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• The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the remaking of the world is a free motherhood.

  Margaret Sanger

  Sex, Motherhood, Important

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.1, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody.

  E. J. W. Barber

  Military, Reading, Writing

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• Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies in Morocco or Shanghai travels instantly, thanks to modern means of communication, to all Eastern peoples and fills them with enthusiasm and faith. This phenomenon is, of course, unprecedented in the history of man.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Communication, Mean, Army

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• The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table, ... the collection is so tantalizingly incomplete, and the specimens themselves often so fragmented and inconclusive, that more can be said about what is missing than about what is present. ...but ever since Darwin's work inspired the notion that fossils linking modern man and extinct ancestor would provide the most convincing proof of human evolution, preconceptions have led evidence by the nose in the study of fossil man.

  John Reader

  Men, Convincing Evidence, Missing

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• It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice whatsoever in the work process and were viewed not as human beings but as alienated forms of individual wealth. Slavery, in this sense, did not die; it continues in modern dress in contemporary organizations wherever managers exercise autocratic power, unequal status, or arbitrary privileges, no matter how scientific the terminology or postmodern the image

  Kenneth Cloke

  Exercise, Organization, Voice

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• Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

  Jacob Braude

  Modern Life, Use, Antiques

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• The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.

  Jacob Braude

  Jobs, Men, Giving

  Jacob Morton Braude (1966). “Speaker's desk book of quips, quotes, & anecdotes”

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• It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young, Canon Brookes, William Bolitho, and Harold Eaton--have not devoted more space to the Greene tragedy; for here, surely, is one of the outstanding murder mysteries of modern times--a case practically unique in the annals of latter-day crime.

  S. S. Van Dine

  Book, Unique, Men

  S.S. Van Dine (1956). “The Greene Murder Case”

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• I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things

  Albert Einstein

  Two, Soul, Body

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.152, Princeton University Press

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• ... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral, and religious rule over the animal; or the animal propensities of our nature predominate over the intellectual and moral. The spider elaborates poison from the same flower, in which the bee finds materials out of which she manufactures honey.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Religious, Flower, Animal

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• We can paint unrealistic pictures of the juggler--displaying her now as a problem-free paragon of glamour and now as a modern hag.Or we can see in the juggler a real person who strives to overcome the obstacles that nature and society put in her path and who does so with vigor and determination.

  Faye J Crosby

  Determination, Real, Path

  Faye J. Crosby (1991). “Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families”, Free Pr

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• The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern.  But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well.

  Ken Wilber

  Vision, World, Demand

  Ken Wilber (2001). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.

  William Wickenden

  Faith, Men, Essence

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• The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.

  Richard Asher

  Greek, Describing

  British Medical Journal 2: 359 (1959)

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• The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.

  Leopold Sedar Senghor

  Europe, Black, Culture

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• One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods is the deliberation with which Archimedes approaches the solution of any one of his main problems.

  Thomas Little Heath

  Problem, Method, Deliberation

  Archimedes, Sir Thomas Little Heath (2002). “The Works of Archimedes”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.

  Louis J. Mordell

  Swimming, Men, Boards

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• There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the rules in accordance with which decent men have had to shape their lives from the beginning .. fundamental precepts, put forth in the Bible and embodied consciously or unconsciously in the code of morals of every great and successful nation from antiquity to modern times.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Successful, Men, Patents

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• If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.

  Ricardo Semler

  Thinking, Organization, Tools

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• There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Love, Relationship, Truth

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• Our common goal should be the development of a system of equal security for all governments. System adequate [to deal with] modern threats, built on regional and global nonaligned bases. Only then can we ensure peace and tranquility in the world.

  Vladimir Putin

  Peace, Government, Goal

  "Putin Puts On Vast Victory Day Parade in Moscow" by Thomas Grove, www.wsj.com. May 9, 2015.

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• Full of wise saws and modern instances.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Saws, You Like It

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Mother, Women, Sea

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• The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.

  Alan Watts

  Soul, Body, Language

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• The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

  Umberto Eco

  Age, Enlightenment, Reason

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