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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities  (Modern Quotes) You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you’ve got a winning cause.  (Modern Quotes) What are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages and chiefly French, Spanish, and Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.  (Modern Quotes) The very success of the modern American family - where kids get punctually to SAT-tutoring classes, the mortgage gets paid, the second-story remodel stays on budget - surely depends on spouses’ not being in love.  (Modern Quotes) Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don’t mean that you win.  (Modern Quotes) We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that’s where our studies were and our inspiration came from.  (Modern Quotes) There is no real way to categorize McLean’s ‘American Pie’ for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.  (Modern Quotes) The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society  (Modern Quotes) The tendency of modern American women to exclaim ‘Hiiiiiiiiiiii!’ in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with it.  (Modern Quotes) Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics.  (Modern Quotes) I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it’s all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway.  (Modern Quotes) There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system.  (Modern Quotes) In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.  (Modern Quotes) Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.  (Modern Quotes) The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.  (Modern Quotes) The Met is such a powerful place for me because it’s a natural connection between the ancient world and the modern world. And when you’re dealing with ancient mythology, trying to put a modern spin on it, you really can’t do much better than to call on the Met.  (Modern Quotes) Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.  (Modern Quotes) The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.  (Modern Quotes) Elixir’ means magical potion, so I wanted to depict the kind of bottle that was used in ancient times, but that looked modern and chic as well. I also wanted it to have a golden tint to evoke the memories of sands and sunsets.  (Modern Quotes) Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!  (Modern Quotes) The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.  (Modern Quotes) I’ll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes from without. We need the guidance of both ancient wisdom and modern science to get the balance right.  (Modern Quotes) He challenge is finding the modern conduit for the audience, having fun and really looking at the duality of this particular character, that is both devil and angel, and on the cusp of losing control of the pagan background, to this newfangled religion called Christianity. There’s a great backdrop there, and just a whole dark side with the magic.  (Modern Quotes) In some places, there’s the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there’s the notion of Allah. The Western, multireligious modern society is some kind of a challenge to this. These, I feel, are the main causes [for terrorism], and, when combined with lots of anger and frustration, cause a huge amount of hate.  (Modern Quotes) I was brought up to understand Darwin’s theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil.  (Modern Quotes) The vast preponderance of evidence in modern epidemiology shows that those who eat more whole plant foods and fewer animal products and processed foods have lower rates of chronic disease and longer lifespans.  (Modern Quotes) Most modern Indians don’t stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India’s animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement.  (Modern Quotes) The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.  (Modern Quotes) If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.  (Modern Quotes) Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.  (Modern Quotes)
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