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

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Author:Smiley Blanton

“The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.”

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Author:Maya Lin

“I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.”

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Author:Alain Badiou

“The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.”

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Author:Craig Shirley

“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.”

“The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.”

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Author:Richard Linklater

“There's no scientific definition. A hymn... is a song of praise to God. I think there were three real goals with our hymns that made them seem more in line with traditional classical hymn writing than with the modern worship movement and differentiate us slightly...”

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Author:Keith Getty

“Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a decisive value in itself.”

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Author:Gianni Vattimo

“I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.”

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Book:Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within

Source: Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within

“Modern life. Where are we running? Sometimes what we want is not always where we are... Are we alone? Is the real winter inside our hearts? We are all struggling for definition in a world that resists our increase.”

World Want Heart Real Sometimes Running Struggle Modern Increase Winter Definitions Modern Life

Author:Aziz Ansari

“Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.”

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Book:The history of photography: from 1839 to the present

Source: The history of photography: from 1839 to the present