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“A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.”

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“[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to be free. In the modern world, we should recall the Athenians' dire fate whenever we confront demands for increased state paternalism.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.”

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Author:Jeffrey Toobin

“A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“I have great love and respect for Russian history and culture. But the world is changing and Russia is too. Russia is part of the modern world, not the world of the past but the modern world. And I believe it has an even greater future than some other countries that can't take care of their young people, of the new generations, of their children, and believe that they can just let things slide.”

“I'm an adult and I know what power means in the modern world. In the modern world, power is mainly defined by such factors as the economy, defence and cultural influence. I believe that in terms of defence, Russia is without any doubt one of the leaders because we are a nuclear power and our nuclear weapons are perhaps the best in the world.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use are means to the individual's liberation. We do not perceive how a man may be armed and at the same time bereft of his freedom.”

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Book:A History of Warfare

Source: A History of Warfare

“No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.”

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Book:Cleopatra: A Life

Source: Cleopatra: A Life

“Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.”

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Book:Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development

Source: Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development

“Epic: A Journey Through Church History fills an urgent need for adult Catholics to recover their history as a believing community, debunk false criticisms of their Church, and understand the Christian underpinnings of the modern world. This is a vivid, thorough and engaging program. I heartily recommend it.”

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Author:Charles J. Chaput

“They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of influence. Such is the way in which historical forces operate: the give and take between nations, as between cultures, is no simple exchange”

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Author:Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

“Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.”

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Author:Ben Goldacre

“Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.”

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Author:George Will

“God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!”

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Author:Caryll Houselander

“The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.”

Source: The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary

“The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than do the whites. They cannot be kept for ever in slavery, since the tendencies of the modern world run strongly the other way. They cannot be absorbed into the white population, for the whites will not intermarry with them, not even in the North where they have been free for two generations. Once freed, they would be more dangerous than now, because they would not long submit to be debarred from political rights. A terrible struggle would ensue.”

“The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and with rationalism in the modern world. Now the church must engage with the emergence of a postmodern, post- Christian, neo-pagan world.”

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Author:Robert E. Webber

“I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world.”

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Author:Viktoria Modesta

“We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university.”

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Author:Roger Revelle

“Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.”

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Author:Robert Harris

“Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.”

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Author:Andrew Dominik

“The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.”

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Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.”

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Author:Charles William Eliot

“Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.”

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Author:Charles William Eliot

“I think in the modern world we really need to have movie theaters or places we can go in and rejuvenate ourselves. I think we'll have less problems with our souls and our health. I do that in my life, and I feel healthy and happy. I need those hours in the darkness where I used to spend time as a kid, sitting in a little closet in the darkness, listening to AM radio, having glowing paint that I illuminated, just sitting there, dreaming about anything, not being disturbed for an hour or two, just alone in the dark. I'm still that little boy in my brain.”

“The unknown is the most frightening and mysterious thing, especially in the modern world where we can practically Google anything and find out the back story. I think to have that element of mystery it almost creates a frustration that is closer to real life.”

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Author:Larry Fessenden

“The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers and advances and innovations that blow our minds. But we have soul, and spirit, and consciousness, and the modern world hasn't done so well at helping us name and understand what it means to be thriving and fully alive with a full heart.”

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Author:Rob Bell

“Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.”

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Author:Rob Bell

“I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.”

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Author:Rob Bell

“Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that.”

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Author:Philip Pullman

“The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential character than of its dangers, and that is why I think of it as being an expression of transcendence.”

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Author:Talal Asad

“Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.”

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Author:Old Tom Morris

“For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.”

“Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world.”

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Author:Dan Brown

“Information is the religion of the modern world.”

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Book:The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work

Source: The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work

“In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.”

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Author:Arthur Henderson

“The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and it's not democratic. And it will fall just like communism fell. The richest 1 percent now own 50 percent of the wealth. It didn't use to be that way. The average CEO 20 years ago made 20 times as much as the average employee. Now they make 212 times as much.”

“Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.”

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Author:Paul Johnson

“Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.”

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Book:The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions

Source: The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions

“In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.”

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Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.”

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

“We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.”

“One of the problems of our modern world is that there's a lot of things to work through, but, at some point, everybody should take a pause from that and make something, so that it's not just all one-way traffic.”

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Author:Jarvis Cocker

“I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.”

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Author:Iris Apfel

“I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.”

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Author:Terry Gilliam

“Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.”

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Author:Pete Townshend

“I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.”

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Author:Pete Townshend

“In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion, rockets to the moon, atomic energy man's need for affirmation of his biology has become that much more intense.”

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Book:SOUL ON ICE

Source: SOUL ON ICE

“In a modern world where a majority of women say, 'I don't need you, I've got my money, I've got my stuff,' I say, 'I desperately need men.' My whole album is a tribute to men. It takes a man in me to tell you that I'm on my knees for men.”

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Author:Lou Doillon

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