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"And love is two misfortunes which together happiness are.(Et l’amour, c’est deux malheurs Qui ensemble font un bonheur)
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"A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic." »Aldous Huxley
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"The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet." »Jeremy Rifkin
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"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated." »Ellen Glasgow
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"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern
that it will not someday be antiquated." »Ellen Glasgow
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"But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason." »Ernest Hemingway
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"The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon." »Amy Vanderbilt
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"Debts are the modern day chains that keep us enslaved." »William Lander
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"The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about." »George Santayana
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"It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it." »Ronald Knox
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"The modern definition of "racist" is "someone who is winning an argument with a liberal" »Peter Brimelow, National Review (2/1/93)
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"Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life." »Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
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"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them." »Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
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"Walking is the world's oldest exercise and todays modern medicine" »Johnny Wowk
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better." »George Santayana
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better." »George Santayana
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"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before." »Edith Wharton
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"We must never forget, that under modern conditions of life, science, and technology. All war has been greatly brutalized, and that no one who joins in it, even in self-defense, can escape becoming also in a measure brutalized. modern war cannot be limited in its destructive method and the inevitable debasement of all participants… A fair scrutiny of the last two World Wars makes clear the steady intensification of the weapons and methods employed by both, the aggressors and the victors. In order to defeat the Japanese aggression, we were forced, as Admiral Nimitz has stated, to employ a technique of unrestricted warfare, not unlike that which 25 years ago was the proximate cause of our entry into World War I. In the use of strategic air power the Allies took the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Germany and Japan…. We as well as our enemies have contributed to the proof that the central moral problem is war and not its methods, and that a continuance of war will in all probability end with the destruction of our civilization." »Henry Stimson
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"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf." »Bertrand Russell
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"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society." »Vince Lombardi
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"I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers." »Albert Camus
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"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us." »Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
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"One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us." »Kurt Vonnegut
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"There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others." »Marilyn Ferguson
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"In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress." »Charles W. Eliot
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"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." »Albert Einstein, "Autobiographical Notes"
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"modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it." »Vaclav Havel
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"I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin." »George Wither
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