“Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they not traversed the seas And come infected back, Why, think of all the luxuries That modern life would lack.” ThinkingMenSeaModernLuxuryFeaturesModern LifeVirusesColumbus Author:Richard Wilbur
“For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern depersonalization and anxiety.” RunningModernAnxietyStandardsMachinesFeaturesDepersonalization Author:Charles Eisenstein
“The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.” MenWorldHas BeensDifferentCultureModernTalesNarrativeDawnFeaturesThemeFairyFairy TaleTimelessModern WorldEscapismDifferent CulturesPoignancy Author:Lily Cole
“All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.” PeopleShouldLawPoliticalPartyModernDevelopmentOrganizationConstitutionFeaturesExceptionPolitical PartiesDefiningPolitical Systems Author:Wen Jiabao
“A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.” FeelsWholeTodayFoundMillionsRichModernOne DayBoxesBarsFeaturesMaryCandyJaneModern LifeDimesSidewalkCandy BarMary Jane Author:Russell Baker
“The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.” PeopleMenArtTwoWarNamesCommonModernConvincedSocialismPostsFeaturesSocialistOrthodoxyBourgeoisCommon ManModern ArtSnobberyPost War Author:Roger Scruton
“One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods is the deliberation with which Archimedes approaches the solution of any one of his main problems.” ProblemModernApproachSolutionsMethodFeaturesMathematicianImpressAccustomedSecuredDeliberationGeneralities Book:The Works of Archimedes Source: The Works of Archimedes
“We made four feature films with Sherwood Baptist. The wonderful thing was the church (members) volunteered. It was an awesome atmosphere of attitudes. The hard part was (that) all four of the first feature films we made take place in modern-day Albany, Georgia. We know that not all of our films going to be (set in) modern-day Albany, Georgia.” KnowsFirstsMadeHardFilmChurchAttitudeFourWonderfulModernMembersAtmosphereFeaturesWonderful ThingsGeorgiaBaptistsModern DayChurch MembersAlbany Author:Alex Kendrick
“One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.” GivingPastProcessModernFeaturesModern Society Book:Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy Source: Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy
“Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.” KnowsFirstsTwoPowerfulModernEssentialsIronyFeaturesMost PowerfulModern LifeMelodramaUnderstatement Author:Stefan Kanfer