"Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!"
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"I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization."
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"Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age."
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"I would like to do something modern and possibly funny."
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"Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man."
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"Fatherlessness is a rot that is eating away at the modern soul."
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"The trumpet is a very violent instrument - probably one of the most archaic of all the modern instruments. It's physically really demanding: you have to stay in pretty good shape."
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"With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day."
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"Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth."
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"Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point."
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"To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it."
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"The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms."
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"I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics."
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"Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision."
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"We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables."
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"Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure."
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"In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities."
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"Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities."
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"A turning point in modern history."
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"Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man."
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