"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly."
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"The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized."
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"Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management"
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"All art is bad, but modern art is the worst."
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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
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"Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us."
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"You are born modern, you do not become so."
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"When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable."
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"In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions."
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"Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator."
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"Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth."
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"Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic."
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"Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism."
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"I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women."
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"Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s."
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"In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers , is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power."
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"Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor."
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"Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me."
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"It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results."
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"This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art."
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