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To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be  (Modern Quotes) Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people  (Modern Quotes) I really like the bohemian look, and I’m a great fan of mixing vintage and modern  (Modern Quotes) Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us  (Modern Quotes) The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world  (Modern Quotes) The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It’s almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?  (Modern Quotes) It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue  (Modern Quotes) The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar  (Modern Quotes) Modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation  (Modern Quotes) The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith  (Modern Quotes) Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists  (Modern Quotes) The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?  (Modern Quotes) There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce  (Modern Quotes) Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan  (Modern Quotes) Whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war  (Modern Quotes) It is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers  (Modern Quotes) You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world  (Modern Quotes) A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth  (Modern Quotes) Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet  (Modern Quotes) ... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new  (Modern Quotes) Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power  (Modern Quotes) The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet’s wife cannot understand it  (Modern Quotes) Anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher  (Modern Quotes) Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much  (Modern Quotes) We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond  (Modern Quotes) Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women  (Modern Quotes) Anybody who loves country music loves gospel. Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with. We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people  (Modern Quotes) There is a tremendous problem in modern culture. We have become used to everything coming to us with tremendous speed and ease. It is a culture where discipline and patience is almost impossible to develop  (Modern Quotes) The three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives. 3. Men who wear gold chains give gold rings  (Modern Quotes) The modern tribalism of the left demands that each person choose a group and then agree with everything that group agrees with. And anybody who leaves that group is stoned to death  (Modern Quotes)
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