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Tag Name "Modern" (2569)

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Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
Le Corbusier
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Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it.
John F. Kennedy
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Communism is something that comes from the classics of Marxism that talked of a modern society we should aspire to. One that is truly fair where relations of monetary exchange are not the priority but rather one where peoples' needs could be satisfied.
Alejandro Castro Espin
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The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors get in return for the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars they funnel to the politicians?
William Greider
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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Aleister Crowley
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I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
William Hague
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Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.
Aldous Huxley
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Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.
Chris Matthews
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Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.
Aldous Huxley
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The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.
Jacob Braude
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In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.
Emma Goldman
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The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.
Aldis Hodge
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Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.
Albion Woodbury Small
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Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.
Albion Woodbury Small
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I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
William Howard Taft
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The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.
William Howard Taft
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I have a passion for modern and contemporary art.
Delphine Arnault
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So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.
William J. Clinton
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... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.
Albert Renger-Patzsch
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You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.
William J. Clinton
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Is it our task to force the biblical doctrine of God to answer to modern culture, or (is it our task) to address modern culture with the biblical doctrine of God? If modern culture-or any culture-establishes the baseline for the doctrine of God, such a doctrine will certainly bear little resemblance to the God of the Bible.
Albert Mohler
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Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
Albert J. Nock
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
William James
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Apparently modern financial regulators are vastly more sophisticated than we were as financial regulators 25 years ago - because we had never figured out that the key to financial stability was leaving felons in charge of the largest financial institutions in the world.
William K. Black
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