"Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence."
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"It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise."
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"Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did."
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"Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels."
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"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."
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"It is better to imitate ancient than modern work."
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"Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively."
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"There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings."
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"My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing."
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"Stained glass enabled the modern world."
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"No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power."
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"Evolution: The Modern Synthesis."
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"Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse."
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"Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for."
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"One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be."
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"If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence."
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"The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death"
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"Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche."
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"Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science."
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"Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt."
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