"The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists."
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"There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music."
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"In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood."
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"London is a modern Babylon."
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"The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods."
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"The theory of modern education is that you need a general education before you specialize. And I think to some extent, before you're going to be a great stock picker, you need some general education."
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"Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists."
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"The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea."
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"Greed has no boundaries"
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"Modern man has lost the option of silence."
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"Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners."
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"The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them."
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"The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value."
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"I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music."
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"To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it."
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"I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern."
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"You lose only the things you have"
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"See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare."
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"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."
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"In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization."
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