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I've made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever.
Jacob Rees-Mogg /
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Pretence
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
Ian Hamilton Finlay / Poet
Men
Marijuana
Modern
Modern Man
Wee
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Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.
Stewart Udall / American Politician
Men
Modern
Modern Man
Needs
Precedence
Nature Man Will
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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
Frank A. Clark / Politician
Men
Money
Busy
Enjoy
Modern Man
Shopping
Earn
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Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Humiliated
Modern Man
Creature
Man Know More
Dares
Depressed
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Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
Robert Winston / Professor
Men
Instinct
Kind
Modern
Modern Man
Survives
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Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
Michael Leunig / Cartoonist
Advantage
Clever
Conscience
Empty
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Silence
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The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
Stephen Covey / Author
Men
Balance
Challenges
Modern
Modern Man
Significant
Struggle
Challenge
Faced
Question
Struggles
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The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.
Richard Flanagan / Novelist
Civilisation
Extraordinary
Modern Man
Existed
Reached
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I am actually a perfectly capable modern man who can cook, clean, wash, and find my way to places, but nobody believes it.
James May / Television Presenter
Modern Man
Believes
Perfectly
Wash
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
Vaclav Havel / Former President Of Czechoslovakia
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Hero
Modern
Modern Man
Tragedy
Own
Less
Bothers
Him
His
Meaning
Meaning Of
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We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.
Richard Leakey / Politician
Men
Connections
Light
Modern Man
Shed
Walking
Ancestors
Ape
Connection
Early
Puzzle
Upright
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I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
Alexander Herzen / Writer
Men
Absence
Feelings
Information
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Outlook
Passion
Horrified
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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
Elias Canetti / Novelist
Men
Add
Lice
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Drop
Limb
Oppose
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I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm happy to be a house husband but won't let my wife carry her own bag.
Ian Watson /
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Bag
Both Worlds
Worlds
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I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him.
Ridley Scott / Film Director
Interesting
Modern Man
Thinker
Demons
Drove
First Of All
Particularly
Phil
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I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.
Robin Day / Broadcaster
Gadgets
Machines
Modern Man
Dominated
Further
Tendency
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
Muhammad Iqbal / Philosopher
Men
Christianity
Fulfilled
Impossible
Modern Man
Psychology
Significance
According
Biological
Original
Mission
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
Vaclav Havel / Former President Of Czechoslovakia
Men
Absurdity
Hero
Impossible
Looks
Lowest
Modern Man
Over It
Descend
Avoid
Jump
Obviously
Spiral
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Modern man has a very abstract idea of what a wood is. I guess that if you stopped anyone on the street and asked them what a wood actually was, they would see it as a place where big trees grow.
Monty Don / Television Presenter
Abstract
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Wood
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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn / Novelist
Men
Consciousness
Easier
Elevation
Everyday
Everyday Life
Higher
Modern Man
Order
People
Relation
Life Religion Man
Alter
Life Religion Always
Forms
Towards
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Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular depiction of himself as a witless under-achiever, incapable of looking after himself or those around him.
James May / Television Presenter
Crisis
Depiction
Incapable
Modern Man
Refinement
Centuries
Popular
Pillar
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'To All The Boys' is one film amongst a couple other romantic comedies through the decades that promotes... I don't know what they're calling it. A modern man? A man that's more emotionally accessible and available and willing to communicate and actually care and nurture.
Noah Centineo /
Communicate
Decades
Modern Man
Nurture
Emotionally
Romantic Comedies
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We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.
Lewis Thomas / Physician
Men
Bird
Bubbles
Country
Delicate
Earth
Force
Fragile
Modern Man
Rising
Surface
Trouble
Detach
Lethal
Flights
Himself
Pond
Scenario
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The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man.
Pope Paul Vi /
Charity
Detachment
Difficulty
Heart
Holiness
Humility
Mark
Modern
Modern Man
Obedience
Poor
Prayer
Self Sacrifice
Simplicity
Spirit
Touching
Life Heart Man
Calls
Expects
Word
Lowly
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The well-known inspiration for 'Ulysses' is made clear by the title itself: Joyce's novel is based on Homer's 'Odyssey', under the ever-fascinating premise that all of Odysseus' extraordinary adventures can be experienced by a modern man in a single day, provided that the writing consists of his mental activity.
Alvaro Enrigue /
Extraordinary
Joyce
Modern Man
Odyssey
Ulysses
Adventures
Consists
Experienced
Homer
Premise
Provided
Single Day
Title
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Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.
Octavio Paz / Poet
Technology
Environment
Horizon
Modern Man
Negation
Radical
Neutral
Time Nature Work
Bridge
Changes
Nature Time Work
Course
Decisive
Nature Work Time
Manner
Same Time
Sterile
Throws
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