"Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities."
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"The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe."
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"Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music."
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"A 'well regulated militia' was thus one that was well-trained and equipped, not one that was 'well-regulated' in the modern sense of being subjected to numerous government prohibitions and restrictions."
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"Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable."
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"I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances."
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"A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age."
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"I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work."
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"China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world."
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"When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase."
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"Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati."
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"The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free."
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"The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else."
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"There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on."
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"The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting."
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"The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence."
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"The modern masters promise very little"
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