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"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."
"A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside."
"We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not."
"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."
"It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling."
"What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment."
"What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern."
"The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts."
"Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune."
"In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin."
"Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph."
"Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum."
"The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything."
"Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society."
"Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely."
"Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation."
"You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself."
"The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it."
"Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth."
"One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is."
