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“Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that.”

Mean Causes Born Natural Issues Modern Dying Birth Celebration Avoided Predictable Parts Of Life Modern Society Unspeakable Very Mean

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.”

Has Beens Art Used Born Modern Source Art Is Photographer Painter Modernism Copyright Modern Art Upheaval

Book:EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston

Source: EW:100: centennial essays in honor of Edward Weston

“O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife.”

Heart Born Clear Modern Strange Disease Sick Aim Wit Ran Divided Modern Life Sparkling Thames

Author:Matthew Arnold

“There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or he can deliberately accept his servitude. All three forms flourish in the modern world. Men are born and forced into slavery in Russia and her satellites states. Men in the free world invite slavery when they ask the government to provide complete security, when they surrender their freedom to the "Welfare State."”

“I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.”

House Born Attitude Modern Dying Life And Death Simplest

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.”

Born Modern Sociology Ardor

Author:Albion Woodbury Small

“I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born.”

Mind Art Culture Born Views Cities Modern Periods Architecture Capture Vienna

Author:Eric Kandel

“Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.”

Persons Born Liberty Share Modern Debt Usa Modern Life National Debt

Author:Francis Bacon

“Hamas was born to destroy. Hamas does not know how to build. I doubt they will be able to build a modern Palestinian state and hope their lies will be exposed to the Palestinian public.”

Knows Doe States Able Lying Born Know How Doubt Modern Exposed Palestinian Hamas

Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef

“Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.”

Art Desire Born Modern Modern Art Kitsch

Author:Roger Scruton

“I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.”

Thinking Men Years Has Beens Age Born Modern Traditional My Time

Author:David Suchet