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“Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing - he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.”

Source: The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays

“We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.”

Men Self Age Given Force Powerful Modern Revolution Birth Fulfillment Most Powerful Rebellion Hemisphere Modern Age Self Fulfillment

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

“With all the blessings our modern age has given to us, let us not give up the things that promote the workings of the Holy Ghost.”

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Author:Neil L. Andersen

“Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.”

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Author:George F. Kennan

“The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.”

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Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.”

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Author:Larry Wall

“City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.”

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Author:Leon Trotsky

“In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.”

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Author:Jonathan Clements

“It seems to me that we spend most of our spiritual energies trying to explain why the God of Elijah, Samson, David, and Paul seems to have lost His muscle in our modern age. Did He grow tired of performing heroics? Did He wax feeble after all these years of running this whole universal show? Could it be true that God has really lost His muscle? Maybe it would be more accurate to say God lost His men.”

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Author:Eric Ludy

“In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.”

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Author:Paddy Ashdown

“The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire. . . . Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age.”

“Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.”

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Book:Moo

Source: Moo

“Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.”

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Author:Terry Eagleton

“Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.”

Mind Said Age Speak Modern Majority Modern Age

Author:Pete Waterman

“The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.”

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.”

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Author:Saul Bellow

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