A Quotes
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“A model is, and must be, unrealistic in the sense in which the world is most commonly used. Nevertheless, and in a sense paradoxically if it is a good model it provides the key to understanding reality.”
Source: Le capitalisme monopoliste
“A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.”
“A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.”
“A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.”
“A model’s opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera.”
“A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler”
“A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it.”
“A model whose referential is lost’ is therefore Baudrillard’s definition of an operation primarily meant to deterritorialize culture and knowledge via architecture (Baudrillard, 1994: 54).”
Source: Baudrillard for Architects
“A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro depth is limitless: movement can stretch to infinity.”
“A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.”
Source: The Crow's Nest
“A moderate amount of stress - not too much, not too little - generally means you understand the problem and are psychologically stoked to solve it. Moderate stress yields the best, most optimum performance in a crisis.”
“A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition
“A moderately bad man knows he is not very good; a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.”
“A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.”
“A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.”
“A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.”
“A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.”
“a modern-day conservator of Monticello says that Woodmont Jefferson as an amateur architect rather than a professional was that he made things more complicated than they needed to be for any practical purpose.”
Source: At Home: A Short History of Private Life
“A modern-day Thisbe, Bridget pressed her face and hands against the wall, possibly hoping that the blocks and paint between them would melt away.”
Source: Captive
“A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations.”
Source: Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
“A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.”
“A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them.”
“A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous wills while the soul is left in cold desolate misery. What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium. Physical labor may be painful, but it is not degrading as such. It is not art; it is not science; it is something else, possessing an exactly equal value with art and science, for it provides an equal opportunity to reach the impersonal stage of attention.”
Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings
“A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.”
Source: The Mirror of the Sea
“A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.”
Source: Plays
“A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.”
“A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.”
“A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody guzzles these popular poisons. The stench of chemicals offends the nose, while tranquillizers substitute for quietness.”
“A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.”
“A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly empty. It is not the books that go out that worry him. It is the stay-at-home volumes that perplex and depress him.”
“A modern man, I do not make undue connections though my heart wrenches daily against the unknowable, almighty throb and heave of the universe against my skin that sings a song for which we haven't quite found the words.”
“A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.”
“A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist”
“A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.”
Source: Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy
“A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.”
“A modern Mystic is a person who is called to live, express, and fulfill the destiny of their Soul.”
“A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.”
“A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.”
“A modern school where football is taught.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“A modern slaughterhouse is a disassembly line of conveyors and shackles, bolt guns and electric prods, hooks and hoists. Animals arrive in one piece, breathing and fearing, only to be systematically stunned, hung, slashed, skinned, drawn and dismembered into a sum of tradable parts.”
“A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming blow from the air.”
“A modern teacher educates children to value their emotions.”
“A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context.”
“A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.”
“A modern Woman is not necessarily...s omeone who just buys expensive stuff...
...a modern Woman is someone who buys intelligently.”
“A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.”
“A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.”
“A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.”