“I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up as they are amongst all the horrors of civilization. The 'daring' child who used to be common enough, is seldom met nowadays.” ThinkingChildrenEnoughUsedCommonModernCivilizationMetsHorrorUsed To BeNervesDaring Author:Muriel Wace
“The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old "laissez faire" school of political rights, and the widening has met popular approval.” PeopleHas BeensGovernmentSchoolPoliticalPrinciplesRightsModernOughtMetsAccomplishApprovalScopeLaissez FairePolitical Rights Author:William Howard Taft
“It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.” MenWorldHas BeensLeftAbilityModernMinutesPersonalityDevelopmentHigherMetsNormalAspectScientistPatientVanityObsessedEncountersEnterprisePortionsScholarAutonomyFragmentsExaggerationMorbidSufferersTechniciansPsychiatricHigher Learning Author:Richard M. Weaver
“I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.” ArtModernColorMetsMuseumsSupportiveModern Art Author:William Eggleston
“I have never met anyone who built a bomb shelter and felt protected by it. I have never met a modern military man who did not realize that military victory is a concept which became obsolete with the coming of the nuclear age, and most civilians realize this also. Wisdom demands that we stop preparing to wage a war which would eliminate mankind - and start preparing to eliminate the seeds of war.” MenWarAgeFeltRealizingModernMankindMilitaryVictoryMetsDemandConceptsBuiltSeedsNuclearBombsProtectedShelterPreparingCiviliansObsoleteMilitary ManBomb Shelters Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“Josh Gad and I have been friends since the time he auditioned for Modern Family. I directed the pilot for that, and that's how we met.” Has BeensModernMetsPilotsJoshModern Family Author:Josh Gad