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The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health Picture Quote #1

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind’s eye through infinite time and the mind’s hand into boundless space Picture Quote #1

This, I believe, is how the villain in modern fiction is born: a creature without compassion, without empathy Picture Quote #1

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience Picture Quote #1

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power Picture Quote #1

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals Picture Quote #1

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Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual Picture Quote #1

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life Picture Quote #1

We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination Picture Quote #1

The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed Picture Quote #1

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! Picture Quote #1

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas Picture Quote #1

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A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued Picture Quote #1

I carry a magnum size condom in my purse like a modern day glass slipper. Some day my prince will come Picture Quote #1

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers Picture Quote #1

Music is a gut thing. You’re working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There’s a congregation Picture Quote #1

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity Picture Quote #1

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest Picture Quote #1

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I don’t think environmentalists have the slightest reason to be concerned about globalization because every time you move a plant to a new place you upgrade the neighborhood. You put in global standards. You put in modern plants. And all the plants around it get improved Picture Quote #1

I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing this novel I became very familiar with the various movements in American Modern Art from 1900 onwards Picture Quote #1

I have no doubt that in the future, wearable devices like Fitbit will know my blood pressure, hydration levels and blood sugar levels as well. All of this data has the potential to transform modern medicine and create a whole new era of personalized care Picture Quote #1

If somebody says ‘singer-songwriter’ to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me Picture Quote #1

We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents Picture Quote #1

Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split Picture Quote #1

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Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for ‘machines’ are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren’t enough of those jobs Picture Quote #1

Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community Picture Quote #1

I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchys sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, The Artist is Present, in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress Picture Quote #1

Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex Picture Quote #1

All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development Picture Quote #1

We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear Picture Quote #1

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The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health (Modern Quotes) Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind’s eye through infinite time and the mind’s hand into boundless space (Modern Quotes) This, I believe, is how the villain in modern fiction is born: a creature without compassion, without empathy (Modern Quotes) No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience (Modern Quotes) The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power (Modern Quotes) Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals (Modern Quotes) Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual (Modern Quotes) Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life (Modern Quotes) We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination (Modern Quotes) The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed (Modern Quotes) The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! (Modern Quotes) In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas (Modern Quotes) A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued (Modern Quotes) I carry a magnum size condom in my purse like a modern day glass slipper. Some day my prince will come (Modern Quotes) Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers (Modern Quotes) Music is a gut thing. You’re working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There’s a congregation (Modern Quotes) Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity (Modern Quotes) The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest (Modern Quotes) I don’t think environmentalists have the slightest reason to be concerned about globalization because every time you move a plant to a new place you upgrade the neighborhood. You put in global standards. You put in modern plants. And all the plants around it get improved (Modern Quotes) I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing this novel I became very familiar with the various movements in American Modern Art from 1900 onwards (Modern Quotes) I have no doubt that in the future, wearable devices like Fitbit will know my blood pressure, hydration levels and blood sugar levels as well. All of this data has the potential to transform modern medicine and create a whole new era of personalized care (Modern Quotes) If somebody says ‘singer-songwriter’ to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me (Modern Quotes) We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents (Modern Quotes) Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split (Modern Quotes) Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for ‘machines’ are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren’t enough of those jobs (Modern Quotes) Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community (Modern Quotes) I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchys sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, The Artist is Present, in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress (Modern Quotes) Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex (Modern Quotes) All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development (Modern Quotes) We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear (Modern Quotes)

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