“Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees.” MenDoeWarStatesLastsVisionModernTerribleCapitalismDestructionRelationEndureAvailableGuaranteesSacramentsModern ManInterpersonal Author:Kenneth Rexroth
“Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under examination; that this limit is set by the nature of the data themselves, and cannot be increased by any amount of ingenuity expended in their statistical examination: that the statistician's task, in fact, is limited to the extraction of the whole of the available information on any particular issue.” WholeFactsBodyIssuesModernInformationParticularAmountLimitsTasksNotionAvailableFamiliarDataStatisticsFiniteExaminationIngenuityStatisticianExtraction Author:Ronald Fisher
“Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. ... Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.” IfsWayHumansMightFormCasesModernProjectsStructureAvailableDrivenAgentsMake SenseDesperateImaginativeTheoreticalOrientationModern SocietyCompatible Author:Raymond Geuss
“Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.” SelfSocialCommunityMemoriesPracticeModernInformationConcernObviousAvailableTraditionalOrthodoxHolocaustPreservationContinuitySelf PreservationMembership Author:Noah Feldman
“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.” MightFoundModernDivineLateSummerBlindFruitCreatorAvailableUnexpectedSensationsAncestorEvidentSectionsHandfulOccasionalImpatienceDelightedGave UpBerriesSporadicLate Summer Book:The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
“We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.” PeopleMadeRealityDecisionModernBattleDemandWake UpResponsibleAvailableInsaneFormerOur TimeMakersAncestorIrresponsibleAxesArmamentDecision Makers Author:Thor Heyerdahl
“The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.” MeanLittlesDemocracyModernHighestIndependentElectionCrisisPressesProfoundAvailableCommodityFree MarketJudiciaryFree PressFree ElectionsIndependent Judiciary Author:Arundhati Roy
“...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no holds barred and with everything available and permissible - that would be modern art.” IfsThinkingArtWould BeFormSexModernAvailableHomosexualBisexualModern Art Author:Eve Arnold
“The modern wars are also omnipresent in our electronic media - to be cynical about it, we now have 24 hours of non-stop bloodshed available to us. The internet and real-time media reporting were integrated into daily life in Iraq.” WarRealHoursModernMediaInternetIraqAvailableDaily LifeCynicalIntegratedBloodshedNon StopModern WarElectronic Media Author:Dave Abrams
“All of which suggested literary translation, and Korean seemed a good bet - barely anything available in English, yet it was a modern, developed country, so the work had to be out there, plus the rarity would make it both easier to secure a student grant and more of a niche when it came to work.” CountryModernStudentsEasierAvailableSecurePlusGrantsTranslationsNicheKoreanRarityDeveloped Country Author:Deborah Smith