“Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.” ChildrenJobsLastsParentClassEconomyModernMiddleBuildingUnderstoodOur ChildrenInvestmentMiddle ClassGrandparentBillionaireRebuildingParents And Grandparents Author:Martin O'Malley
“Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.” WantMadeLastsSoundRecordsModernSoftwareTailsChasingIdenticalGearsPlugs Author:Dweezil Zappa
“Exposed! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit and paranoid power. From the murky waters of New Orleans to the scarred psyches of our own image-obsessed existence, Exposed! is the last headline we get to read before reality comes tumbling down.” RealityLightLastsWaterExistenceModernHorrorShiningWitObsessedWickedReportsExposedFearfulHarshNew OrleansHeadlinesParanoidModern SocietyPsychTumblingFrontlineTumbling DownMurky Water Author:Jeremy Robert Johnson
“Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.” PhilosophyLastsPartyBehindsClassStruggleFailingModernCriticismTendenciesIdeologyAnalysisModern SocietyScholasticism Author:Vladimir Lenin
“The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life.” PeopleMenWorldWantRealLastsGrowsWaterNaturalModernBuildingFlowArchitectureCirclesFakeReal WorldCircle Of LifeFake World Author:Eustace Conway
“Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.” YearsLastsViewsCommonModernCenturyDiseaseImpulseHistorianRulersLast YearInabilityMalfunctionRichard Ii Author:Barbara Tuchman
“Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.” FirstsStillsStoriesLastsCoursesModernTricksDetectivesDetective Stories Author:Rex Stout
“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
“Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200 years was possible due to the fact that the growth of scientific knowledge is exponential; that is, its rate of expansion is proportional to how much is already known. The more we know, the faster we can know more. For example, we have amassed more knowledge since World War II than all the knowledge amassed in our 2-million-year evolution on this planet. In fact, the amount of knowledge that our scientists gain doubles approximately every 10 to 20 years.” KnowsWorldYearsHumansWarFactsLastsGrowthKnownMillionsModernExamplePlanetsEvolutionAmountCivilizationGainsScientistRateDuesFasterWar Of The WorldsClimbsWorld War IiWorld War IExpansionRapidsScientific KnowledgeMore KnowledgeModern Civilization Author:Michio Kaku
“Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.” PeopleUseFeelingsPainLastsPartyEmotionModernDeeperDivorceLawyerVersionsReleaseTortureScarPrimitiveWoundedMedievalClawsModern SocietyDivorce Lawyers Book:Up Till Now Source: Up Till Now
“Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, Im very fortunate.” LastsModernGratitudeFortunateExhibitsAristocracy Author:James Ransone
“The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to mars in the grip of a demon who won't let you go. Read this book, savor the language-it's the last-and the most compelling word in thrillers.” IfsFeelsBookLastsLanguageNovelModernCrimeDemonCompellingMarsThrillersLetting You GoMilieuCrime Novels Author:James Ellroy
“[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us, if we don't find any sympathy or pleasure, for example, in a modern painting, are likely to blame our own ignorance of the history and theory of painting. But nobody pretends to like a bad comic strip. Such harshness is necessary for any real truth to surface, I think, and for art to really contribute anything to life. Though I don't know. I could be wrong.” IfsThinkingKnowsArtRealLastsPleasureModernHavensHonestyExampleIgnorancePaintingTheoryReaderBlameResponseSurfaceGenuineComicComic StripsHarshnessReal Truth Author:Chris Ware
“The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.” MindHas BeensMadeSeemsHappensLastsPastRomanceCertainTurnsLearningHappenedModernSpecialEasierRegardTerrorDecadesReliefFatigueCultivation Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.” FirstsLastsHumanityCultureModernLowsScalesMidstTribesContinuityUnbrokenTransmissionModern CultureAnimism Book:Primitive Culture Source: Primitive Culture
“I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, before the disease mounted its last attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern version of the "Brompton cocktail" some helpful medic could supply. And with Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death.” LifeHomeHandsLastsDiesMy OwnModernDiseaseVersionsShakesChairsHelpfulTake MeLiving My LifeLawnsCocktailsLife DeathIpodsAlzheimerAlzheimer'sBrandyMedics Author:Terry Pratchett
“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.” ThinkingYearsBelieveMeanReasonProblemMightActionLastsDifficultEconomyEconomicModernCostMajorsHundredOppositesScientistClimateClimate ChangeReactionsAtmosphereCarbonPhysicistConsensusPumpsStaggeringCarbon DioxideFreemanUndoingGreat ScientistMajor Problems Author:Charles Krauthammer
“All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.” LooksImportantTodayLastsPoliticalTermModernCenturyStyleStructureArchitectureIdeologySignificanceSovietNaziPackagesPolitical SystemsColossalLandmarksSubservientStalinismConstructivism Author:Rem Koolhaas
“The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.” PeopleFactsLastsYoungUniverseOne ThingModernCenturyUnderstoodLitSpecialists Author:Isaac Asimov
“Larousse Gastronomique has always been the first and last word on classic European techniques and recipes. I love that it has expanded its reach to cover world cuisines and modern culinary innovations, making it more indispensable than ever.” WorldFirstsLastsModernInnovationTechniqueClassicCulinaryIndispensableRecipesLast WordsCuisineFirsts And Lasts Author:Marcus Samuelsson
“The ’60s was the last time when large groups of people in the West searched for alternative modes of being. In a society like India’s, which is still not fully modern or totally organized, and has a great deal of tolerance for otherness in general, they find the cultural license to try other things, to be whatever they want to be.” PeopleWantTryingLastsDealsGroupsModernIndiaWestToleranceAlternativesOrganizedLast TimeLicenseOthernessLarge Groups Author:Pankaj Mishra
“If there's one thing that the Web has changed about modern communication, it's that we've at long last done away with the archaic idea that publishing is the private playground of people who have ideas, experiences, and opinions.” PeopleIfsLongIdeasDoneLastsOpinionOne ThingModernChangedCommunicationPublishingPlaygroundsModern Communication Author:Lore Sjoberg
“Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared with the artistic and skillful portraits made in later days... Here was a photograph that at one time had been the last word, a very modern portrait... Today it is just a part of cultural history. The small yellowed surface has acquired depth, an admonishing perspective. We hold in our hand a symbol of the structure and ideology of an epoch.” MadeStillsHandsSeemsTodayLastsHouseSimpleModernPerspectiveWallStructureDepthPhotographSurfaceIdeologySymbolsArtisticOne TimePortraitsLast WordsHere And ThereFadedSkillfulEpochDaguerreotypes Author:Isak Dinesen