man who completely transported me and moved me and inspired me because of his idealism, and I'd go back to the Greeks, and I always liked Homer and all the philosophers and their way of thinking and their concept of honor. I think their concept of honor does apply to the modern age, and certain people that walk around are pre-Christian.

  Oliver Stone

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Museum of Modern Art doesn't have anything to do with what I do. Probably has made some differences in my sales, I wouldn't be surprised. Again, you have to ask other people, because I don't have a measuring device.

  Garry Winogrand

  Art, Differences, Museums

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• In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter.

  Vladimir Putin

  Running, Military, Law

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• I want everyone to know that Russia in general and the Russian leadership, it is something effective and properly functioning. That the country itself, its institutions, leaders are represented by healthy, capable people who are ready for cooperation with our partners in every single area: sports, politics, fight against modern threats. I have nothing but a positive feeling about it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Sports, Country, Fighting

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• I think that a person cannot be criminally or otherwise prosecuted, his or her rights cannot be infringed upon the grounds of nationality, ethnicity or sexual orientation in the modern world. It is absolutely unacceptable. And it is not the case in Russia.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Russia, Rights

  Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.

  Vladimir Putin

  Reality, World, Demand

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• Only a developed society, for example, only a strong democratic system in modern conditions can create a climate in which any manifestation of terrorism is unacceptable and can also make the state itself stronger.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, Climate, Example

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• When you talk about modern comedy I think there's a big three right now, and that's Louis C.K., Bill Burr, and Jim Jefferies. I don't think anyone's doing it better than those three guys.

  Brad Williams

  Thinking, Guy, Three

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• That is one of the benefits. It's called "jobs for our country" which we desperately need. As we expand our Navy toward the goal of 350 ships, we will also procure additional modern destroyers that are designed to handle the missile defense mission in the coming years.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Years

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It has been so in the time that preceded the fall of the Roman Empire, when Augustine of Hippo delineated the features of a new spiritual civilization; in the age of religious wars, when Descartes and Hobbes established the principles of modern science and politics; and at the turn of the French Revolution, interpreted by Kant and Hegel as an event destined to change the history of the world.

  Roberto Esposito

  Spiritual, Religious, Philosophy

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• Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.

  Anthony Standen

  Nature, Science, Survival

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• In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.

  Peter Boghossian

  Thinking, Views, People

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