“Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows.” ShouldKindWaterCommunityEnvironmentModernLandCenturyAwarenessCreaturesProgramDestructionBasesRelationSpeciesFocusedUselessPreservesThreadFabricEcologyConservation20th CenturyEcologicalLiving Creatures Author:Rachel Carson
“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.” WorldNeedsBelieveChristianCommunityChurchJourneyModernAdultsProgramCriticismCatholicEpicEngagingVividModern WorldUrgentThoroughChurch History Author:Charles J. Chaput
“My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.” DealsModernFoolDiseaseProgramModern Life Author:Bruce Barton
“The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now is being called upon to do grown-up things, like earn a living and establish permanent roots in space.” JoySpaceGrowingModernChildhoodProgramRootsCrisisPermanentMaturityModern LifeSpace ProgramPrecocious Author:John Noble Wilford
“The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.” PeopleWayCertainPoorLevelsModernProgramPaidIncomeWelfareOrganizedProductiveEarningPoor PeopleModern LifeWelfare Programs Author:Thomas Sowell
“Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.” HumorFunnyModernDangerousComputerProgramHorseUselessOver YouSoftwareWormsVirusesMicrosoftSwampsCyberspaceTrojansTrojan HorseFestering Author:Dave Barry
“The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I believe that in a democratic, civilized society none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation. We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not cut them.” PeopleNeedsShouldBelieveCountryStatesI BelieveSocialUnitedPovertyUnited StatesCuttingModernSecurityProgramIncreaseDemocraticHungryOur CountryCivilizedNutritionDesperationSocial SecurityFundingCivilized SocietyModern History Author:Bernie Sanders
“What Batman is saying is that, "I want to try something new that's more about this era and this moment." And I do think that it speaks to a modern take [as opposed] to a 90s take or a 2000s take being maybe the older program about having a sidekick.” ThinkingWantTryingMomentsSpeakModernProgramErasSomething NewSidekicks Author:Scott Snyder
“We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. That understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.” GivingYearsWould BeRunningTogetherDesireUnderstandingNaturalDecisionModernProductsHolyConversationProgramDancingBillionsCellsAspirationDecision MakingChemicalsFabricMaking LoveSelectionHighwaysParallelsFluidMoleculesNatural SelectionModern ScienceComing TogetherAlgorithmsNuminous Author:David Eagleman
“Smokers in our culture are hated and despised. Smokers, people look down on 'em, don't want anything to do with them. Smokers are really the modern incarnation of evil, and yet smokers, because of all the taxes they are paying, are funding most of the children's health care programs the federal government has.” PeopleCareCultureEvilModernTaxesProgramHealth CareHatedIncarnation Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Balanced, sensible nutrition: eat food, not too much, mostly plants, a healthy diet ala Michael Pollan, modern physical activity on a daily basis, modest weight loss - translated into a 58% reduction in the occurrence of diabetes. A clear indication of the power of lifestyle over health. The challenge now is the development of the community-based programs that will translate what we learned in the diabetes prevention program and put it to work in every town in America.” ChallengesLossModernHealthyProgramPlantLifestyleSensibleNutritionTranslateModestWeight LossDiabetesHealthy Diet Author:David Katz
“Many people don't know that you don't spend 10 minutes without using a satellite. Or that agriculture is managed from space. Banking, too. The space program is like our airports and highways. It's not a luxury. It's part of the fabric of the modern world.” PeopleWorldModernProgram Author:David Saint-Jacques
“Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.” LongMovingModernProgramInnovationRenewalFrontiersFacilityLaboratoryModern ScienceMoved On Author:Burton Richter
“Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?” YearsDoeJobsSoundEnvironmentModernMilitaryTrainingResearchProgramSpendingMedicalBillionsWorthwhileHousingOutrageousDisparityModern TimesMedical ResearchHead StartJob TrainingMilitary SpendingAmtrak Author:Dale Bumpers
“A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.” YearsMeanBookMomentsHappensMovingWaitingModernTelevisionCommunicationNeededProgramAvailableMeans Of Communication Author:Joseph Wood Krutch
“The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps. If you look at China, they’re in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security…they don’t have the modern welfare state and China’s growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they’d be gone.” IfsLooksDifferentStatesSituationGoneGrowingModernSecurityProgramChinaWelfareRetirementStampsWelfare StateFood StampsGreat SocietyLbj Author:Michele Bachmann