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“Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.”

Worry Modern Anxiety Definitions Cures Plague

Author:Smiley Blanton

“The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.”

Way Secret Modern Morality Anxiety Ideals Roots Currents Terror Noble Russia Communism Consistent Soviet Dread Disguise Altruism Literal Embodiment Irrationality Soviet Russia

Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It

“For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern depersonalization and anxiety.”

Running Modern Anxiety Standards Machines Features Depersonalization

Author:Charles Eisenstein

“Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying; theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!”

Trying Causes Church Taken Modern Praying Anxiety Paid Deny Testament Emphasis New Testament Setups

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used tobe." But that doesn't mean the malaise and anxiety people feel about modern families are delusions, that everything would be fine if we would only realize that the past was not all it's cracked up to be. . . . Even if things were not always right in families of the past, it seems clear that some things have newly gone wrong.”

People Ifs Way Feels Mean Seems Would Be Past Used Realizing Gone Clear Modern Fine Anxiety Crisis Notion Delusion Nostalgic Cracked Flux Malaise Modern Family

Author:Stephanie Coontz

“As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general anxiety pushes in the direction of authority, not away from it.”

War Political Democracy Modern Movement Authority Anxiety Pressure Ancient Political Movements

Author:Robert Heilbroner

“The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is feasible.”

World Science Modern Particular Anxiety Mathematics Admire Application Anxious Theorems Culmination Apex

Author:George Polya

“Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general public looked upon relativity as indicative of the seemingly incomprehensible modern era, educated scientists despaired of ever understanding what Einstein had done, and political ideologues used the new theory to exploit public fears and anxieties-all of which opened a rift between science and the broader culture that continues to expand today.”

Done Today Science Political Used Culture Understanding Modern Theory Anxiety Concepts Scientist Familiar Educated Eras Exploits Relativity General Public Ideologues Rift Modern Era

Author:David C. Cassidy

“The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.”

Modern Subjects Anxiety Metaphor Speed Los Angeles Modern Life

Author:Edward Ruscha