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“Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.”

Difficult Modern Subjects Absence Costumes Wretchedness

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.”

Form Difficult Interesting Modern Advertising Most Interesting Advertisements

Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925

“The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.”

Reason Poetry Difficult Wife Modern Poet Poetry Is Modern Poetry

Author:Wendy Cope

“The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.”

Want Long America Nations Difficult Cities Sun Modern Century Western Tales Warmth Southern Epic 20th Century Sweeping

Author:Tom Brokaw

“We think that we have to do so many things and it's unfortunate, entire modern society is besotted with the do-ables, we have to do this, we have to have a half-hour of yoga, an hour of meditation, 2 hours of this, and then 12 hours of work and non-stop electronic gadgets, gizmos etc. etc., and then go home and take care of the family, and then take the children to wherever, and what tends to happen is we do way too much. The society does way too much. One of the greatest things in healing is try for just one day to do nothing. Very difficult.”

“Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.”

Difficult Modern Reader Ancient

Author:Joanne Harris

“A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.”

Men May Doe Difficult Modern Admire Reform Sweeping Modern Man

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.”

Culture Difficult Black Modern Europe Admire Ancestor Splits Modern Life Inner Life Equilibrium Unstable African Culture

Author:Leopold Sedar Senghor

“I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of the last hundred years, who has studied the question, who believes quite the opposite. The reason transnational action is so difficult is because the major problem with climate change is, A, that there is no consensus, and, B, that the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.”

“From a Christian perspective, the answer to all of that is not power, as it is in the modern perspective. It's love. It's self-sacrifice. That's what love is all about. The marriage ceremony says it very well: sacrifice is difficult, but love can make it a joy.”

Wells Self Christian Joy Difficult Answers Love Is Sacrifice Modern Perspective Ceremony Self Sacrifice Marriage Ceremony

Author:Francis George

“Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.”

May Reality Difficult Modern Creating Financial Modern Day Financial Markets

Author:Paul Singer

“It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest purpose - contained in the psyche.”

Purpose Individual Difficult Modern Tasks Degradation

Book:2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

“I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.”

Knows Reading Difficult Know How Trouble Modern Contemporary Hebrew

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The entrance of the woman with equal rights into practical modern life, her new freedom, her finding herself side by side with men in the streets, offices, professions, factories, sports, and now even in political and military life, is one of those dissolutive phenomena in which, in most cases, it is difficult to perceive anything positive. In essence, all this is simply the renunciation of the woman's right to be a woman.”

“I grew up on Bach and Beethoven and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff. That's the only reason I'm thinking of going on.”

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Author:A. R. Rahman

“I like doing whatever interests me. It's a challenge for me to try to make good comics out of any genre I tackle. I trust my instincts in getting me through the more difficult genres for modern readers, like violent crime or horror stories.”

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Author:Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

“I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New York Times article on the subject of modern attitudes toward our slave-holding past, the writer noted that we all want to be from "innocent origins." I _know_ I'm not. Then again, I suspect most of us are not.”

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Author:Laura Lippman