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"Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism."
"Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces."
"Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp."
"I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman."
"Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health."
"Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing."
"Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better."
"Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science."
"He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well."
"Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being."
"Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view."
"If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals."
"The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition."
"Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished."
"To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power."
"My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding."
"The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story."
"Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all."
"As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art."
"I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world."
