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Tag Name "Modern" (2569)

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The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy.
Richard V. Allen
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.
Ed Simons
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
William Beveridge
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Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom.
G. Edward Griffin
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In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.
Richard M. Nixon
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Donald Trump is the most dangerous person to run for president in the modern history of America.
Hillary Clinton
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To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.
Taner Edis
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Modern cars I don't like so much.
Amber Heard
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You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.
Geraldine Brooks
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I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.
Mitch Horowitz
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Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.
Anthony Daniels
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Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the New England idea-could no longer serve.
Alfred Kazin
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Newton's great generalization, which he called the third law of motion, was that Action and reaction are always equal to each other and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.
Phillips Brooks
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Are you fat because you're a lesbian, or are you a lesbian because you're fat?
Rosie O'Donnell
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No president in modern times has come to power with less political experience or less managerial experience. On the other hand, no president has come to power with a clearer record of political extremism. As senator, Barack Obama had the most left-wing voting record in the Senate. . . .
Bob Tyrrell
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The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.
LeBron James
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The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.
Theodor Haecker
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After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.
Lion Feuchtwanger
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The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
Robert Penn Warren
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I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.
Henry Cavill
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Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.
Vannevar Bush
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Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.
Charles James Fox
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