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“I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a response to the trauma of modern Islam.”

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Author:Daniel Pipes

“In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.”

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Author:Theodor Adorno

“The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.”

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Author:Susan Faludi

“The most important thing that I think we've done this season is to show navy and gray in a very new way. Most men understand navy and gray as a navy blazer and a gray flannel trouser, but today, we're taking that very traditional color palette and putting it in a more modern shape.”

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Author:Joseph Abboud

“As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.”

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Author:Paul McCartney

“Alexander McQueen's designs are all about bringing contrasts together to create startling and beautiful clothes and I hope that by marrying traditional fabrics and lacework, with a modern structure and design we have created a beautiful dress for Catherine on her wedding day.”

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Author:Sarah Burton

“My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.”

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Author:David Guterson

“A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.”

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Author:Donnie Yen

“I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.”

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Author:Joe Nichols

“Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.”

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Author:Noah Feldman

“To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.”

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Author:Antonin Scalia

“The Court abandoned the traditional constitutional meaning of 'religion' as a single denomination or system of worship and instead substituted a new 'modern' concept which even now remains vague and nebulous, having changed several times in recent years.”

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Book:Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion

Source: Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion

“The new revolution in cooking can be viewed in two ways. One is that you can take any traditional food and apply modern techniques. The other approach is to create food that is quite different than anything that has existed before.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“There's no scientific definition. A hymn... is a song of praise to God. I think there were three real goals with our hymns that made them seem more in line with traditional classical hymn writing than with the modern worship movement and differentiate us slightly...”

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Author:Keith Getty

“I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.”

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Author:David Suchet

“I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.”

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Book:Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within

Source: Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within

“Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related. In the village, language and architecture and religion and work and family customs were consistent with one another, mutually explanatory and reinforcing. To grow into one implied a growth into others.”

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Book:Tradition and Revolution

Source: Tradition and Revolution