"Furthermore, [Sigmund Freud] had a racial fixation on sex, a fixation sufficiently pronounced to cause it to infect contagiously all modern European stock."
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"I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now."
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"This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?"
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"Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it"
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"It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public."
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"In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you."
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"Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses."
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"Modern feminism cannot survive without victims."
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"I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience."
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"I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me."
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"Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount."
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"It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue."
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"So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal."
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"It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in."
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"Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation."
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"I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise."
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"This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them."
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"As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object."
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"In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood."
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"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."
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