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The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause  (Modern Quotes) The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage, in a word to stock exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy  (Modern Quotes) In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books  (Modern Quotes) The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie  (Modern Quotes) Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority  (Modern Quotes) Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values  (Modern Quotes) You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... You are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son  (Modern Quotes) The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality  (Modern Quotes) I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature  (Modern Quotes) It's like, if you - people of a certain age - would make some effort to just stay in touch with sort of basic, modern day events, then your kids wouldn't have to take these drastic measures  (Modern Quotes) He died a modern death, in hospital,...... after medical science had prolonged his life to a point where the terms on which it was being offered were unimpressive  (Modern Quotes) Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor cycle and the standing lunch  (Modern Quotes) Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro  (Modern Quotes) Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once  (Modern Quotes) Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results  (Modern Quotes) The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means  (Modern Quotes) Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better  (Modern Quotes) The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did  (Modern Quotes) The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics don't make anybody long lived or useful  (Modern Quotes) The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit  (Modern Quotes) Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea  (Modern Quotes) Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them  (Modern Quotes) Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long  (Modern Quotes) It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation  (Modern Quotes) Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it  (Modern Quotes) Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first  (Modern Quotes) The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face  (Modern Quotes) Sedgwick has managed to convert pedestrian critical skills and little discernible knowledge in history, philosophy, psychology, art or even pre - modern literature into a lucrative academic career  (Modern Quotes) In science, read, by preference the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classics are always modern  (Modern Quotes) Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things  (Modern Quotes)
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