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“Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.”

Mind Mean Action Individual Behinds Democracy Modern Capacity Independent Chaos Organs Associates Modern Life Emancipation Life Means

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924

“One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.”

Long Law Lawyer Modern Life

Author:Alexander Woollcott

“A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.”

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Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

“In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.”

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Book:Aims of Education

Source: Aims of Education

“A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.”

Men Feels Important Ten Modern Life Containing Telegrams

Book:The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

Source: The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

“Nobody is sicker than the man who is sick on his day off.”

Men He Man Sick Modern Life Days Off

Author:Charles E. McKenzie

“In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.”

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Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!”

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Author:Derek Jacobi